zonker wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 04, 2024 5:17 pm

I can't offer any useful advice which won't stop me from commenting.

I was just wondering if the remainder of your user name is "short pier"?

Hahaha it's actually the beach!

Two footnotes to DS's excellent advice. First, I'd be willing to bet that a fair number of those CAs come after an arousal, either rousing you from sleep to waking or from deeper sleep to more shallow sleep. It is very common for people to experience more arousals when they aren't used to CPAP. So ...

Nothing will change, so long as you keep trying it every once in a while. Put it on, stick with it every night. Acclimate to it. I would feel suffocated with such low pressures, I'd bum my minimum up to 7. One potential cause of the centrals could be EPR, try knocking it down to 2, to see if they r...

Hello, I've struggled to use my cpap machine ever since I got it many years ago. But I always try to use it every now and then to see if anything changes. I used it for about 4 nights and each morning I will wake up with a stomach full of air, which is a common occurrence whenever I use the machine....

Hello everyone, I've posted here before asking for advice and most everyone said i should raise my min pressure, so i did. If i raise it higher than 6.2ish i get really bad Aerophagia, even sometimes at 6.2 or lower i will get it as well, but not nearly as much. So i've left it at 6.2 min and 20 ma...

Have you always used a full face mask? The reason I ask is I just recently went from a nasal mask to nasal pillows. It felt more refreshing with the pillows, stronger force from the air. So I turned the pressure down from 10.5 to 9.5 and results are basically the same so far. What I am thinking is ...

Is your prescribed max setting really 20? Since you mentioned using the hose therapy for an year am assuming you might have tried to fiddle with the max pressure setting earlier on ... do you recall noticing any difference (if and) when you lowered the max pressure setting?. Couple more responses a...

If your doctor will get on board and document the need for bilevel because of inability to tolerate the pressures you need because of the aerophagia your insurance should cover the expense. And yes...going to fixed pressure is likely to cause the aerophagia to be worse but you are using a lot more ...

It's NOT the min pressure that is causing you problems. You are averaging 11-12 for most of the night. When you start the machine it starts at the min and then takes you to whatever pressure your auto machine feels you need to stop events. I'll bet that if you set the machine at about 8-13, you wou...

Talk to your doctor about using a bilevel machine because of the aerophagia issues. 6 hours of sleep using the machine isn't enough to feel better and add in wake ups due to belly issues...a recipe for failure. There are times where your pressure needs are significantly higher than your minimum pre...

Hello everyone, I've posted here before asking for advice and most everyone said i should raise my min pressure, so i did. If i raise it higher than 6.2ish i get really bad Aerophagia, even sometimes at 6.2 or lower i will get it as well, but not nearly as much. So i've left it at 6.2 min and 20 max...

You haven't tried raising the min. pressure at all from its default low setting, and that's the first thing to try if AHI remains above ideal levels. Try 6 or 7 for a few nights and see how you do... it may be as simple as getting effective treatment vs inadequate. I didn't include screenshots of t...

Hello everyone, I'm returning to sleepyhead because my treatment still doesn't seem to be working after almost a year. I've posted on here a few times but didn't post correct screenshots so i'm giving it another try. Treatment for me has never really seemed to work. Over almost a year of using CPAP ...

Longwalksonthe, Welcome to the forum. Take the time to read through the link that GreyGhost posted. It would be useful to see what your leaks look like. And in your case, it would also be useful to see the Flow Limitation graph. We don't need both the pressure at mask and the pressure graphs---you ...

Thanks for all the info! I'll check the link out. As far as aerophagia goes, I was suffering from it when increasing pressure but ever since I put my epr to 3 instead of 2 it hasn't been happening. I usually wake up 1-3 times per night and it probably takes 15-20 minutes to fall back asleep. I've be...