[CPAP] xirokx - Therapy Thread

[quiescence at last]

For most it just takes some time, and reasonable settings. You got the machine set, now log that time.

QAL

[xirokx]

The latest posts show there is some, small, amount of OAs, some, small, amount of H. Increasing the minimum pressure from 7 (might) show a decrease in those numbers.

Since you see snoring aligned so well with flow limitations, a pressure adjustment would make sense.

The machine likes to adjust when the OA and flow limitations are occurring, and those seem to be at time when your pressure is under about 8.0 to 8.4. When your machine reacted to the first set of events, the pressure vaulted to around 12, but what if you could prevent those occurrences (which were happening when the pressure was still about 7.0 to 8.0)?

It makes some sense, therefore, to pick a minimum pressure of 8.6, to skip most of those environments.

Thus ends my version of learning opportunity.

Hope you get more restful sleep now that most of the condensation has been whipped!

QAL

Thank you both 

How do you learn to interpret the graphs like that?  To like 8.6 how can you be so accurate? Genuinely curious 

I have set the min pressure to 8.6 will report back in a few days

[Deborah K.]

I suggest that you also raise your high pressure setting to 13 or 14. You are bumping against the 12 pretty often, so you need a little higher setting.

[xirokx]

Last night I changed min pressure to 8.6 , all other settings were the same and I felt very dry. So in the middle of the night I changed tube temp from 26 to 25 and still felt dry. I am still keeping humidity off and there is no water in the tub.

Any ideas whats happening pls? Let me know if you need me to upload stats screenshot from Oscar

Thanks

[G. Szabo]

Put distilled water in the chamber and set the humidity to Auto.

[xirokx]

Put distilled water in the chamber and set the humidity to Auto.

My room is very humid (55-65%) as it is and even on a humidity setting of 1 i get rain out...

Out of curiosity what's the difference between using boiled kettle water, distilled water and tap water?

Thanks

[G. Szabo]

My room is very humid (55-65%) as it is and even on a humidity setting of 1 i get rain out...

Out of curiosity what's the difference between using boiled kettle water, distilled water and tap water?

Thanks

Distilled water has no salts, leading to no deposit in the chamber. 
Boiled (and filtered after boiling) tap water or well water will leave no deposit in the chamber as long as it is not run completely dry. Hot water can remove this deposit. 
Tap or well water leave  deposits in the chamber, which vinegar can remove. However, prolonged use of vinegar might damage the chamber's metal (aluminum).

[xirokx]

Distilled water has no salts, leading to no deposit in the chamber. 
Boiled (and filtered after boiling) tap water or well water will leave no deposit in the chamber as long as it is not run completely dry. Hot water can remove this deposit. 
Tap or well water leave  deposits in the chamber, which vinegar can remove. However, prolonged use of vinegar might damage the chamber's metal (aluminum).

What humidity setting would you use with distilled water? As previously even a humidity of 1 , caused rainout in my hose...

Thanks for your help

[G. Szabo]

Distilled water has no practical influence on humidity settings. Use a hose cover from Amazon to prevent heat loss and condensation in the heated hose.

[SarcasticDave94]

Humidity and mask filling was discussed over here

https://www.apneaboard.com/forums/Thread...y-settings