I'm not much into DMEs, have played around with the settings been on machine since January.
Just wanting to know for those of you who monkey around with your settings--at what point to you start adjusting settings? When AHI is a certain level or what? My AHI is around 3.1. Lots of snores....
Heidi
Remstar Auto w/ C-Flex-- When Do To Adjust Settings????
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Sleeping With The Enemy
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Heidi,
Hi. I'm on the same machine as you, having received mine at the end of July. I guess I'm just, as Rested Gal like to call us, a lab ratter at heart. I did a lot of experimenting in the past month to see at what settings I would get the best results with this machine. After doing everything from changing high and low auto numbers with Cflex, to turning off Cflex, using straight CPAP, and even keeping the auto on and trying the same high and low numbers, I have found that auto with the same high and low numbers or straight CPAP without Cflex works best for me. I am averaging from 0.1 AHI this morning to about 0.5, with a 0.8 the other day being one of my higher AHI's.
Why not give your settings a go? But try to keep them in the new config for more than on night because, as you know, things change from one night to the next so you need to see a pattern before you can decide if something is working or not. You could just be having a bad night; and if you leave it set that way just once and then change it to something else, you won't really have an accurate idea of what can happen at that setting.
Good luck. Let me know how you made out if you do adjust the settings.
Hi. I'm on the same machine as you, having received mine at the end of July. I guess I'm just, as Rested Gal like to call us, a lab ratter at heart. I did a lot of experimenting in the past month to see at what settings I would get the best results with this machine. After doing everything from changing high and low auto numbers with Cflex, to turning off Cflex, using straight CPAP, and even keeping the auto on and trying the same high and low numbers, I have found that auto with the same high and low numbers or straight CPAP without Cflex works best for me. I am averaging from 0.1 AHI this morning to about 0.5, with a 0.8 the other day being one of my higher AHI's.
Why not give your settings a go? But try to keep them in the new config for more than on night because, as you know, things change from one night to the next so you need to see a pattern before you can decide if something is working or not. You could just be having a bad night; and if you leave it set that way just once and then change it to something else, you won't really have an accurate idea of what can happen at that setting.
Good luck. Let me know how you made out if you do adjust the settings.
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Heidi, that AHI sounds good. Is someone telling you they actually are hearing you snore, or are you saying "lots of snores" because that's what shows up on the data? Of course subtle snoring sounds could be happening at a low level that a bed partner can't hear.My AHI is around 3.1. Lots of snores....
What range are you running your autopap, and what was your titrated pressure from the sleep study?
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