What is your CPAP pressure?

Very interesting to see what the average pressure is...not scientific but good to know where the grouping is.

This poll seems to indicate that people on CPAP, in general, are a grouchy lot!

So what else is new

When reading posts to topics on this site, I often feel quite inadequate for being dumb enough to accept a straight cpap machine. Luckily for me, I'll buy another on my own when I need it if the insurance doesn't cover it. My bicycles are way more expensive and I can't make them move as fast. My numbers are not bad with straight cpap knowing before therapy my oxygen saturation was dipping down into the mid 50s and now it's in the mid 90s. Anyway, since I'm a cpap user, I also wondered what the answer to this question was since I lost so many brain cells that I was interested to see where I stood in this subset population. My neighbor has a respironics machine and he told me it took him 3 days to get used to it. I'm still laughing about that statement. I guess I'm grouchy as well, I hate strapping Dumbo on my face every night but I sure feel good when I can take it off in the morning. I hate breathing better with my machine, I want to breathe better without it. Oh well, at least I have this site, it's become facebook to me.

Big S wrote:I hate breathing better with my machine, I want to breathe better without it. Oh well, at least I have this site, it's become facebook to me.

My sentiments exactly.

NOT grouchy at all. apap working great now for over 3 years. it has improved quality of life.
cranked the throttle to 100mph today & loved it))))))))))))

I am struggling with choosing the pressure I was prescribed or the one I feel works best for me,
My titration chose 7. I find it leaves me with an AHI of 4-6.
At 10.5 I am left with 1-3

pbach wrote:I am struggling with choosing the pressure I was prescribed or the one I feel works best for me,
My titration chose 7. I find it leaves me with an AHI of 4-6.
At 10.5 I am left with 1-3

Struggling??

Sounds like a very easy choice.

pbach wrote:I am struggling with choosing the pressure I was prescribed or the one I feel works best for me,
My titration chose 7. I find it leaves me with an AHI of 4-6.
At 10.5 I am left with 1-3

This is your therapy, the titration was only one night in a lab and is not always accurate. good for you that you're figuring things out for yourself.

Thanks Doric,
I shouldn't overthink these polls. I will chose the pressure that works best for me rather than the titration script number for the poll

I use a Bi-Pap now. when I started my pressure was 20cm. it's now 15/25cm on Bi-Pap.

rested gal wrote:I read once, somewhere, that someone (ResMed, I think) wrote that statistically a CPAP pressure of 10 was sufficient to keep most ( not all... most ) people's airway open.

Looks like the poll is going that way. For people using CPAP anyway.

That is bs from Resmed. Every single person has to be individualized. Resmed should not even publish information like that. If my pressure was left at 10, I'd be dead.

Mikey

ResmedUser wrote:

rested gal wrote:I read once, somewhere, that someone (ResMed, I think) wrote that statistically a CPAP pressure of 10 was sufficient to keep most ( not all... most ) people's airway open.

Looks like the poll is going that way. For people using CPAP anyway.

That is bs from Resmed. Every single person has to be individualized. Resmed should not even publish information like that. If my pressure was left at 10, I'd be dead.

Mikey

Statistically there's usually a spot where the majority of points come together.......

So you're not average ResMedUser. That doesn't make ResMed wrong or say that they shouldn't publish such info. You are right that people must be individualized.......but the fact that most people tend to be around 10, doesn't make ResMed wrong, any more than your pressure is wrong.

scrapper wrote:

ResmedUser wrote:

rested gal wrote:I read once, somewhere, that someone (ResMed, I think) wrote that statistically a CPAP pressure of 10 was sufficient to keep most ( not all... most ) people's airway open.

Looks like the poll is going that way. For people using CPAP anyway.

That is bs from Resmed. Every single person has to be individualized. Resmed should not even publish information like that. If my pressure was left at 10, I'd be dead.

Mikey

If Resmed wrote it and Rested Gal quoted it, and our own poll confirms it then I'm a believer!!

DoriC: If Resmed wrote it and Rested Gal quoted it, and our own poll confirms it then I'm a believer!!

Classic Line DoriC!!!!