About The CPAP Guide
A site for the several million people who were handed a machine, a pamphlet, and very little else.
Why this site exists
Getting diagnosed with sleep apnea is oddly lonely. You get a study result full of numbers nobody explains, a prescription, a machine from a supplier who has thirty minutes for you, and then you're on your own at 2am with a mask that leaks into your eye.
Search for help and you mostly find two things: retailer pages that want to sell you a machine, and clinical literature written for physicians. The middle — someone explaining, in normal language, what your AHI means or why your mouth is dry or whether that $300 sanitiser is worth it — barely exists. That gap is what this site is for.
How we work
We start from the guidelines and the regulators, not from a product catalogue. Every clinical claim is numbered and linked so you can check it yourself. Where the evidence is genuinely contested — and in sleep medicine a surprising amount of it is — we say so rather than picking whichever study sounds most quotable.
We also try to be honest about the limits of a website. We can explain what a titration study is; we cannot tell you what your pressure should be. Anything that touches your actual treatment belongs with your clinician, and we will keep saying so.
Read the editorial and medical review policy for the full process, and how we make money for the commercial side of it.
Who writes it
The CPAP Guide is written and edited by a small independent team, working from published guidance and the experience of people actually on therapy. We are not a medical practice and we are not owned by a device manufacturer or a supplier.
A note on bylines. This is a new site, and we are building out named authorship and clinical review as we go. Articles that have been read by a clinician say so by name. Articles that have not been reviewed say that too, in the byline, at the top — because the alternative is implying an authority we have not earned yet.
Get in touch
Corrections, questions, and "you got this wrong" emails are all welcome — contact us here.