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Been a bipap awhile now and still waking up feeling foggy with headaches, fatigue, and some days I just feel like I am in a flashback rather than in my actual body. Often I think about just quitting because I dont remember feeling worse than I do when I am on the machine.
Please let me know if you see anything that stands out and have any suggestions that might make me feel better. I use a evora FF mask if that helps.
New to posting, so let me know if I need to clean the charts up.
You show most of what we need on your charts, but at the top should be Event Flags, and at the bottom should be Flow Limits. We don't need to see Snore.
I'm sorry to hear that you are feeling lousy. When new to this, most people need some time to adjust to all the changes pap use brings about; having a foreign object attached to their face and head and having air blow up their noses through a hose. Your numbers are wonderfully low and that's great!
Please don't quit! Using your machines is too important to your health for you to give it up. Please give it more time.
Thanks for the feedback. Ive been on Bipap for about 2 years now. I hardly ever get above 1 AHI, unless it is centrals when I mess with the settings. Though I go through good and bad spouts of sleep, I have never in that time ever woken up feeling refreshed and well rested. The bad sleep spots I hit, at which I am currently, are awful. I feel like I am hungover.
The doctors feedback is always that my numbers are great and everything looks good. Ive tried masks, settings, diets, doctors, aids...but it always is the same.
With your occasional CA, try Trigger High. No other timing changes.
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(08-14-2024, 12:47 PM)DreadPirateRawburts Wrote: Does anyone mess with the Inhale, exhale, Cycle and Trigger settings or is it best to just keep as is?
Feel free to try different settings -- but do so slowly. And don't make more than one change at a time. You need to figure out what works and what does not work. I have made a lot of changes to try and find what works. When you get the AHI low enough, the actual score no longer matters. What matters most is 'how do you feel'.
I recently raised my PS Min from 2.4 to 2.6 (the minimum amount it could be raised). I went from 7.5 hours of sleep to 5.25 hours of sleep. I was dragging in the morning but finally did wake up and was not sleepy all day. Six days later, I changed it back to 2.4. Your machine is different than my ASV machine, and I'm not familiar with trigger settings, so I don't know what to tell you -- other than, yes, experiment to find what works for you. And I've never received any help from the doctors or the DME.
I have been playing with the settings and my centrals seem to get worse. i used an 02 monitor and had it drop below 85% at some points. ANy suggestions? I have had some tell me I need more pressure and some tell me its too high.
