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- Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:33 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: New and need help with settings
- Replies: 9
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Re: New and need help with settings
I'm back for more advice. I've been trying to go up gradually on the pressure (1 cm a week, keeping the EPR at 3), hoping I can learn to manage the aerophagia and get the pressure up high enough to control my events. I'm having some success about the aerophagia, I think. It still wakes me up some, b...
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 1:29 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: New and need help with settings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1332
Re: New and need help with settings
Thanks, Julie. I’ve tried an “eliminator” cervical pillow, but I don’t really think I do the “chin tuck” thing. I use a buckwheat hull pillow under my neck while I’m sleeping and my head stays up (unless I slide way down in the bed, which doesn’t happen often.). But, as you noted, I have a lot going...
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:22 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: New and need help with settings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1332
Re: New and need help with settings
Thanks so much for the quick response, and right to the point!
I’ll try the 1 cm/wk ‘at home’ approach unless and until it is successful or clearly doesn’t work for me. And if I have to do the sleep lab titration study, I’ll specifically request a trial on a bilevel machine.
Thanks again!
I’ll try the 1 cm/wk ‘at home’ approach unless and until it is successful or clearly doesn’t work for me. And if I have to do the sleep lab titration study, I’ll specifically request a trial on a bilevel machine.
Thanks again!
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:17 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: New and need help with settings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1332
New and need help with settings
I'm so grateful to the experienced folks on this board for all I've learned already from reading your advice to others. I had a home sleep study and was diagnosed with OSA in mid Feb. I already sleep on my back, with a dental splint and chin strap, in an adjustable bed with the head cranked up to ab...