New machine, new DME and Dr - help please

[seenas]

Hi, I am a senior (old as dirt). After 7 years my Respironic (Remstar ( the tank) Auto CPAP finally died.since I am now on Medicare I had to go through a new physician and DME because my doctor retired and the DME closed. Previously it was discovered that I could not sleep with a regular CPAP and needed the auto set to 7 - 17. I went to a new physician and had a sleep study done. I was told I needed a pressure of 14 and after several calls between new DME and physicians office I was given a prescription for a auto CPAP range of 5 -20. I found this questionable but figured with the auto CPAP it should be okay until I Returned to see the physician. I received a Dreamstation auto CPAP. I was told I could monitor directly my AHI from the machine as well as able to use the dream mapper App. I am currently unable to access my AHI on this machine and the APP will not connect. The DME tell me my pressure is ranging from 5 to 5.0 through remote access. When the sleep study was done I had to come in for a second day to be assessed on a CPAP maachine and I had my first decent sleep in months. It doesn’t make sense to me that this new machine is staying at the pressure of 5 and I am exhausted when I wake up. Please note when I used to monitor my self it averaged from 8 - 14 with a AHI around 1.8 - 2.2. I am in the process of getting a copy of my sleep study. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Jas_williams]

Make sure your machine has an SD card in it, then use sleepyhead to monitor your settings.


Go here https://www.apneaboard.com/adjust-cpap- ... tup-manual and request the clinician manual for your machine from the clinician manual you can enable AHI to display on the machine and also check the settings

[seenas]

Thanks!