Flow limitation advise

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tan
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Re: Flow limitation advise

Post by tan » Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:13 pm

palerider wrote:
tan wrote:I have happily settled on 13/9 I-E straight and have no desire to experiment any further
can pressure that varies from 9 to 13 every breath be reasonably called "straight pressure"?
Ugh, fixed I mean. Yeah, but anyway I don't buy that argument of our esteemed senior user that pressure change itself could bump one out of one's sleep since I have abrupt pressure changes 10-15 times a minute

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Re: Flow limitation advise

Post by palerider » Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:28 pm

tan wrote:
palerider wrote:
tan wrote:I have happily settled on 13/9 I-E straight and have no desire to experiment any further
can pressure that varies from 9 to 13 every breath be reasonably called "straight pressure"?
Ugh, fixed I mean. Yeah, but anyway I don't buy that argument of our esteemed senior user that pressure change itself could bump one out of one's sleep since I have abrupt pressure changes 10-15 times a minute
yeah, me too! of course, another nail in the coffin of that "theory" is this article someone posted recently:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... po=46.0526 wherein it says that we *spontaneously* have eeg arousals, even without cpap pressure changes, or indeed, without cpap, without apnea....

it's a compelling 'theory', but doesn't have anything much to back it up.

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