I had been staying with my mom for a month and helping manage her care, but I left about 9 days ago. Right after I left my sister got the ASV (Aircurve 10 ASV) machine straightened out. It came set up, but I don’t know the settings. She had to argue with the DME rep, that the BIPAP was the wrong mac...

Her min pressure on the APAP has been 11 for at least maybe 5 or 6 months now. I don’t remember what it was before that, or if it changed. But like I say, when they started her out on that Luna we had the sense that her poor compliance was linked to her trouble breathing out. Maybe she just couldn’t...

To be clear, we only used the BIPAP they gave us by mistake for that one night. That OSCAR data was scary. We’ve fallen back to the old Airsense 10 APAP. We will scream bloody murder about the wrong machine and bad setup. Hopefully they have an ASV they can give us, and soon.

Oh yes, I was thinking of replacing the bed with a sofa a lot when I first came down here. But I stopped thinking about it, clear that mom would flip out and balk and be angry. Much better when she’s calm and cooperative! It’s so funny, at night she wants the bed. I try to encourage her to sleep on ...

We have a ball that comes apart and can clamp on the fabric. One night, back when she was willing to try it, she woke up in the night, got some scissors, cut the fabric around the ball, and put the shirt back on with a hole in it. We’ve got a “noodle” pillow, but that’s minimally effective. We just ...

I think we’ll drop back to the Airsense 10 APAP until we get the ASV machine. Then we’ll no doubt need to figure out the settings ourselves.

Bloody hell. And damn these DMEs. She definitely just pulled the numbers out of her butt. I took a photo of the papers she had, and the scrip was this: “Auto ASV EPAP 10-15 CWP PS 4-15 CWP” It took weeks and weeks to get her out here to deliver the wrong machine (wrong machine twice in the same visi...

Yeah, on the front of the machine it says “Aircurve 10 VAuto”

Oh damn. The DME rep who delivered the machine was very nice, but it seemed perhaps minimally knowledgeable. Maybe that’s why we’ve got more CAs than ever! It’s going to take weeks to get her back out here I bet. So the settings she set it up for were: mode: VAuto Max IPAP 20.0 Min EPAP 10.0 PS 10.0...

Mode says “VAuto”

I looked at the modes in the setup menu, and the other choices were “CPAP” and “S” so I think the mode is correct.

I tried clicking on PS in the setup menu and it doesn’t give any option besides setting one number, not a range.

Yeah, I read the print on the back of the Machine: Airsense 10. She had an Aircurve out in her car. They look the same except black/white. She often takes a morning nap on the sofa, which is on her side — always the nicest OSCAR data we ever get. The ASV in this situation looks actually worse than t...

OK, I’ve posted about my 88 year old mom before. The saga continues. (I use an APAP myself but rarely need to post on my own behalf. My therapy is going great) So mom’s apnea is REALLY bad when she back sleeps. My sister lives with her so she can manage her meds and the PAP. My sister got a big surg...

My wife has been using the Phillips Dreamstation and then -> Dreamstation 2 after their recall. For maybe about 10 years, Phillips. About 2 minutes after reading the December ProPublica article about Phillips fudging their data to FDA and having formaldehyde in the air stream, I ordered her an Airse...

Yeah, cutting power from battery to machine had no effect. It might have been from change in elevation. The second night at high elevation it was better but still not usable. Then back down to sea level and it’s fine.

My wife is traveling with her Transcend Mini. It has gone crazy, Pressure goes probably higher than 20 it seems, just crazy high. It kind of pulses somewhat randomly, goes that high then goes down, in a slower than breathing rhythm and also pretty random. The high pressure is too much to stand, and ...