thanks for the replies! I'm pretty upset that this disease has ruined my career and life yeah when I can actually sleep on the resmed vpap adapt I am getting close to 0 AHI but the pressure is too high to fall asleep. I have to take klonopin to fall asleep and stay asleep on the machine but it does...

Acceptable leak rate varies between the brands. For ResMed...stay below 24 L/min for the bulk of the night and the machine can compensate for excess leaks. What you see being reported by your Resmed machine is all excess leak. Respironics machines reort leaks differently and they have a different l...

What is considered an acceptable leak rate? My SleepyHead report for last night says I have a high leak rate but it may be off due to my taking off my mask for a few in the beginning. The last time you used your ResMed AirCurve 10 ASV... was last night (on Thursday, April 09, 2015) You had an AHI of...

EPAP....exhale pressure IPap....inhale pressure PS..pressure support which is nothing more than IPAP minus EPAP. EPAP is need for obstructive apnea events... IPAP mainly in your situation is needed to be fast and high for the centrals....that's how centrals are treated...with a rather quick big bur...

First I wish I could get as OLD as you again. Haven't seen 50 in almost 20 years. I also use an ASV machine. To understand the max pressure, you need slow down and understand that you have an auto adjusting machine. The first thing it can adjust is is EPAP. It can move any where from EPAP MIN to EP...

By the way although my script is for Max EPAP 17, the AirCurve 10 ASV only allows it to go to Max EPAP 15. I hadn't noticed they had set it to that at Binsons. I tried increasing just now to 17 but it will not allow it any higher. Don't worry about that right now. It's doubtful that your maximum EP...

One more thing about caffeine - it's so likely to aggravate, if not induce GERD, and that's a bane of many of us, whether due to age, diaphragm problems, LES (sphincter) problems, etc.) and you can have it 'silently', but it may well cause you to arouse during sleep, if not consciously, and mess up...

EPAP is exhale pressure.... IPAP is inhale pressure With the PS minimum of 0....that makes EPAP equal IPAP...because PS is the difference between EPAP and IPAP and with it set to 0....there is no difference. PS minimum of 2 you will notice that difference while awake. That change is immediate ...it...

First of all don't go changing any settings until you understand what you are changing. Use the ramp function again by turning the machine off and then back on again...ramp starts all over when you do that. It's difficult to get used to all this "stuff" that we are attached to...the mask and the ma...

Set my PS to 2. Will try that for now. My ramp time is 45 minutes. But I changed to no ramp time just now. I want to know right away how I'm going to react to these settings, etc. I can put the ramp time back in when I feel I've found the optimum settings for myself. By the way although my script is...

Don't take the caffeine in the evening...it's going to make falling asleep a whole lot harder. If you aren't asleep by the time the ramp is over...push the button to turn off the machine and then push it again to start it all over again so that you get ramp available to you again. Your starting pre...

Should add that I chose a pillow mask. In this case the AirFit P10. I like it.

Hi, I was prescribed the Resmed s9 Adapt. Got to my medical equipment provider and they gave me the newer AirCurve 10 ASV instead, yesterday. Puts out to much pressure (if I can use that term loosely not knowing if it sets off bells with strict definitions of keywords) for me when it kicks in past i...