My readings before & after adjustments, do not make sense?

Hello everyone,

I cannot make any sense out of my readings before & after slight adjustment of pressure. A adjustment was necessary as the previous pressure of 6.6 was not controling the AHI.

My EPR is 2 & full time. Swift FX Mask, S8 Elite 2.

I do understand how the AI increases & the HI slightly decrease & yet the overall AHI stays practically the same. Is increasing the pressure a bad idea? Is it not better to have lower AI's & higher Hi's as opposed to Higher AI's & lower Lower HI's if the AHI is almost the same in the end? How am I suppose to lower both of these, if increasing pressure just lowers the Hi & raises the Ai's? Also the time in apneas seems to increase with pressure.

Thanks. Rick

Initial Setting----------------------------------------------------------------First minor increase-----------------------------------------------------Second minor increase

Pressure 6.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pressure 7.0 ------------------------------------------------------------Pressure 7.6

Apnea Index 3.2 ------------------------------------------------------------Apnea Index 4.5---------------------------------------------------------Apnea Index 7.0
Hypopnea index 10.2-------------------------------------------------------Hypopnea index 9.2-----------------------------------------------------Hypopnea index 6.4
AHI 13.4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------AHI 13.7------------------------------------------------------------------AHI 13.4
% time in apnea 1.2 ------------------------------------------------------ % Time in Apnea 1.9-----------------------------------------------------% Time in Apnea 2.8

Leak Median 0.0-------------------------------------------------------------Leak Median 2.4----------------------------------------------------------Leak Median 0.0
95 percentile 9.6-------------------------------------------------------------95 percentile 21.6--------------------------------------------------------95 percentile 19.2
Maximum 20.4-------------------------------------------------------------- Maximum 22.8---------------------------------------------------------- Maximum 26.4

Usage 9.39 Hours------------------------------------------------------------Usage 6.34 Hours---------------------------------------------------------Usage 5.34 Hours

You probably should concentrate on the AI numbers. When you find the pressure that gives you the lowest AI, you can then tweak a little more to see what happens with the AHI.

Keep in mind that the S8 scores HI a little higher than other machines and its scoring was changed with the S9.

Go back to day 1 settings and LEAVE THEM ALONE for at least a week. There is no point to making setting changes after only 1 night.