3 weeks in and really notice a difference

[Hogsrul]

I was disappointed after the first few nights when I slept 7 hours initially on the machine and still felt groggy. Now, I am feeling like a champ and sleeping around 4-6.5 hours a night on the s9. I wish I could sleep more but I continue to wake up around 5 every morning and have a problem with the starting pressure.

It starts at 6, but I notice when I wake up the machine is usually at a pressure of 8-10. I would like for it to go back to the 8-10 pressure immediately when trying to go back to sleep. Can I change that? I don't have ramp on.

[chunkyfrog]

The machine takes a little while to get up to minimum pressure.

[jweeks]

Hi,

Two comments:

1) taking a while to feel better - that is pretty normal. There are two things at work here. First, you have a sleep debt that you have to pay back. That takes some time. Second, your brain has adapted to getting poor quality fragmented sleep. It has to re-learn how to sleep again. In fact, with some people, once you get a few hours of sleep, your brain is more than happy since that is more good sleep than it is used to, so it wants to get up and start the day. This will fade over time. It took 6 months for me, but other people on the forum say that was longer than average.

2) minimum pressure - in general, you want your minimum pressure to be about 1 centimeter or so below your 95% pressure level. If you don't have those numbers handy, then based on your observations, if you are 9 on average, then setting the starting pressure at 8 is reasonable. You can google for how to get into the clinical menus on your machine and change this yourself if you feel comfortable in changing settings in a computer menu. I cannot tell you to do it, but in my case, I did change my own settings.

-john-

[zoocrewphoto]

The machine takes a little while to get up to minimum pressure.

Mine gets up to my starting pressure of 11 in less than 10 seconds. I suspect his machine is set with 6 as the low end of the range and needs to be set to start higher.