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<blockquote data-quote="Alexandra100" data-source="post: 1551415" data-attributes="member: 429870"><p>Cherry, what an interesting post. The main problem with the CPAP machine is finding a mask that is half-way comfortable. It has to be tight enough on the face to stop lots of air leaking out, which can feel dreadful. There are many different designs of mask. I am currently on my 2nd. I am gradually getting better at tightening the various straps just enough and sometimes I sleep through in it, but sometimes I wake up after maybe 90 minutes and feel I can't bear the mask on another second. Another problem is that my machine is actually a very sophisticated version of CPAP which in theory can detect when I stop breathing and pump me full of air to get me going again. Unfortunately is quite often gets this wrong, so that when I am peacably trying to get to sleep it will suddenly blast me with a current of air strong enough to puff out my cheeks. Obviously once that starts there is no chance of my gettting to sleep, so I have to abandon. Since my HbA1C test I am even more motivated to struggle on with the machine, as it usually greatly reduces the number of "events" and I am convinced they are at the very least contributing to my blood glucose problems.</p><p></p><p>No, the 41 could be 41 all the time or any mixture of peaks and troughs. Hence for me the attraction of home testing. You are right, a 24/7 monitor would be brilliant, but I can't imagine the NHS giving me one, especially as I am officially pre-pre-diabetic (though I would be classed as pre-diabetic in America.) Still I could be wrong. After all, the ventilator I have on loan costs, they tell me, £3-4000! (I sometimes worry a burglar might have it away.) And the mask they threw away because it was mashing up my nose cost about £100. </p><p></p><p>I plan to record my tests for a while and then see my GP but I fear that unless they are very high I will be brushed off as "worried well", especially given my age. There is a school of thought that aged diabetrics should just be left to enjoy life in the hopes that by the time the diabetic complications catch up with them they will be dead from something else!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alexandra100, post: 1551415, member: 429870"] Cherry, what an interesting post. The main problem with the CPAP machine is finding a mask that is half-way comfortable. It has to be tight enough on the face to stop lots of air leaking out, which can feel dreadful. There are many different designs of mask. I am currently on my 2nd. I am gradually getting better at tightening the various straps just enough and sometimes I sleep through in it, but sometimes I wake up after maybe 90 minutes and feel I can't bear the mask on another second. Another problem is that my machine is actually a very sophisticated version of CPAP which in theory can detect when I stop breathing and pump me full of air to get me going again. Unfortunately is quite often gets this wrong, so that when I am peacably trying to get to sleep it will suddenly blast me with a current of air strong enough to puff out my cheeks. Obviously once that starts there is no chance of my gettting to sleep, so I have to abandon. Since my HbA1C test I am even more motivated to struggle on with the machine, as it usually greatly reduces the number of "events" and I am convinced they are at the very least contributing to my blood glucose problems. No, the 41 could be 41 all the time or any mixture of peaks and troughs. Hence for me the attraction of home testing. You are right, a 24/7 monitor would be brilliant, but I can't imagine the NHS giving me one, especially as I am officially pre-pre-diabetic (though I would be classed as pre-diabetic in America.) Still I could be wrong. After all, the ventilator I have on loan costs, they tell me, £3-4000! (I sometimes worry a burglar might have it away.) And the mask they threw away because it was mashing up my nose cost about £100. I plan to record my tests for a while and then see my GP but I fear that unless they are very high I will be brushed off as "worried well", especially given my age. There is a school of thought that aged diabetrics should just be left to enjoy life in the hopes that by the time the diabetic complications catch up with them they will be dead from something else! [/QUOTE]
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