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[CPAP] jdougc - Therapy Assistance
#41
RE: jdougc - Therapy Assistance
I trust you had some bad dreams not related to your treatment. 

Although some might say you are fine because your FL is 0.02 and AHI is below 1, you might be able to tune these further down with some additional tweaking if you want. Hence, I suggest repeating the AUTO titration to see your optimized pressure indicated by the instrument. Leave the instrument in the AUTO regime and increase the pressure max to 11.2 cm.
 
In my personal experience, humidity 2 with hose temperature 26 is too dry. You might want to consider a humidity 3 or 4 setting.
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RE: jdougc - Therapy Assistance
G. Szabo,
Thanks for looking over my charts again, again and again! I will repeat the APAP regime and increase the pressure max to 11.2 cm as you suggested. 
I don't have a dry mouth or dry nostrils, but I will increase my humidity to 3. I have a humidifier on my furnace so our house is not very dry. I didn't use the cpap machine humidifier at all during the late summer and early fall as it can be very humid here.
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#43
RE: jdougc - Therapy Assistance
G. Szabo,
Thanks for looking over my charts.
Not sure why, but I could not relax with these settings. After I lowered the max pressure and lowered the humidity back to 2, I was able to fall asleep easily. The pillow cushion is newer, as is the soft cervical collar. Maybe I am still getting used to them. I cried out again at 3:23 AM, haha.
I attached the 1st part of the night separately.
   
   
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RE: jdougc - Therapy Assistance
You might belong to people who do not tolerate pressure adjustments or EPR. 
 
Your flow limit has improved with your last setting; hence, I believe you can settle for a while with the following settings and observe your feelings.
Mode: APAP
MIn  & MAx pressures: 10.6 cm
EPR off

It would be best to observe the flow limit value in addition to your feelings. You can fine-tune and optimize the above pressure setting by increasing/decreasing it in 0.2 cm steps.
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RE: jdougc - Therapy Assistance
G. Szabo,
I might indeed be one of those that are not tolerent of pressure adjustments. I have been on cpap mode without EPR or what other companies call it, since 2018.
0.2 cm steps, as you suggest might work for me.  I will try that next week after I settle in with these changes.
I do think that apap could be a great tool for some.
Thanks for your time and help, stay safe.
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RE: jdougc - Therapy Assistance
To clarify, APAP with the same min/max pressure is identical to CPAP with the same pressure. You improved because of the increased pressure. 
The only advantage of APAP, in this case, is that you will need fewer steps to re-check your settings by temporarily allowing a slightly increased Inhalation pressure and letting the instrument find the optimum.
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