CPAPtalk.com

These look pretty good (although not the perfect matchup I was looking for):

"The people at Apneaboard seem to just think think it's heavy flow limitation and I need like an ASV or something, you guys think it should be ignored?"

ASV came up early in your threads at AB, as one possible solution available if your early complaint of excessive CAs were to persist. You were not advised to get an ASV; you were advised to reduce EPR, and that (plus perhaps time) did the trick.

After that, ASV came up next when you brought it up. You had gotten one cheap and wondered whether to persist with it. No one encouraged you in your use of it. Instead, they explained how an ASV is different from more everyday machines. At some point you apparently stopped using it.

No one mentioned an ASV after that.

When you provided zoomed-in views of unusual flow rates, you were immediately told your graph was showing a cardioballistic artifact. Flow limitations were noted in addition to the CB oscillations.

I am concerned whether you are really taking in the advice and information you are receiving at either forum.

Miss Emerita wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 09, 2022 6:02 pm

When you provided zoomed-in views of unusual flow rates, you were immediately told your graph was showing a cardioballistic artifact. Flow limitations were noted in addition to the CB oscillations.

I think you're missing where a member there said we've seen these types of breathing patterns helped with a bi-level machine or a more advance ASV machine. The messaging I've gotten on apneaboard and CPAPtalk are slightly different. The people on apneaboard seemed more concerned and this could possibly be damaging, and the information thus far on here that it's potentially cardioballistic and could be ignored or may not be a problem at all. I'm really just looking for some reassurance because it's scary seeing breathing like that.

I had an ASV at one point but I didn't buy it intentionally, the person who sold it to me thought it was a VAUTO. I tried it out but it wasn't for me and traded with another person for the VAUTO.

I am concerned whether you are really taking in the advice and information you are receiving at either forum.

Thanks for the concern, but I assure you I am, and it seems I've read my post at apneaboard a little more throughly than you have.

modest811 wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:13 am

Happened again last night! It's so annoying... 

After reading though the whole thread (wow, that's not like me)... I have to ask:

WHY?

Why is it so annoying? what's it doing for you, or to you, other than stressing you out?

Like Morbius said.. "a problem is only a problem if it's a problem"... is this a problem, are are you just freaking out because OSCAR is showing a really high RR?

To badly paraphrase wise ones here, "The goal is to feel good, not have pretty statistics."