Both are appreciated.Pugsy wrote:Thoughts on what? What you did or your doctor suggested?TyroneShoes wrote:Any thoughts?
There are arguments for and against either.
If you never hit your 12 maximum...it really doesn't matter that you use the 12 max and doctor was okay with 20 max.
Just because it can go there doesn't mean it will go there and if it never even goes to 12 cm it really becomes a moot point. The minimum pressure is the most critical setting anyway.
I found myself being wakened by the CO2 relief valve on the Swift FX NPs when pressure got higher, which was not often; maybe 3 times in the first 50 days.
But my reasoning was that the APAP goes there for probably a good reason, so if I cripple it back to a CPAP with straight 8, how is that better? So I brought it down below the level that woke me, but still allowed it to function within a smaller range as a APAP.
But then my reasoning has no basis in anything other than common sense. My Dr.s reasoning is based on the fact that he is a practicing neurologist with a fellowship in sleep studies. I probably should have deferred to his expertise. I see him in three weeks, and I will do a couple weeks at straight 8 to see how that goes.
AHI went to ~3 from ~5 after the pressure change. It has averaged ~1 for the last three nights, so I must be doing something right.