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Couple months in.. how does it look? Any recommendations?
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Couple months in.. how does it look? Any recommendations?
These are from 9/12 which was the last one I could find that looked goot do me:

   

   

This is from 9/19 with major leaks.. time to shave I guess.

   
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RE: Couple months in.. how does it look? Any recommendations?
I suspect you have "positional apnea", info of which you can search for here, but essentially a load of people find that wearing a cervical collar (or similar) when sleeping prevents "chin tuck" which helps keep the flow limits right down.
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RE: Couple months in.. how does it look? Any recommendations?
May I ask what graph are you looking to get to that conclusion?

Not saying you aare wrong, just want to learn to interpret them graphs.
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RE: Couple months in.. how does it look? Any recommendations?
I don't see any positional apnea.  That shows on the graphs when obstructive apneas or hypopneas show up clustered together.  It's not happening here.

You do have high flow limits.  If you have not already done so, turn EPR on, and set it at 3.  This will make your breathing easier, and as flow limits are short duration apneas, we want to lower them.

Since you are bumping up against 20, if you are using EPR 3 already, it may indicate that you need a different type of machine.  Let us know.
Machine:  ResMed AirCurve 10 Vauto
Mask:  Bleep DreamPort Sleep Solution
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RE: Couple months in.. how does it look? Any recommendations?
What I really don't like about using EPR is that the mask will "sink" on my face while exhaling.

It's a weird feeling having te mas moving up and down when breathing. Any suggestion for that?

Also, those min/max pressures where "guesstimates" I set a while ago and went with them.. do they look ok or should I change any of them?
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