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by Fiji
Sun Sep 09, 2018 4:26 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Re: Respiration rate - please help

Hi Friends - I wanted to give an update on what's happening, in case anyone else who has the same issues stumbles across my thread. My first word of advice -- if you have asthma and you have NOT seen a sleep pulmonologist -- get thee to the MD! So, I had a titration study and found that my apnea sym...
by Fiji
Sun Sep 09, 2018 4:26 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Re: Respiration rate - please help

Hi Friends - I wanted to give an update on what's happening, in case anyone else who has the same issues stumbles across my thread. My first word of advice -- if you have asthma and you have NOT seen a sleep pulmonologist -- get thee to the MD! So, I had a titration study and found that my apnea sym...
by Fiji
Sun Sep 09, 2018 4:16 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Re: Respiration rate - please help

Hey, Fiji, did you know many people with asthma benefit from a magnesium supplement? Blood tests don't show the ionic form we need. Magnesium help lung tissue relax. When I started taking 500 mgms/day magnesium citrate for palpitations and migraines, side effort was no more short breath. Worth inve...
by Fiji
Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:08 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Re: Respiration rate - please help

Hi Pugsy and Pale Rider -- Thank you both again for your help. Mon/Tue are two of my more brutal work days so I apologize for the delay. No apologies necessary. His response was, "Most likely she developed CPAP-induced central sleep apnea. That would explain her variable RR at night and worsening g...
by Fiji
Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:53 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Re: Respiration rate - please help

Hi Pugsy and Pale Rider -- Thank you both again for your help. Mon/Tue are two of my more brutal work days so I apologize for the delay. My official follow up with my sleep doctor is tomorrow. However, (I work in the medical field) and a colleague emailed a pulmonologist friend of hers on my behalf....
by Fiji
Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:04 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Re: Respiration rate - please help

Could you turn off the pie chart so the other part of the statistics will move up into view please? To turn off the pie chart...Preferences/Appearance tab and just remove the check mark for "show pie chart". For the life of me, I cannot find a "preferences/appearances tab". I looked under "view", I...
by Fiji
Sun Aug 05, 2018 6:12 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Re: Respiration rate - please help

Hello - I posted several weeks ago and received no replies. I am hoping a fresh post with a different screenshot will help. I have been on CPAP since June. Every night, my respiration rate goes up as soon as I put the machine on. My normal, resting respiration rate during the day is about 8 BPM. My...
by Fiji
Sun Aug 05, 2018 6:10 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Hyperventilating while sleeping
Replies: 3
Views: 683

Re: Hyperventilating while sleeping

The screen shot needed to better understand your data is shown in the example given here... https://sleep.tnet.com/resources/sleepyhead/shorganize That shot will help evaluate what is going on. Hi there - my apologies for the delayed response. I was set up to be "pinged" when someone replied and so...
by Fiji
Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:53 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Re: Respiration rate - please help

Hello - I posted several weeks ago and received no replies. I am hoping a fresh post with a different screenshot will help. I have been on CPAP since June. Every night, my respiration rate goes up as soon as I put the machine on. My normal, resting respiration rate during the day is about 8 BPM. My...
by Fiji
Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:47 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Re: Respiration rate - please help

Actually you did receive one reply but you didn't follow up. http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=172224&p=1258794#p1258794 I saw your original post and the response and was waiting for you to post more information before I said anything because what you posted wasn't particularly helpful. I...
by Fiji
Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:51 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Respiration rate - please help
Replies: 22
Views: 2138

Respiration rate - please help

Hello - I posted several weeks ago and received no replies. I am hoping a fresh post with a different screenshot will help. I have been on CPAP since June. Every night, my respiration rate goes up as soon as I put the machine on. My normal, resting respiration rate during the day is about 8 BPM. My ...
by Fiji
Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:53 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: CPAP is causing Hyperventilation.
Replies: 44
Views: 38708

Re: CPAP is causing Hyperventilation.

Hello friends I need help, please. I have a serious problem with the use of CPAP. CPAP is causing Hyperventilation. I wake up with severe hyperventilation symptoms. Please, anyone have hyperventilation using CPAP? How to solve this problem? Hi there -- I am wondering if you spoke with the doctor an...
by Fiji
Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:21 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Hyperventilating while sleeping
Replies: 3
Views: 683

Hyperventilating while sleeping

Hello -- I have been on my CPAP machine for 7 weeks. I can honestly say there has been no change in my level of fatigue and I still wake up multiple times a night. One thing that has gotten WORSE is my asthma. I have been a lifelong asthmatic. My symptoms were extremely well-controlled prior to usin...
by Fiji
Sun Jun 03, 2018 6:57 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Newbie struggles..advice welcome
Replies: 12
Views: 22337

Re: Newbie struggles..advice welcome

I don’t have a laptop right now so will have to wait on sleepyhead. Might be getting one soon tho!
by Fiji
Sun Jun 03, 2018 5:33 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Newbie struggles..advice welcome
Replies: 12
Views: 22337

Re: Newbie struggles..advice welcome

Thank you overshoot. I appreciated and really needed the kind words, my machine came with dreammapper software which I think may be the same thing? I will let you know tomorrow! Fiji