Recoil wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 1:10 pm
The idea that my brain is not sending a "Breathe" signal freaks me out
Should I give it another night with the Full face mask before switching to APAP mode?
Don't worry about it. There are many here who's brain isn't sending them the "Think" signal.
More seriously, switching over to APAP is not big deal. You're almost obsessing over it.
Here's what you can do, to give APAP a try, somewhat anxiety free.
You're currently on straight pressure of 14cm.
Change to APAP mode, but set your min to 14 and your max to 15. The difference between 14 and 15 is not really distinguishable.
Try that our for a night or two, prove to yourself, it's almost identical in feel.
Then, if we see your trace is moving to 15, we know that there is occasion where we could use more pressure. Also if we see that the trace is flat-lining at 14, we know that we can reduce out minimum pressure.
One of the disadvantages that Lefty and his sycophants don't understand is; when using APAP, not only are we benefiting from treatment, but we are continuous titrating ourselves. We can look at our traces and adjust our pressures should our current needs not be enough, *or too much*. This isn't possible with CPAP.
Pressure titration is not one-and-done. And titration in a foreign lab environment is flawed because we don't sleep naturally there.
Right now you're pressure is at 14. Let's say 12, 13 or 15 (or some value in that range is more optimal. There isn't anyone here that can look at your trace and say, hey 13 is more optimum.
But, if you were at 12-15, there are many here who could look at your trace and easily and correctly conclude that your minimum was too low (or high). And as an added bonus, if your needs very because of REM, position, ill-health, anxiety, medication. Pressure can change to treat you better, than fixed ever can.
This is the stuff Lefty and his sycophants don't or won't talk about. All they do is compare fixed to a horribly misconfigured APAP and say APAP sucks, look at the results.