cpap data: low number apneas, but large number of hypopneas

awaiken wrote:

Wulfman... wrote:

awaiken wrote:

Wulfman... wrote:My recommendation would be to bump your pressure up 1 cm. to 9 cm. for awhile and see how that looks.


Den

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only my doctor can do this? my last doctor gave me the cpap, i no longer see him, i wonder if my new one can make the adjustment. why do you feel i should bump it up a notch?

No, you can change whatever you want in your machine (for all intents and purposes). It's YOUR machine and YOUR therapy. You have the ability to take control of your own therapy. You're the one that's sleeping with it.

Do you want to try to reduce your hypopnea events? That's what you need to do.

Do you have the clinician's manual for your machine?

If not, you can find a text version that will help you get into the menus........at this link:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=101747&p=951212&hil ... ng#p951212


Den

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This is awesome. thanks.. will my doctor question that my pressure went from 8 to 9 in my cpap history without any doctor's intervention? will that be a problem?

Should not be a problem. After all, it's YOUR therapy.......YOUR machine. And, if it improves your therapy, you should have the software printouts to prove it. They can't argue with (your) success.


Den

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Wulfman... wrote:

awaiken wrote:

Wulfman... wrote:

awaiken wrote:

Wulfman... wrote:My recommendation would be to bump your pressure up 1 cm. to 9 cm. for awhile and see how that looks.


Den

.

only my doctor can do this? my last doctor gave me the cpap, i no longer see him, i wonder if my new one can make the adjustment. why do you feel i should bump it up a notch?

No, you can change whatever you want in your machine (for all intents and purposes). It's YOUR machine and YOUR therapy. You have the ability to take control of your own therapy. You're the one that's sleeping with it.

Do you want to try to reduce your hypopnea events? That's what you need to do.

Do you have the clinician's manual for your machine?

If not, you can find a text version that will help you get into the menus........at this link:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=101747&p=951212&hil ... ng#p951212


Den

.

This is awesome. thanks.. will my doctor question that my pressure went from 8 to 9 in my cpap history without any doctor's intervention? will that be a problem?

Should not be a problem. After all, it's YOUR therapy.......YOUR machine. And, if it improves your therapy, you should have the software printouts to prove it. They can't argue with (your) success.


Den

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thank you once again Den

This is awesome. thanks.. will my doctor question that my pressure went from 8 to 9 in my cpap history without any doctor's intervention? will that be a problem?

Nope. Just go in small increments. Let your doctor know at your next visit why and how much and he or she will simply make note of it. I go up the minimum setting and try it for a week before going up another minimum setting. It seems when I have allergy issues, I need to pop that pressure up 1-2 cm. Now that I'm no longer having allergy issues, I have lowered it again.

Now, if you are ALSO getting oxygen, I would recommend putting a call into the doctor before making changes only because I don't know a thing about the complexities once you add oxygen.