Still feeling tired with CPAP. Please help.

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Suneesh S
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Re: Still feeling tired with CPAP. Please help.

Post by Suneesh S » Sun Aug 17, 2014 12:23 am

I have been using a straight CPAP pressure of 10 and EPR of 2. My sleep seems to be better with the straight CPAP. I am also trying to sleep on my side as this reduces my therapy pressure requirement. My average leak is around 0.86 and 95% pressure at 1.20. How should I interpret this data. My graph shows I had reached maximum 80L/min on few occassions.

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Re: Still feeling tired with CPAP. Please help.

Post by Pugsy » Sun Aug 17, 2014 6:37 am

Suneesh S wrote:My average leak is around 0.86 and 95% pressure at 1.20. How should I interpret this data. My graph shows I had reached maximum 80L/min on few occassions.
I think you meant 95% leak and not pressure because pressure can go to down lower than 4 cm.
95% numbers (either pressure or leak) just means that for 95% of the time you were at or below that number. If you are seeing a 95% leak number of 1.20 L/min that means for 95% of the time the leak was at or below that number and that's a really low leak number and I bet your leak line is pretty much flat and either just a tiny bit above 0 or just barely above 0.
The 80 L/min max spikes are likely when you refit the mask.

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