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    Quote Originally Posted by wetware1967 View Post
    just don't pass wind with your little buddy in there with you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wetware1967 View Post
    (just don't pass wind with your little buddy in there with you).
    How could I have missed that . . .

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    Depending on your brand of CPAP, there will be some sort of monitoring system for compliance. Most CPAP, BIPAP, and APAP machines have a card in them that can be taken to your pulmonologist to be analyzed. If you want accurate... this is the way! Explain to your doctor that you are experimenting with different "comfortable sleeping solutions" and ask them if he/she can give you the printout report of your sleep for a 10 day period. In that 10 day period, sleep the first half of it in your bed and the second in your hammock while ALSO hooked up to your CPAP inside or outside with an extension cord. The inside data will give you somewhat of a baseline, while the outside data will tell you of any improvement. Keep in mind, these machines are quite accurate depending on the type you have. Mine gives me 12 page reports for EACH NIGHT of sleep detailing the number of times my body TRIED to snore to the actual pressure it took to foil an apnea attack. I am fortunate in that I have a friend who designs sleep centers that gave me some of the software so I don't have to go to a pulmonologist to be able to take a peek at my data. If you are in the experimenting mood, it would be worth your while to try several of your favorite sleeping situations for a few nights and note the date you slept (for later correlation with the report). This way you have more objective data regarding what lessens your obstructive sleep apnea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danalex View Post
    Anybody here have sleep apnea and hang?

    I've read that having your head elevated can stop snooring because there is less pressure pulling down to close the throat muscles when they relax.

    Seems the hammock would be perfect for that.

    When I sleep in a bed without my breathing machine I wake up sweating.

    I've only spent a bit of time in my hammock but so far I haven't woken up sweating. Maybe it's helping??

    Since I live alone I haven't had anyone around this week to see if I'm snoring when asleep.

    Any ideas on this as I'd really like to camp without the machine and not wake up tired from fitfull, poor sleeps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doc B View Post
    Depending on your brand of CPAP, there will be some sort of monitoring system for compliance. Most CPAP, BIPAP, and APAP machines have a card in them that can be taken to your pulmonologist to be analyzed.
    Or, get a copy of your prescription, go online, and purchase the software and the reader to view these reports yourself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wetware1967 View Post
    Or, get a copy of your prescription, go online, and purchase the software and the reader to view these reports yourself.
    Absolutely! If you can find the software your script should not be needed to buy it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doc B View Post
    Depending on your brand of CPAP, there will be some sort of monitoring system for compliance.
    That may be true of machines being made now, but it was uncommon when I got my machine a decade ago (kudos to Resmed for making a machine that runs and runs and runs -- too bad their humidifiers fail). My machine doesn't have any kind of memory card I could take to my doctor.

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