***WOULD YOU CHANGE PRESSURE WITHOUT DOCTOR'S KNOWLEDGE...??

Bahumat wrote:I first experimented with changing my own titration two years ago, when I got ill with the swine flu. (Fun times.) At that sickness, 4 cm just wasn't doing it for me; I couldn't draw in enough air.

So I went into my clinical menu, upped my minimum pressure from 4 to 6, and my max from 10 to 12. Worked great.

Currently, my device is wide-open on range, from 4-20 (min-max) with the device automatically adjusting. Works great. I average a 12.4 on most every night, seldom spiking past 16, seldom dropping lower than six. Life is good. I did this without my doctor's approval, simply showed him the results, and he declared them "Great!".

JoshT wrote: Bahumat wrote:I first experimented with changing my own titration two years ago, when I got ill with the swine flu. (Fun times.) At that sickness, 4 cm just wasn't doing it for me; I couldn't draw in enough air.

So I went into my clinical menu, upped my minimum pressure from 4 to 6, and my max from 10 to 12. Worked great.

Currently, my device is wide-open on range, from 4-20 (min-max) with the device automatically adjusting. Works great. I average a 12.4 on most every night, seldom spiking past 16, seldom dropping lower than six. Life is good. I did this without my doctor's approval, simply showed him the results, and he declared them "Great!".



im assuming this can only be done with a bipap machine and not my machine..?

Pugsy wrote:

JoshT wrote: Bahumat wrote:I first experimented with changing my own titration two years ago, when I got ill with the swine flu. (Fun times.) At that sickness, 4 cm just wasn't doing it for me; I couldn't draw in enough air.

So I went into my clinical menu, upped my minimum pressure from 4 to 6, and my max from 10 to 12. Worked great.

Currently, my device is wide-open on range, from 4-20 (min-max) with the device automatically adjusting. Works great. I average a 12.4 on most every night, seldom spiking past 16, seldom dropping lower than six. Life is good. I did this without my doctor's approval, simply showed him the results, and he declared them "Great!".



im assuming this can only be done with a bipap machine and not my machine..?

Actually an APAP will do this. My machine does. I use 10 cm min and 20 max. Most of the time I see around 11 or 12 but sometimes I see 15 to even 18.

Your machine will not do it because it is a straight CPAP only machine. Delivers a set pressure. I can switch my machine over to straight CPAP like yours if I wanted to. It is an advantage to having APAP. Any APAP can be used in straight CPAP mode. So like 2 machines in one. Your PR S1 Pro is straight cpap only. Certainly not an inferior machine for what it does but you can only utilize one pressure setting at a time.