Significant weight loss; still require BiPap but my EPAP of 4 is looking too high

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Re: Significant weight loss; still require BiPap but my EPAP of 4 is looking too high

Post by palerider » Mon May 30, 2022 5:01 pm

aspen wrote:
Mon May 30, 2022 2:24 pm
OHHHHHHHHH. Tell me more. My addled brain is not comprehending. I do expect that if I dig into the links above from OSCAR, it will explain that somewhere?

Egads, I've had a bunch of medical issues and my sleep study should have happened last fall. Really wish I could just go there and have the sleep neuro figure it out.

My numbers are so good though, and the higher I put the minEPAP, the higher the clear airway drama goes - at my previous settings I was starting to wake up bamboozled and confused, and it was those events that were high. My AHI was running 6-8.


palerider wrote:
Mon May 30, 2022 1:37 pm

You're mis-interpreting what the TAP chart is (supposed) to be telling you.

A bell curve on that would be bad.

Yours suggests that your min pressure should be a little *higher*, not lower.
The TAP graph is a partial realization of something that I conceived of, namely a simplified way of seeing at a glance how much of the night someone spent at a particular pressure.

It's partially implemented because the attention of the creator of sleepyhead wandered part way though figuring out how best to display the concept, within the bounds of the (then sleepyhead, now Oscar) interface.

What you're seeing in yours. specifically, is that the machine is spending a considerable amount of time at a higher pressure than your current minimum pressure.

For instance:
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That shows that I spent most of the night at my set minimum pressure, and the machine didn't have to spend much time raising pressure, and it didn't ever need to go much higher than my set minimum.

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Re: Significant weight loss; still require BiPap but my EPAP of 4 is looking too high

Post by aspen » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:21 am

Bingo. I wander far higher in pressures. Got it now, thank you so much!!!! I may nudge it up a bit tonight just to see.