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Message: <blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2892067" data-attributes="member: 7629">sorry but there are no substitutes for trying out different possible solutions. you could go to the most qualified dentist for an oral appliance and/or sleep doctor for a cpap or bipap (bilevel) machine .. then find out you cannot tolerate the oral appliance and/or cpap machine.this is why there are soooo many used $2,500 cpap/bipap machines for sale on Craigslist. perhaps that person actually cannot tolerate said device, but more likely that person didn't receive the after support needed to get into compliance. perhaps a different mask was needed, different pressures, a different machine and/or all of the above.the good news is technology is marching on .. with each generation of cpap machines getting smarter and smarter with auto titrating machines that will set intake and expiration pressures on the fly. free sophisticated tracking software like Sleepyhead with loads of data points to help dial in your settings and most importantly give feedback that your treatment is actually working or not, so you can take steps to fix.your first stop really should be a sleep doctor at a sleep lab. although a trend is for insurance companies to send home an auto titrating machine to see if you are able to stay in compliance. meaning one is able to use auto cpap machine for a set number of hours (4 hours?)that auto cpap machine will track all sorts of data like number of events per hour, intake pressures, expiration pressures, AHI (apnea-hypohnea index) central apnea index, etc.</blockquote>

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