nice story.
the apneas being the real problem, the snoring probably not so much,
but how did your wife cope with it ?
i myself got it in this terrible time of winter 2021/2022. in the beginning, i may just have recognized osa.
it felt like drowning, i was repeatedly catapulted out of sleep and had fragmented dreams.
i wasn't able to get healthcare, there, till the system started to open up again in 2023.
after a sleep study, they gave me a jaw retainer, then (i had to wait for over a month).
they meant it good, wanting to see if the hypopnea stuff could somehow vanish when the osa is treated,
but unfortunately not and i had problems with it eating my teeth and making my jaw crackle while chewing.
after everything taking so long, the family equipped me with a machine in 2024.
i should have found apneaboard earlier, i should have tried to by a machine earlier,
although they might have been scarce earlier. even later we needed to wait about half a year
for a somewhat promising machine to emerge. and then it undertreaded my hypopnea.
mainly my breath and the pressure gets shallower and shallower and then i wake up.
another effect is that there is this forced breath, then nothing and then the next forced breath.
both makes my oxygen saturation slowly decline.
i will try to get the lumis 150 vpap st with the ivaps mode over the health system now.
i don't know how hard this will be, since i read in the forum about doctors going stepwise
from simpler to more advanced machines, even if the diagnosis is clear. i will see. i'd have to.
if someone could give me some helpful advice how to approach the doctors, i would be glad.
so much about my story.
for learning more about me,
one go down
my treatment threads.
the input fields of poll might not have been up while you answered,
so you would now be able to additionally click your 2 months or less,
for it to be counted in the survey, if you wish.
regarding the edit:
i don't know about the seals, service and the reset, but you could change the blower even yourself
and it would be probably about halfish the price, but you are on the safe side how you did it.
the other machine you got is the 11 series, true ? it has upsides and downsides,
it has a less solid stand, the motor of the air mini and there is this mic which many turn off (audio analysis).
on the other hand it has advanced blue-tooth connectivity. one could get cheaper wireless oximetry, then.
it has auto ramp for the ones who need it, a timezone-setting.
it's also servicing doctors and providers more. how do you like the machine ?