To Snoredog/ EPR and aerophagia

grumpygirl · Post by **grumpygirl** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:37 am

Well Snoredog- I did something I never thought I would do and that is lower my pressure a little. When I had an APAP machine on loan for about 6 weeks my average pressure was around 10.? and never went above 11.0.
My doc would not let me keep the darn APAP machine and now I cannot afford to repurchase one. Anyway, last night I lowered my pressure to 11.6 from 12.0 just to see if my aerophagia would improve even a little bit. I was not holding out much hope but this morning my stats look a bit better than the night before. Down to 2.6 AHI from 5.?. My AI was 0.4 so all in all I don't think for the first night it was too bad. My leak rate fell from .44 to .32 and I do feel some better. I am still a bit tired but not as bad as the day before where I had to take 2 short naps. We'll see how things go for a while before getting too excited. My aerophagia is better but that could be just a fluke(as we all know from past CPAP experience). So thanks for the advice and if you have any more suggestions please pass them along!!!!

Snoredog · Post by **Snoredog** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:56 am

no problem, my theory is simple, if things don't go well one way you go the other.

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Thu May 08, 2008 9:22 am

Snoredog wrote:no problem, my theory is simple, if things don't go well one way you go the other.

That's got to be the most succinct technical distillation I have read in a long time!

That line deserves immortality...

Offerocker · Post by **Offerocker** » Thu May 08, 2008 10:35 am

-SWS wrote:That's got to be the most succinct technical distillation I have read in a long time!

H U H ?????

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Thu May 08, 2008 10:44 am

Offerocker wrote:
-SWS wrote:That's got to be the most succinct technical distillation I have read in a long time!
H U H ?????

Great to see you, Offerocker! Good point... My comment wasn't nearly as succinct as Snoredog's. Sorry about that!

I guess I had better try that again:

Snoredog wrote:no problem, my theory is simple, if things don't go well one way you go the other.

Snoredog just put a whole bunch of complicated biomedical considerations in a tiny nutshell... he did real good!!!

Offerocker · Post by **Offerocker** » Thu May 08, 2008 1:38 pm

I agree!
However, it doesn't always work for me...I'm "going the other way" so frequently, I feel like I'm dodging bullets - can be a dizzy deal!

I thought you were distilling something, sigh.

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Thu May 08, 2008 1:43 pm

Offerocker wrote:I agree!
However, it doesn't always work for me...I'm "going the other way" so frequently, I feel like I'm dodging bullets - can be a dizzy deal!

I thought you were distilling something, sigh.

Ah, yes... medicinal moonshine! LOL!

It's so good to see you back!!!!