Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:37 pm
I have already done that, Den, but thank you for mentioning it in case I hadn't found that yet. I am personally an obsessive information gatherer, always looking to be well informed...but on this particular subject, it seems like very little is under my own control other than what I've done. I am so new to this that I am not confident enough to start tweaking my own settings, especially since I had a large number of central apneas on my sleep study (in fact more than half), and I'm afraid to do anything, with my limited knowledge, with the settings might affect that part of it adversely. I will most certainly bring up the subject with my doc, though, when I see him on the 28th. It seems like most reasonable doctors would be open to a couple weeks of APAP just to see what levels are actually being needed, etc., but who says all docs are reasonable? I'm somewhat surprised that a doctor would be willing to let patients go a whole month on CPAP without discussing their sleep study with them or assessing the situation personally, but I guess they are confident in the information they glean from the one-week report the DME sends and feel they don't need more.
Peggy
Peggy