Thanks for the info Pugsy. I will abandon the dream of reaching 0.00. I think my best was a 0.5. I play too many video games, so I guess I was equating it to treatment, i.e. a perfect score. ;) I'll look into altering my EPAP and IPAP. I think your suggestion of the initial lower of PS might have be...

I started treatment for the first time at the beginning of August and my numbers initially were horrible. Pugsy helped me by suggesting to lower my PS down from 8 to 4, which really cleaned up my results and resulted in a lower AHI. A couple days ago, I changed my PS to 3, just to see how it would i...

Pugsy helped me by suggesting a lower PS. I think I was at 8 and had lots on centrals on my first night. I went down to 4 and now I range from 0.5-3 AHI a night.

Had my best night so far.

Third night. I tightened up the mask quite a bit. Seems to have stopped the leaking. It just isn't that comfortable though. Oh, and I was up and down a couple times during the night. I can't explain how thankful I am of this group, especially Pugsy for all the advice. I feel like I am officially on ...

It's Crapria we are talking about for a DME.... :lol: :lol: Not really sure how much the insurance company is paying since what I was told was Crapria will charge me $150/month for 10 months and then the machine is mine. Seems more like a line of credit more than anything, seeing that the machines ...

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Mon Aug 02, 2021 11:55 am

There's really no need to discuss PS with your doctor unless he notices that PS is at 4 on the reports he sees and wonders about it.

Can they remotely update it back to what it was before?

You know I have been thinking about the doctor ordering PS of 8 and the only remote reasoning might be because of your low O2 numbers and he is thinking that a higher PS might push more oxygen via bigger breaths. This could very well be what he is thinking. I'd ask him, but I don't want the drama o...

The PS of 8 is likely the cause of the high number of central/CAs. Pugsy, I can't thank you enough. I think lowering that PS and changing to the small size nasal thingy worked some magic. Still need to work on leaking, but this looks better than my first night. I am finding that I want to way overs...

Something to think about since you are going to be adding Oxygen...make sure you still need it once the sleep apnea is optimally dealt with. This is what I figured. I would probably only need it for a certain duration, but even at the rate Crapria wanted to charge me, a couple months and I could bu...

Well....Crapria isn't exactly known for getting stuff correct (they are well known for screw ups though)...and doctors do sometimes pull setting ideas out their butts when they don't understand the actual machine or how it works and when a doc jumps on a bilevel machine just because of a high diagn...

I am curious as to if there will be an SD card. I contacted ResMed a few weeks back to ask them this directly and they indicated that they have not provided SD cards in machines for the past couple of years. They also recommended any SD card over 2Gb would work. Since this is a Bi-Pap machine, I'm ...

I updated to your recommendations. With the PS so high, could that cause my clogged ear feeling?

I just realized what your settings were last night. I didn't mess with any of the settings. Apria told me it would come "pre-programmed" with what the doctor ordered. I am not even sure what he ordered, as I was never provided with any documentation. I did a sleep study, but they never put me on a ...

How would you rate your sleep? Wake often or sleep soundly for the most part. How long do you think it took you to fall asleep? Answers to these questions affect whether or not maybe you should have a little higher minimum EPAP. Thanks for the info, Pugsy! I would rate my sleep last night as better...