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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:02 pm
by Goofproof
A lot of answers to you post slipped past me. I had to read them to catch up. It sounds like you are doing what I am others have tried, we change our breathing timings listening to the machine. The machine is trying to learn our pattern and we have to ignore the machine and let it find the rhythm, it is harder to do than one would think.
I try to watch T.V. to get my mind off it, I also made a MP3 CD of nature sounds that plays for 4 or 5 hours as a restful background. I am at 15 and find myself checking to see if the CPAP is blowing, my FF mask has a pretty high normal leakage rate.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:41 pm
by Guest
Fifi wrote:The problem I have with the c-flex is, ... as if my breathing goes out of sync and everytime the pressure drops with the cflex (difficult to describe,) drops I find it difficult for some reason, to inhale again.
I keep the remstar on pressure 7min 13 top. If I turn the 13 down to 12 I wake up gasping with my heart pounding like mad.
I still have the darned ear ache. Just going to the doctor today again. I cannot stay without the machine. My 90% pressure is 12. I now have a problem. Earache will not go and I cannot be WITHOUT cpap.
There are settings for the c-flex "off, 1, 2, and 3" if you currently are set on 3 change it to 2 or 1 and see how that works for you. Could also be you just need to get used to it, if you have been using CPAP for 7-8 years you probably have gotten used to a particular pattern in your breathing and it may take a little while to get used to.
If your 90% is 12 and your prescription is 13 I would set your range to something closer to 11min - 15max.
I believe most people were recommending the c-flex for the comment you made on it being hard to exhale, not for the ear ache. For that you really should see a doctor and follow his advice.