When might REM occur in a 30 minute nap? This is where my knowledge sort of stops. And I am also under the notion as to me that higher pressures are more likely to produce REM sleep, and that one has to pass through the other stages of sleep to get to REM.HoseCrusher wrote:Based upon oximetery, 12 cm is better.
During your nap you never entered REM sleep. You recorded a Basal of 90% and had you drifted off to a deeper stage of sleep that would have dropped.
In any event, my own very limited interpretation of the oximetry report as to my 30 minute nap is that 10 CM is Sp02 baseline adequate and that I actually did go to sleep because my heart beat did drop down to the low 60's and stayed there. I also had the benefit of knowing that I had napped!
I should probably just go with the recommended pressure by two professionals, neither of whom are my two treating physicians. The recommendation was 12 cm and the TREATMENT BREAKDOWN TABLE as performed during the sleep study is basically confirmed by my own spo2 testing. And, of course, 12cm is better Sa02 and Sp02.
Perhaps I should go beyond a 15 minute ramp at 12 cm by the sleep specialist and go for a bit longer ramp time.
See, I do feel like I am getting TOO MUCH AIR at 12 but I've only been at 12 now for about 9 or 10 days. If I increase the ramp perhaps it will help in some manner.
And I suddenly increased my pressure from an average of about 9.5 to 11.5 or 12 cm overnight at the beginning of this month.