zonker wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:59 pm
i started on my new airsense 10 autoset for her this past wednesday night and firgured i'd put up some thoughts about transitioning from my previous machine.
first off-yeah, i know. i haven't change my equipment profile yet. i want to wait until i'm sure this is my "forever" machine first.
not that i have any reason to feel it won't be.
i didn't take to it right away. i had a "lapse of intelligence" when i went in to do the setup. it was the easiest thing that gave me the most difficulty! i wanted to turn off the ramp and i ASSUMED that would be in the clinician's menu. i kept trying and trying. finally broke down in looked at my FINE manual and set it per instructions.
just for grins, i have it set to the "for her" mode. i'll prolly try the other mode too, just for comparison.
i set it up to mirror my previous pressures, with a slight uptick of bottom pressure at 9.6. that was just fat fingering on my part as i'm usually at 9.5. then set epr at 3.
well! i slept very fitfully. finally at about 3 am, i turned off epr and that was a little better. i dunno; i'm not real comfortable with epr. i know it helps a lot of people but it just seems to make it HARDER for me to breathe.
the next night wasn't really good either. for some reason, the airsense feels like it's more "powerful" in it's pressure that the resperonics. i turned pressure down to 9 and again, felt better.
now i'm thinking my humidifier is too high so will set that at 1 for tonight. too much dry throat last night.
so as you can see, lots of tweaking. and i'm sure there will be more to come.
one question i have for my fellow air sense users...i don't have this set up as auto on and off. just haven't done that yet. so i notice when i turn this on, it's very responsive getting up to speed very quickly. and when i shut it off, it drops immediately.
except, it still sends out a slight stream of air after i turn it off. it eventually stops. but is this typical for this machine?
