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,...

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 ...

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?

+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...

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.

I had some thoughts about this, but on reflection I think the prior question is whose requirement you're needing to meet.

You might want to check that you don't have ramp on with a low pressure, which can leave people feeling air-starved.

Change the mode first; then use the settings I gave you. Any chance your doctor could work with you on changing the timing of your diuretic pills?

You can emulate your current settings by switching to VAuto mode and using these settings: EPAP min 15 IPAP max 19 PS 4. This will allow you to see your flow limitations. As for what the doctor will think.... First, you have the right to change your settings. This will not void your insurance, for e...

About dizziness: I learned by experience that there can be significant benefits from vestibular physical therapy.

The ST machine has been recalled, and in any case, an ST machine is a very different beast from your PAP machine. (I'm not sure, but I think your current machine has been recalled too, if it's a REMstar machine.) https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/respiratory-devices/recalled-philips-ventilators-bi...

zonker wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:54 pm

well, actually....

I see what you did there….

ozij wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:46 pm

Miss Emerita wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:56 pm

To follow up on ozij's post, it would be helpful in particular to know the central apnea index from your original sleep study.

By "original" do you mean a sleep study other than the titration study?

Yes. Thanks for the clarification.

Too funny! Is this by any chance from Nicole Tersigni's The Art of Mansplaining: Men to Avoid in Art and Life?

To follow up on ozij's post, it would be helpful in particular to know the central apnea index from your original sleep study.