All in all I see 11 events and think that is much better than you had been doing and I wonder other than feeling tired if you don't have more positive symptoms outside of that? ie for me less morning headache but I dont know if you got one of those when you had poor sleep. I mean, some of it could ...

-I realized as I started to try to sleep last night why I have been sing higher pressures> I have had trouble since the beginning feeling like I was getting enough air to breathe, and lower pressures are uncomfortable. This doesn't cause me stress, but I do have to consciously breathe harder and th...

[/quote] So, I changed to 10-20 cmH20 last night (I have been on 3 EPR since 8/23). Here's the Sleep HQ from 8/30, and a couple of things: https://sleephq.com/public/60a0d161-d559-4a44-9a03-5d326db45373 -I realized as I started to try to sleep last night why I have been using higher pressures> I hav...

Meanwhile, there will be blood: Well...it's not like there isn't any blood now with things as they are. :lol: We tend to fight battles with the tools and ammo that we have available and my bag of ammo is pretty empty. I am fully aware that the chances of finding a setting or settings that actually ...

There were also the three nights of no chin strap from 8/11-8/13 with massive leaks per doctor's orders. I spoke to her again today and she said she believes no matter how high the leak, even the 104 L/min i had one night without the chin strap, could be compensated for by the CPAP machine. Well I ...

5. If the OP has a tendency to CompSAS, we need to return to one of my original questions: How'd you end up on 14 cmH2O? Is some of this from unnecessarily aggressive pressures? If so the answer isn't ASV, it's stop arbitrary dial wingin'. I asked this question quite a while back and the impression...

There's a little that on those 3 days. Probably from the EPR. Looks CSRy but undoubtedly CompSASy. Ok, so it looks like a waxing and waning of the respiratory drive. And to - explain the acronym to those who don't know it - you're saying it looks like something with a "Complex Sleep Apnea Syndrome"...

Do those leaks bother you? You have a lot of leaking going on and they could be causing arousals that you don't remember. I forget....what mask are you using? I don't know what Rubicon might suggest but if it were me I would suggest working on leak management for one thing just in case the leaks ar...

AFAIK, when you zoom in as much as possible, flat tops signify mouth leaks and spiky tops signify mask leaks. As far as I knw, it's the opposite - saw tooth is mouth leak. Constant, flat, is mask leak. IDK if either rule can be made, but if we're discussing the above waveform, there were no leaks. ...

-ETCO2 can be low for a few reasons... There is something wrong with your ETCO2 probe--I don't think this is that common; certainly doesn't happen that often in the OR It happens very frequently during NPSG, as the moisture-extraction media often gets saturated and/or clogged. ETCO2 sensors don't h...

Seems like you do better when you DO have mask leaks! I would try to cut the pressure DOWN, and see how that works for you. Find out how low............you can go........... Oh, one question: when I first started CPAP I was on a 6-12 setting and I was waking up every hour all night long. I narrowed...

I thought some of the lurkers might find this interesting. An article on partial pressure of carbon dioxide: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK551648/ An article on oxygen saturation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK525974/ A couple of random things about CO2 and O2: -PO2 is the concentrat...

Seems like you do better when you DO have mask leaks! I would try to cut the pressure DOWN, and see how that works for you. Find out how low............you can go........... That's an intriguing idea. One of the thoughts I have been having lately is that the high pressure, while it might open up my...

Padding: are you talking about those pads that come with the headgear and go around the parts that are on my cheek? Yes...those side fleece wraps. In my case I ended up having to wrap everything with some fleece and also use a size small DreamWear frame and it still moved around a bit too much and ...

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Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:30 am

I thought everything was abbreviated in the military?

Everything is, but we're not making it up on the spot as we go