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11-25-2024, 04:53 PM (This post was last modified: 11-25-2024, 04:55 PM by super7pilot. Edited 1 time in total.)
Adjustments based on FL's?
I posted on another apnea forum about these confounded FL numbers. Most of the time my MAX FL number is a few moments at .33 (what ever that means)
But my 99.5 percentile with my pressures at 10-15cm with EPR-2 is .11
I adjusted my machine by changing to 11-16cm and upping the EPR to 3. my 99.5% FL's went to .09
Not much of a change but the CA's went up and an unknown apnea showed up as well. My AHI is still low. So I'm not worried but I see so much gnashing of teeth over ANY FL number that isn't zero. Tonight I'm going to leave the pressures alone and drop the EPR back to two.
As I said in my post at the other forum, some people are bothered by FLs and some aren't. To find out whether you are, you'd need to try EPR = 3 for multiple nights. As I also mentioned, the increase in EPR dropped your 95% FL number from .03 to .00.
Both EPR and pressure increases raise the chance of CAs because of the resulting higher O2/CO2 ratio in the blood. It is no wonder you increased your events (primarily CAs) by simultaneously increasing both of these parameters.
(11-25-2024, 07:39 PM)Dormeo Wrote: As I said in my post at the other forum, some people are bothered by FLs and some aren't. To find out whether you are, you'd need to try EPR = 3 for multiple nights. As I also mentioned, the increase in EPR dropped your 95% FL number from .03 to .00.
I'm not sure what you're looking for here.
just trying to clarify in my mind the correlation of FL’s/EPR’s/Pressures.
Having worked in electronics for nuclear weapon’s systems. I’m rather unaccustomed to dealing with numbers on a scale that have no real correlation to the scale said numbers are on.