ASV: biflex kicked my a**

So, I've been trying to figure out how to improve my breathing at night because I'm not quite where I need to be. While I do have my AHI's consistently under 5, and at least I've been able to function. Went to Dr last week and this week I'll be picking up an o2meter to record for a night.

I was dx'd with 'emphysematic changes' thought my lung function is above normal.

Anyhow, I've been using the 'rise time' at a 3 or 4 setting. Last nite I decided to see if the biflex would do anything for me, so I went with a 1 setting and man, did it ever. After 9 hours sleep I finally forced myself out of bed and I had a very drained flu-like feeling, but my temp was normal. I've had some bouts with nausea today. I feel like all the blood has been drained from me adn I could hardly work today.

I'm trying to determine if the biflex screwed me up, or what. I've never felt this bad. Again, it could be a bug too, I just don't know. For sure, tonite I'm going back to rise time.

Any thoughts?

With that much of an impact, I would suspect a bug more than BiFlex. But I have seen other posts where some folks do very poorly with BiFlex. So it could be that.

Well, if tinkering caused the machine to not treat your apnea properly, that could make you feel bad.

Were you numbers good?

AHI was 3.

Biflex is one of the features in the ASV that Repironics allows for the patient to control, like the humidity setting.

You know sometimes it is simply the change from the usual that disrupts things. Our bodies get used to one thing and a relatively minor change can confuse the body. Even something so simple as BiFlex which is just a comfort feature and in theory shouldn't change things much but sometimes adding it or taking it away makes the body go "Whoa this isn't what I am used to and I don't know if I like it or not"...
I had a similar thing happen when I turned AFlex off after using AFlex set at 2 for over 2 years.
I documented it here. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=67883&p=631376&hili ... mb#p631376

Then again some people do have better results with any exhale relief feature being turned off. In theory the minor reduction during a Flex cycle shouldn't really impact overall effectiveness, we all know that theory doesn't always equal real life experience.

Pugsy wrote:You know sometimes it is simply the change from the usual that disrupts things. Our bodies get used to one thing and a relatively minor change can confuse the body. Even something so simple as BiFlex which is just a comfort feature and in theory shouldn't change things much but sometimes adding it or taking it away makes the body go "Whoa this isn't what I am used to and I don't know if I like it or not"...
I had a similar thing happen when I turned AFlex off after using AFlex set at 2 for over 2 years.
I documented it here. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=67883&p=631376&hili ... mb#p631376

Then again some people do have better results with any exhale relief feature being turned off. In theory the minor reduction during a Flex cycle shouldn't really impact overall effectiveness, we all know that theory doesn't always equal real life experience.

Thank you, I think you're right. Feeling far better today (even with AHI=9), I think it was a combination of both the biflex and some kind of bug. I felt so tired and drained, I was sorta afraid of going to sleep last night. Nevertheless, I went to be earlier and rested well. I do find the rise time setting to be far more comfortable than the biflex.

Thanks for the input.