difference between straight cpap and autoset

sleepyhead63 · Post by **sleepyhead63** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:00 am

I just switched my setting from straight cpap to autoset also a settling time of 10 minutes and a minimum pressure of 8cm and a max. of 20cm. My doctor prescribed a 14cm of pressure. Do you think these changes might help?

DreamStalker · Post by **DreamStalker** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:32 pm

sleepyhead63 wrote:I just switched my setting from straight cpap to autoset also a settling time of 10 minutes and a minimum pressure of 8cm and a max. of 20cm. My doctor prescribed a 14cm of pressure. Do you think these changes might help?

Having read your posts over the past several days .. here is what I think -

You are messing with too many parameters too frequently for you to figure out what your treatment is actually doing. Changing masks, pressures, and now mode between CPAP and APAP all in less than a week will only get you lost and desparate.

Calm down, take your time ... you need to monitor your data for at least a week or two without changing a mask or the pressure(s) or from CPAP to APAP or anything else. It is that average data that will tell you what direction to take next. Furthermore, until you get your mask to fit without any leaks (or mouth leaks), any changes you make are just a waste of time and energy.

Set your machine to whatever your doctor set it to and take care of the mask issues first ... then proceed from there.

Best wishes.

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:40 pm

DreamStalker is right on!!! One night's sleep on xPAP does NOT tell the entire story. ONE week's data for EACH SINGLE change is the only way to go.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:53 pm

sleepyhead63 wrote:I just switched my setting from straight cpap to autoset also a settling time of 10 minutes and a minimum pressure of 8cm and a max. of 20cm. My doctor prescribed a 14cm of pressure. Do you think these changes might help?

No......and for the same reasons DreamStalker mentioned.
I went back and read some of your earlier (and recent) posts, too (shortly after you started this thread). I believe you mentioned something about doing better at a setting of 13. So, try starting with that at a single pressure and leave it for a week. If EPR helps, use that......you don't have exhale relief in Auto mode on a Vantage machine.

Make sure you're not leaking out your mouth, too.

Den

sleepyhead63 · Post by **sleepyhead63** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:13 pm

Thank you all, makes alot of sense.

Wyl · Post by **Wyl** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:57 pm

I agree with what the others have said, but did want to add that if/when you do put it on auto, you need to tighten up the range. If your titrated pressure is 14, you should probably set the range to something like 12-16. Too wide of a range seems to have the potential to introduce its own set of problems (like runaway pressure).

Anyway, just thought I'd add that, but you definitely want to try to stick with manipulating one variable at a time. If you're adjusting multiple things simultaneously, you have no real way of knowing what actually fixed the problem.

sleepyhead63 · Post by **sleepyhead63** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:27 pm

I just want to say again thanks for all your help.Without this forum I would have trashed my therapy along time ago. Its good to know I'm not alone!

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