-SWS wrote:Madalot wrote:Another night, another morning. Uneventful again. As has been typical in the last few days, I stayed on my side until about the last hour... The max EPAP was set to 12, but last night it barely hit 11 with the average being just above 9. Mollete's opinion that it isn't seeing much to change seems very likely, although only being supine for an hour doesn't give it a lot of time to worry about it.
True. You'll have plenty of time to test supine sleep. Congratulations on making it to the final setting of your auto-EPAP 9cm through 12cm exploration! If this final setting doesn't feel adverse, consider taking plenty of time to accumulate data (DirectView & oximetry) as well as your own subjective assessment. Then I'd suggest reverting back to your former AVAPS settings (fixed 9cm EPAP) for at least 3 or 4 days as you perform a side-by-side comparison. You might attempt to answer questions like these:
1) Which setting yields better DirectView efficacy?
2) Which setting yields better oximetry?
3) Which setting yields a better overall sleep experience?
4) Which setting yields better following-day symptoms?
Madalot wrote: I am uploading the data every day and occasionally putting files in Dropbox, if anyone is interested in looking at it from time to time. If a new link to it is necessary, drop me a PM or ask here and I'll provide it.
Are you periodically uploading to this Dropbox link or a different link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pnm43shsca1ggy8/Rxj81YMaji ?
I am still learning the "ins" and "outs" of dropbox. When I access the link for the file I created today, the link is DIFFERENT:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/00f2t15uts0pu ... 082013.zip
To everything else you suggested above, many thanks for all this input. I think you have fabulous insight into this and give excellent ideas & suggestions.
I plan to attempt to charge my pulse ox monitor, but admittedly without my desktop computer, it's not quite as easy as I would like. When I charge the netbook later today, I'll hook the monitor up to it and hope it charges okay.
I still have a few things to consider and/or take care of. Leaks while supine is a problem and one that I'm not positive is going to be easily solved. My mask is fine on my side, but man those leaks start pretty fast after getting supine.
I also do not know if I should try the Auto BMP feature and see where that gets me. I'm not sure it's really necessary.
I think your suggestion to get the AE settings where they seem good, then go back to regular AVAPS a few nights and look at the data to see which is better -- very smart idea. I will plan on doing that.
Maybe when I do, some of you experts wouldn't mind looking at the data to see what YOU see & think compared to my novice eyes.