New to CPAP, worse AHI with cpap ?
Re: New to CPAP, worse AHI with cpap ?
Depending on your sleep position, you could raise the head of the bed a few inches (>4) and see if it helps, also drop your min. pressure by just 1 cm - often helps.
Re: New to CPAP, worse AHI with cpap ?
I have had more and more occurrences of aerophagia, lowering the pressure and sleeping at an angle help a bit, but it happens unless I keep the pressure low, but that means worst AHI (~10 rather than ~5), also once it happens I'm so bloated I have to discontinue.
As Im not able to use my CPAP much, I'm back to pre cpap tiredness, which is too bad, as it was helping for a while before aerophagia started.
Anyway brought that up with the Dr and went in for a sleep study ... I barely got any sleep during it and had aerophagia there too ...
Here is what they said :
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This was a challenging titration study due to sleep onset and treatment emergent central apneas and aerophagia. Dr. <edited>, the attending-interpreting physician, suggests a trial of Bilevel PAP (positive airway pressure) with a pressure setting of 9/6 cm H2O with a back up rate of 12.
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so I guess I'd be trying BPAP (ABAP currently), really hope that will help with the aerophagia, does it ?
As Im not able to use my CPAP much, I'm back to pre cpap tiredness, which is too bad, as it was helping for a while before aerophagia started.
Anyway brought that up with the Dr and went in for a sleep study ... I barely got any sleep during it and had aerophagia there too ...
Here is what they said :
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This was a challenging titration study due to sleep onset and treatment emergent central apneas and aerophagia. Dr. <edited>, the attending-interpreting physician, suggests a trial of Bilevel PAP (positive airway pressure) with a pressure setting of 9/6 cm H2O with a back up rate of 12.
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so I guess I'd be trying BPAP (ABAP currently), really hope that will help with the aerophagia, does it ?
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