Lowering the max?

Moon · Post by **Moon** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:55 am

I was told that the max setting on my APAP should be as low as the last highest pressure, from my last download or a least a couple cm higher. Would anyone know why? (in simple terms) I was told this will help with reaction times... I'm not the smartest, but this is an auto-CPAP...

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:08 am

Moon wrote:I was told that the max setting on my APAP should be as low as the last highest pressure, from my last download or a least a couple cm higher. Would anyone know why? (in simple terms) I was told this will help with reaction times... I'm not the smartest, but this is an auto-CPAP...

Doesn't make sense to me.
The "response/reaction time" would be faster if your MINIMUM setting would be higher. Where you would set that, depends on several factors. I'm also of the "school of thought" that believes in limiting the upper pressure in many cases.....mostly to prevent the machines from disturbing sleep, such as in the cases of "snore chasing"......where the person has a propensity to snore without other "events" taking place.

Best wishes,

Den

JimW · Post by **JimW** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:45 am

I certainly cannot tell you why. However, when I first got my machine, it was set 6 to 20 cm. When I changed it to 6 to 14 cm, my numbers went down, and the pressure only hit 14 briefly on three different occasions since 1/30/07. (I have raised the low pressure slightly, to 6.4, since, and will likely make some more changes in the future.)

Moon · Post by **Moon** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:22 am

Thanks for your responce, I guess there is some merit to lowering the max. pressure then.

Ergin · Post by **Ergin** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:39 pm

I set my max pressure to my titrated pressure.

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