Hi, I upped the epap to 7..... I figure a little bit at a time rather than all at once.... didn't expect much change right away so.... I left the IPAP at 13 for now (I figure I'll go up again tonight on the EPAP to try to reduce the PS).... I remember that the reason I had upped the IPAP to 13 is th...

I don't know if I would call it an adrenaline arousal but a similar thing happens to me occasionally...
I have found that when I wake up in such a state that it has been in the middle of some serious apnea events.

Not at my computer now but I could look a few of those up and post the charts later.

Well.... upon looking through the old reports 8 and 12 have never been tried so it is a place to start again. I am not one to ignore advice without at least trying it out. 8 and 12 it is.... for a few nights anyway. Back to the events though...... What I saw with the hypopneas was a steady waning to...

Here is another section on the same day... just hypopneas but I don't see any sharp spike after them to indicate obstructive events...

I found some where I had the settings 5 and 9....
PS of four ......
No OA's listed and when I scrolled through the flow rate graph I really didn't find anything that I would class as obstructive....
Here is a snip of some which, I think, are clearly central:

Ok,

So maybe 6 and 11 or 7 and 12......?

What is the 'PS' ?

The AVAPs is set on 6and 12 with a max IPAP of 30. Tidal volume was at 460, which seems about right for me... 5 foot 5... Since I switched to the resmed for the flow rate chart I noticed that the AHIs went way down.... Unfortunantly I also noticed that the tidal volume tended to be anywhere from 180...

Sorry, that was backwards.... a 10 on the EPAP.....
His thought was to reduce the obstructive events.... which it di but then the centrals took over.

Guess it's time for a bit more history... I have messed with these settings for many months now and have kind of settled on about 6 and 12..... once the ipap goes up over about 7 or 8 the central events go way up.... same with the epap... once it is over, say 13, the AHIs go way up. I saw a differen...

Pugsy; I have all of these machines on hand.... The one I use the most is the AVAPs. I only switch to the Resmed to get a detail of the flow rate... I just use the term Bi-PAP because it is what I know that is easy.... the resmed that I use sometimes is a bi-level with ST... though as I said, I turn...

I suppose I would consider this my pretty standard "good" sleep.....

I'll try to put up a whole chart for a typical night with the AVAPS:
Sorry... it's kind of in sections....

Hi, and thank you for the reply. I started with a ResMed Aircurve 10 auto cpap based on a sleep study which was believed to indicate OSA. This autopap was not adequate so they switched to a Air Curve 10 Bi-PAP. AHI's were still very high, and in the meantime my wife would complain that I would just ...

A close-up of a typical breathing pattern: