Can you trick your APAP to change presure?

.mike · Post by **.mike** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 7:49 am

Maybe if I hold my breath will it bump up a little?
I have tried just for fun to breath thru my mouth and get it to shut off but that don't work.

GumbyCT · Post by **GumbyCT** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 7:58 am

.mike wrote:Maybe if I hold my breath will it bump up a little?
I have tried just for fun to breath thru my mouth and get it to shut off but that don't work.

It would need to be set up to shut off but that would be for a leak not holding your breath.

Why not go into the menu to increase the pressure?

archangle · Post by **archangle** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 12:45 pm

.mike wrote:Maybe if I hold my breath will it bump up a little?:lol:

Your profile shows a bilevel machine. I don't think that model has auto pressure adjust. It just goes between an inhale and an exhale pressure.

I can fairly easily make my Respironics auto CPAP machines change pressure by holding my breath. You may have to hold it several times and with for a minute or so. It may not react immediately. My pressure will also go up if I make snoring noises.

.mike · Post by **.mike** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:10 pm

archangle wrote: Your profile shows a bilevel machine. I don't think that model has auto pressure adjust.

I have 3 machines.

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:25 pm

Truly you are serious about your treatment. Jim

archangle · Post by **archangle** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:44 pm

.mike wrote:
archangle wrote: Your profile shows a bilevel machine. I don't think that model has auto pressure adjust.
I have 3 machines.

Do you use them all at once?

Try playing with the auto, if you have one. It's somewhat educational. I got the best results with the "block off your nose and breathe through your mouth" technique. Snorting through the nose like I'm trying to clear out some mucous also works pretty well. I presume it thinks I'm snoring.

I think I tried it on Legacy, M Series, and PRS1 auto machines.

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 7:22 pm

Isn't technology cool?

robysue · Post by **robysue** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:17 am

It's easy for me to make my PR System One BiPAP increase the EPAP: All I have to do is "snore" while I'm awake.

It's actually pretty irritating actually: When I get super relaxed, but I am NOT asleep, I will make quiet snoring noises (with my mouth firmly closed, I might add). The System One picks it up as snoring, bumps the pressure up, and I quickly get UN-relaxed and often I get much more alert if this is happening just as I'm getting settled down and working on relaxing enough to go to sleep.

So---you want to make that auto increase pressure just for the heck of it? Try snoring rather than breath holding. Both the S9 and the System One aggressively react to snoring. They wait until a second apnea occurs and ends in a short time frame to increase the pressure---or at least that seems to be what my data shows: One obstructive apnea comes and goes, and there's no increase in EPAP. Two occur in a short period of time (five minutes seems to be short enough), and the EPAP goes up. But one little Vibratory Snore is all it takes to make the System One start quickly ratcheting up that EPAP; and that's true whether I'm wide awake or sound asleep when the System One decides it detected a Vibratory Snore.

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