Help for Newbie -- Equipment, etc.

General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.
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Re: Help for Newbie -- Equipment, etc.

Post by cflame1 » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:24 am

to give yourself a chance to get used to it... and believe me it takes some time... I'd try it with the pressures that they found in the study. Give it a couple of days at least (we say around here to give changes a week before you tweak things).

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Re: Help for Newbie -- Equipment, etc.

Post by Jason1955 » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:37 am

Cflame1, thanks for the advice to stick with my initial pressures to start -- so I won't use the AUTO setting yet.
How about the BIFLEX setting? There was nothing in my Rx about this -- any idea if I should make sure the DME enable this option?
Thanks.
Jason

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Re: Help for Newbie -- Equipment, etc.

Post by cflame1 » Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:16 pm

by all means try the biflex... it's a "comfort" feature.

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Re: Help for Newbie -- Equipment, etc.

Post by Slinky » Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:33 pm

Take your chances. Your doc wrote the script. Let the DME provider's RRT make the settings according to the script and his/her own experience.

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