Good morning. Just stumbled upon this site recently. After a few years of my wife complaining about my sleeping habits, I ran across a gently used Philips Respironics DreamStation. I decided to give it a shot. I have been using it for three nights now and starting to tinker with the settings. The first two nights I had the Auto setting at 4-12. After two nights I have bumped that up to 5-13. See the latest SH graph and see what I'm doing right or wrong. For some reason I cannot get the flow limit to show up on the chart.
CPAP Newbie - SH Graph
Re: CPAP Newbie - SH Graph
Welcome to the forum.
Respironics machines don't have a Flow limitation graph like ResMed machines. That's why you can't find one.
Respironics instead puts the FL up on the Events graph for regular flagging.
You are actually doing quite well on your own and you have the right idea.
If it were me I would increase that minimum again...not so much because of the AHI but because of the snores.
The minimum pressure is actually the more critical setting...has to be high enough to hold the airway open in general and then give enough of a head start in case the machine senses something it doesn't like.
Snores are early warning signs that the airway is trying to collapse. Usually easily killed with just a little more minimum.
On your reports I am seeing a little more snores, Fls, and RERAs than I would like to see...they aren't part of the AHI but they are a sign that the therapy is not quite optimal...close but not quite there.
Won't take much to clean that "clutter" up a bit. You don't need to kill all of it ...a random clutter event isn't that big of a deal. We just don't want quite so many of them.
Respironics machines don't have a Flow limitation graph like ResMed machines. That's why you can't find one.
Respironics instead puts the FL up on the Events graph for regular flagging.
You are actually doing quite well on your own and you have the right idea.
If it were me I would increase that minimum again...not so much because of the AHI but because of the snores.
The minimum pressure is actually the more critical setting...has to be high enough to hold the airway open in general and then give enough of a head start in case the machine senses something it doesn't like.
Snores are early warning signs that the airway is trying to collapse. Usually easily killed with just a little more minimum.
On your reports I am seeing a little more snores, Fls, and RERAs than I would like to see...they aren't part of the AHI but they are a sign that the therapy is not quite optimal...close but not quite there.
Won't take much to clean that "clutter" up a bit. You don't need to kill all of it ...a random clutter event isn't that big of a deal. We just don't want quite so many of them.
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Re: CPAP Newbie - SH Graph
Thank you for the warm welcome! I will bump up the minimum and see if that helps out.
