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Franky wrote: SOOOOoooo......I guess I'll leave it at 6 at he bottom pressure and see how it works awhile? Or maybe one night not enough time to fool with moving things around? Would it help to lower the max pressure or is that even relevent? Also I have the A FLEX turned off.....would fooling with that help or hurt or is it one of those things you have to fool with and find out? Again many thanks for any and all suggestions and advice. Glad I found this forum.

you shouldn't base things on a single night. more pressure is what that kind of thing indicates, I have nights ranging from 2 to 0, without any changes in the machine settings.

flex settings are for comfort, generally, and are yours to play with. though if you're really trying to fine tune things, then changing multiple things at a time muddles the results.... "was it the pressure change or the flex change that made things different?" etc.

Well its been a couple of nights on these settings. I was thinking on bumping the bottom pressure up to 7. Based on what you good people see here what would you tweak if anything? Many thanks for all ya'll help and advice. It means alot to me.

palerider wrote:

Franky wrote:

palerider wrote:generally the charts to show are event flags, flow, pressure, (or mask pressure, but not both) leaks, snore, flow limits, as many will fit, (you can drag the charts around and resize them to make a good display.

the other charts are more specialized and may get requested now and again, but the ones up there are the biggies, in decreasing order of 'importance'. the snore and FL charts are more often useful in a 'why did my apap do xxx' questions.

Is that last one I posted all the info needed? I am certainly sleeping better with the machine but was hoping I could get some fine tuning hints and tricks. Thanks for any suggestions or help anyone could offer.

you missed the event flags.

scrunch the graphs down a little and post last nights.

based on the one chart, I'd think a bump of minimum pressure would be good, but having ahi down in the 1's are really good.

So what does raising the minimum pressure do?

Does sleepyhead work with new resmed airsense 10 yet?

Tango wrote:Does sleepyhead work with new resmed airsense 10 yet?

Yes, but only the latest version. The prior versions won't.

JimP wrote: So what does raising the minimum pressure do?

When using apap auto adjusting pressure mode it is actually the minimum pressure that is the most critical pressure setting and not the maximum. The minimum pressure works like a baseline pressure to help hold the airway open generally and give a good starting point for times when higher pressures might be needed. People tend to think that these machine can respond to the airway trying to close off in the blink of an eye but that's not how they work. It can take a minute or two for the pressures to climb up to a optimal levels and while the machine is climbing the airway can close and open back up before the machine gets to where it needs to be. So we set the machine closer to what is need so that it has a better head start. Sometimes we need more pressure because of REM stage sleep events or maybe we are on our back instead of our side..maybe a little bit of both back and REM...so the pressure does a good job until REM sleep or we roll on our back and then the airway starts to collapse more so more pressure is needed. How much more we don't ever know but we want the machine to be able to get there soon enough. So the minimum pressure setting is the critical setting.

Franky wrote:Well its been a couple of nights on these settings. I was thinking on bumping the bottom pressure up to 7. Based on what you good people see here what would you tweak if anything? Many thanks for all ya'll help and advice. It means alot to me.

I'd agree that going to 7 and giving it a little time to settle would be worthwhile.