My handsome new auto bi-level is not working correctly. Actually, I think he has had the problem ever since I got him, but I was too stoopid to realize what was wrong.
I bought him outright on cpap.com. My sleep doc refused to have an RT check him out & adjust him when he found out that I wasn't going the route of renting from his favorite DME. (He even sent the Rx to them after I had told him that I was buying it at cpap.com & asked him to send it there.)
My old bipap was a dumb brick & I had never used apnea software before, so I didn't know what to expect.
My regular bipap setting is 11I/7E. After I got him & Pugsy showed me where to go to adjust him, I set him up with a little leeway on either side.
When I would the data, the pressure chart showed that he would just go up to the max & stay there.
There is only one line on his pressure chart, no separate lines for I or E.
When I tried higher max levels, he would just go to that max & stay there.
Basically, he's acting like a plain CPAP -- neither exhaling nor adjusting.
I do have him set to auto bipap
When I use him, I feel better than using nothing, but it's nothing like the way I used to fell after even 2 hours with my sweet ol' dumb brick.
What to do?
Problems with New APAP
Re: Problems with New APAP
I am not familiar with the Devilbiss Bilevel machine.
Do you have any other settings available in Auto bilevel mode besides IPAP and EPAP? If so, what are those settings?
Do you have any other settings available in Auto bilevel mode besides IPAP and EPAP? If so, what are those settings?
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