tedburnsIII wrote:
Can OP or anyone explain setting an APAP pressure of 13/13? I don't understand such a setting.
1...trying a single pressure which happens to be the "official" RXtwhat came out of an in lab sleep titration study. When in auto mode and a moderate range the machine didn't seem to want to go to 13 all that often but figured might as well try what was "officially" suggested. Sometimes the official pressure works and sometimes it doesn't. Mine was way off but when having problems it hurts nothing to try all available options and that's what is going on here. Trying to maybe reduce the events on the chance the events are causing the wake ups but it's a long shot.
2...trying a single pressure to eliminate varying pressures being a factor in leaks and sleep quality (causing those wake ups).
3...with this machine if we switch to cpap mode that turns off the Flow limitation flagging which we would like to have available just in case. I recommend this apap minimum to equal maximum often when people are using the PR S1 apaps so we don't lose that data point. Not important with other brands since it doesn't happen with the other brands.
I think most of the above were discussed earlier in this thread.
The leaks we still are scratching our heads over. Even with taping the mouth and the tape being secure when she wakes up we can't figure out what is going on.
We don't know why the crappy sleep...it may be totally unrelated to sleep apnea...sleep maintenance insomnia doesn't just target OSA patients...it can target anyone.
But since there was some room for improvement on the reports we figured we might as well try to improve things in hopes it would help sleep quality.
Went up slowly to the RX'd pressure of 13 because the increases made for a little bit of discomfort when trying to get to sleep and since her sleep was already fragile we didn't want to add to the problem.
To OP...your additional sizes of the nasal pillows should arrive tomorrow according to the post office. Maybe a different size will be more secure.
Forgive me but I may have already asked this question and I don't have time to go back through the entire thread ....but do you take any meds for any reason?....and do you by chance have issues with arthritis or fibromyalgia like discomfort?
And one more question...have you ever taken anything to help stay asleep?
Thank you for doing the awake leak test for me...I was hoping that maybe we simply had a hole in the hose but it doesn't look like we got lucky in that regard.
I am still scratching my head on how to get the mask to be more stable. That amount of leak even though technically not in large leak territory all that long still bothers me.
Do you use a hose management system of some sort? If not, maybe something to try to help reduce hose pulling on the mask as a culprit.
I may have to RISE but I refuse to SHINE.
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