Dear CPAPTalk, I could use your advice - My prescription is for a pressure of 8. But I was getting aerophagia so I lowered it to 5. I've been sleeping at the new pressure for about 30 days. The AHI dropped from an average of 0.91 (averaged over 90 days, no EPR) to 0.71 (averaged over 35 days, with E...

Thank you! I talked to my doctor and they said that it might be a defect in the machine (Resmed airsense) which is known to report respiratory rates that are wac if you don't use their software (i.e. SleepyHead, where the above photo came from). I may need to get this bad boy checked out by Resmed t...

I have some symptoms of aerophagia I'm trying to reduce. Here is an example sleepyhead graph: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m0wyz8u6ncw7bgj/Screenshot%202017-03-23%2008.50.18.png?dl=0 It is similar to the past graphs - at some point in the night, when I'm in Stage 3 sleep (that's what I understand the s...

Thank you Pugsy! Here is the flow limitation graph: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yc1dlnqkq2ztdag/Screenshot%202016-11-11%2009.45.35.png?dl=0 I was getting a lot of aerophagia at using 11-13cm pressure, so I changed it to 7-10cm. I sleep decently if I don't have a high leak rate - sleeping on 4 pillows ...

It looks like my pressure jumps to the max and then drops a few times in the night.

Here is the SleepHead report screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0hmm4m1yphsjn ... 8.png?dl=0

Does this mean I need to increase the pressure?

Thank you so much!
-appo

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