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by freakyfrog
Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:46 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and CA events... time for an ASV?
Replies: 7
Views: 1925

Re: UARS and CA events... time for an ASV?

You think you have treatment-induced CA's? The machine is not registering them... so perhaps you're on the edge? At the low pressures and high PS you're at it's certainly possible that you're losing some breath drive via CO2 stripping out. Partially block the exhaust ports as an experiment. You lik...
by freakyfrog
Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and CA events... time for an ASV?
Replies: 7
Views: 1925

Re: UARS and CA events... time for an ASV?

You are not experiencing treatment-emergent central apnea, because you're not having any central apnea events. You may be experiencing some instability in your flow rate, though that isn't apparent from the Oscar material that you posted. You mention frequent arousal breathing, though that too isn'...
by freakyfrog
Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:45 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: UARS and CA events... time for an ASV?
Replies: 7
Views: 1925

UARS and CA events... time for an ASV?

I was diagnosed with UARS 3 years ago via a watchpat study with an RDI of 14 and an AHI of 2. I suffer from all the classic UARS symptoms such as fatigue, headache, cold hands and feet, IBS, etc. I was prescribed a CPAP, which I couldn't tolerate and felt worse on. I eventually found out that the re...