Can I approximate a biPAP experience by setting, say, the exhalation relief to the lowest setting and moving the max and min air pressures up in tandem on my System One aPAP? ... Would I be better off trying it as a straight CPAP so that the exhalation fall-off is less? It just occurred to me that ...

Thank you, djhall and OkyDoky, for helping to clarify. I'm only taking melatonin and tryptophan at night. Recent sleep study showed no apnea or hypopnea with CPAP treatment during study AND no stage three sleep! I'm going to try straight CPAP for a few nights and compare it to a few nights of using...

So my question is (at last--thanks for your patience): Can I approximate a biPAP experience by setting, say, the exhalation relief to the lowest setting and moving the max and min air pressures up in tandem on my System One aPAP? No. A biPAP can function a bit like power assist for your breathing. ...

Ok ... I have sleep Apnea ... Biggest question. Why me? What's the trigger points? Pretty much what the first poster said. Many people think OSA is something caused by being overweight. There is some truth to that, since fat deposits in and around the throat can worsen or even cause OSA, but for ma...

Sounds like you've gotten some good information to get started with. Using the instructions in the link on how to access clinical settings menu and making sure the first two settings are an auto mode with OptiStart on will let the machine narrow in on a good pressure setting over the course of the n...

One thing you may want to consider is enabling the OptiStart feature. OptiStart is a new feature that, if turned on, will automatically start the therapeutic pressure at the 90% pressure average, provided from the previous therapy session. This allows the device to address any possible early-events ...

Oh, no! I just saw this and . Pugsy, I'm so sad to hear you are going through a rough time. While reading this I was struck by how much I feel that you have touched my life even though we have never met outside this forum, PMs, and the mail. I want you to know how much that means to me. If there is ...

For what it's worth djhall, my sister's ENT did not recommend surgery for correcting issues better corrected by cpap or bipap because overall, they are unsuccessful. My sister was just fortunate. She had her deviated septum corrected because she was having breathing problems in the daytime which wa...

A few years ago I had all the classic OSA symptoms. Chronic tiredness, irresistible sleepiness during long drives, afternoon naps on the floor of my office, falling asleep watching TV, snoring, and people telling me that I stop breathing, gasp, choke, and snore when I sleep. I got a Respironics M se...

To know if an apnea is truly a central you would need all the additional equipment typically used in a sleep lab. Without all that extra equipment, what your machine CAN tell is if your airway was clear or obstructed at the time of the apnea. You could be semi-awake and turning over trying to get co...

I notice that how well rested I feel in the morning is VERY correlated with my AHI even down to <1. Whenever I feel amazing in the morning, I check my AHI and it's almost always < 1, but on crappier nights, I feel not so well rested, and when I check the machine in the morning, the AHI is usually i...

Of course, that assumes nothing else is going on in your data. As pointed out above, the best thing is to post screenshots of your data for review when in doubt of what you need to do.

How do we reduce hyponeas? Is it a pressure thing? My apneas are almost gone, this is the biggest issue I am having. Yes, a Hypopnea is essentially an Obstructive Apnea where airflow is reduced by 50% or more, but not completely (which would be an actual OA). A little more pressure usually holds th...

These machines are a vast improvement over no sleep data at all, but they are rather blunt instruments looking for mostly for severe problems. The finer stuff still requires the added data that a full sleep lab brings to the table. I assume the issue for a patient is knowing that these arousals are...

I don't know, but I have been playing with both those masks as well, and I have raised my pressure a step or two to get the same "effect" as I did with the full face masks. I don't know if that is my nose, or nasal pillows in general, or just these specific masks, or my imagination, but there was an...