pressure settings

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pressure settings

Post by crob » Sun May 07, 2017 3:36 pm

I'm curious.
I had an at home study and diagnosed with mild sleep apnea. My doctor said that typically the clinic results bump up the home study results. I only had 8 events. How does the doctor then prescribe the settings? I have the range set from 4-20.

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Re: pressure settings

Post by Okie bipap » Sun May 07, 2017 4:20 pm

Many people find it hard to breath with only 4 cm pressure. Normal recommendation is to set your low pressure to 6 or 7. After a few nights at this pressure, it is easy to determine if you need higher pressure or not.

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Re: pressure settings

Post by M3T4LLik4 » Sun May 07, 2017 7:09 pm

Okie bipap wrote:Many people find it hard to breath with only 4 cm pressure. Normal recommendation is to set your low pressure to 6 or 7. After a few nights at this pressure, it is easy to determine if you need higher pressure or not.
I agree with Okie bipap. I had my range from 5-10, and upon a recommendation, I upped my lower pressure to 7 and slightly tweaked my higher pressure. I have felt much, much better since doing this. You will find that you may need to continue to do slight tweaks to get to your perfect pressure. I know I still have a ways to go, but my best days, I feel great!

Also, consider the position you sleep. I found I had more drastically more events in the supine position, so now I avoid sleeping on my back. If I sleep on my side or belly, I have my AHI lower than 1 most nights and my awakenings are less than 3 these days as a result of this, too!

Hope you find your perfect setting

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Re: pressure settings

Post by crob » Mon May 08, 2017 3:56 am

Thank you both so much! I so appreciate you taking the time to reply!

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Re: pressure settings

Post by Hannibal 2 » Mon May 08, 2017 5:55 am

M3T4LLik4 wrote:
Also, consider the position you sleep. I found I had more drastically more events in the supine position, so now I avoid sleeping on my back. If I sleep on my side or belly, I have my AHI lower than 1 most nights and my awakenings are less than 3 these days as a result of this, too!
How do you know which way you're sleeping if you're asleep? I try to sleep on my side and assume that when my AHI is lower I have 'probably' slept more on my side, but I don't know for sure, too many other variables that could affect my AHI reading.

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Re: pressure settings

Post by Hannibal 2 » Mon May 08, 2017 6:07 am

crob wrote:I'm curious.
I had an at home study and diagnosed with mild sleep apnea. My doctor said that typically the clinic results bump up the home study results. I only had 8 events. How does the doctor then prescribe the settings? I have the range set from 4-20.
I started at 4-20 just to see where the pressure wants to go, then started fine tuning the range to see what worked best in terms of comfort and effectiveness, currently on 10-16 but that's just what works for me. You will need to download Sleepyhead software to look at your data in more detail, folk here can help you interpret the data if it makes no sense to you.

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