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- Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Help Using CPAP On Flight
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3017
Re: Help Using CPAP On Flight
From CPAP.com: Here are the CPAP policies of various airlines in the United States and a link to each airline’s policy overview. If you can’t find answers online pertaining to your specific airline, equipment, or needs, don’t hesitate to reach out to the airline’s help desk, as they will have the mo...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: ResMed Autoset 11 Settings Optimization
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4631
Re: ResMed Autoset 11 Settings Optimization
With your current settings of min 4 max 7 and no EPR, you are spending a lot of the night at 7, largely due to your flow limitations. If you set your min and max to 7 with EPR of 3, your average pressure over the night will be lower, since your exhalations will all be at 4. But I'm all in favor of g...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Do I need to turn off EPR and go CPAP?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12169
Re: Do I need to turn off EPR and go CPAP?
Sleep HQ isn't giving me access to your charts, but given what you've said about them, I see absolutely no reason for you to stick with the changes you've tried out. Your AHI and FLs are worse with these changes, so go back to what was working better for you. Side note: Often when people turn EPR ON...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Help dialing in settings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3717
Re: Help dialing in settings
Yes, bumping your EPR up sounds like a good next step. You're still pretty new to PAP therapy, and sometimes it takes a while before it provides restful sleep. So I'd recommend you have some patience and see how things look a month or two from now. There's a decent chance you'll be feeling better. I...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: ResMed Autoset 11 Settings Optimization
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4631
Re: ResMed Autoset 11 Settings Optimization
Well that's encouraging! Stick with these settings for a few more nights and see how it goes. The next step I would probably recommend is to re-introduce some EPR. That will give you a lower pressure when you exhale (except when you're at 4), which might help with the residual aerophagia issues.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Events per hour has increased
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22167
Re: Events per hour has increased
That's it; the change would give you more information. Who knows whether the information would be helpful or not; it'd have to be available before anyone could figure that out.
I hope you'll follow up on the periodic limb movement issue.
I hope you'll follow up on the periodic limb movement issue.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Are these Central Apneas and what to do about them?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1688
Re: Are these Central Apneas and what to do about them?
In at least some places, the CAs seem to be part of a pattern of unstable breathing. Deeper breathing (perhaps as part of an arousal) leads to a CA, there's some deeper recovery breathing after the CA, then the deeper recovery breathing leads to another CA, etc. You can also see some waxing/waning p...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: ResMed Autoset 11 Settings Optimization
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4631
Re: ResMed Autoset 11 Settings Optimization
I’d suggest you go ahead with the increase to 7 as your minimum. We can then take that as a starting point for any further adjustments. Occasionally it will make sense to cap pressure below where it “wants” to go, if it’s mostly being driven up by flow limitations and if pressure increases are probl...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: [Long Post] Am I getting enough sleep?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1590
Re: [Long Post] Am I getting enough sleep?
I think your best bet is to keep a written record for a couple of weeks that notes your answers to something like this list of questions: How long did I sleep last night? Did I wake up early and feel like getting up? If yes, did I go back to sleep for some additional "lighter" sleep? How did I feel ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: ResMed Autoset 11 Settings Optimization
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4631
Re: ResMed Autoset 11 Settings Optimization
Welcome! In so many ways, you're off to a great start. You're sleeping with the machine, you have leaks under control, you're using Oscar, and you're taking an active role in making your PAP therapy work. Sleep is highly variable from one night to the next, so when you make changes to your settings,...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Help dialing in settings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3717
Re: Help dialing in settings
Your flow limitations may or may not be contributed to unrestful sleep. The best tool you have to reduce FLs is EPR. It drops your pressure when you exhale; by the same token it increases pressure when you inhale. This little increase can help reduce FLs if they originate in sagging tissues in your ...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:22 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: BiPap - Severe bloating no matter what I do
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7576
Re: BiPap - Severe bloating no matter what I do
As you may already know, IGA nephropathy can cause tiredness as a symptom. Are you seeing a kidney specialist? Are you receiving any forms of treatment for the disease?
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:22 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Help required to reduce AHI and Aerophagia
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11792
Re: Help required to reduce AHI and Aerophagia
+1 Zonker. One way raising your minimum to 7 might help is by giving you more consistent flex. (The lowest pressure the machine can generate is 4, so you get no flex at 4, just a little at 5, etc.) Flex can sometimes help with flow limitations and hypopneas. After you try that for a few days, you co...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Newbie and confused.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2201
Re: Newbie and confused.
About your sleep position: You might want to try this for stomach-sleeping:
wiki/index.php/Sleep_Positions
For some people who use CPAP, this is a big help.
wiki/index.php/Sleep_Positions
For some people who use CPAP, this is a big help.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Cpap data
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1838
Re: Cpap data
I had some thoughts about this, but on reflection I think the prior question is whose requirement you're needing to meet.