eric_sleeps wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:15 pm
Would it be unwise at this point to lower my max pressure from 20 to something like, say, 13? On the first night, I was able to get a mostly good night's sleep and the max pressure stayed almost entirely below 13. B
If you never, ever reach the maximum pressure setting then it becomes a moot point whatever it gets set at.
The machine only goes where it thinks it needs to go in an effort to PREVENT the airway from collapsing....now sometimes it goes chasing nasal congestion with that more pressure but like I said above ...it won't help if those FLs are from inside the nose itself.
There are actually several experiments that you could do in an effort to figure all this out.
1....work on the nasal congestion
2....reduce max setting to 10
3....increase minimum setting to 5 or 7
4....try turning EPR off or at least reduce it
5....try sleeping with EPR at what is most comfortable
Remember....your primary goal is "get decent, solid sleep"...because without sleep none of this data really amounts to much. Awake/arousal flagged events cloud the data reported and makes it hard to know if what we are seeing is real or not.
When you have time load the Fri report into SleepHQ and lets see just how worrisome those centrals really are or aren't.
If you do need EPR to sleep and it is NOT the trigger for the centrals then I want you to be able to be comfortable and get to and stay asleep so you might as well use EPR if it helps you sleep.
There's a very small chance that EPR is a trigger for your centrals....but and even much bigger chance those centrals are awake/arousal related.
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