First post [how's my bilevel data?]
[attachment=8509]Good day all
This is my first post, i believe BIPAP is really helping me and would like to know a bit more about how my graphs look to the pro's
thanking you all for a tremendous and helpful forum.
Best regards
Ian
RE: First post
It looks like you have some of your event flags turned off on sleepyhead. Go down to the bottom left corner and make sure all the events are turned to green.
RE: First post
Hi Walla
Thank you very much for taking the time to look at my graph, hope this one is correct.
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RE: First post
The results shown here are very good, with mostly a couple hypopnea clusters and a couple UA that we generally assume to be obstructive events. We don't have any CPAP data to compare and your diagnosis appears to be predominately obstructive with some CA events noted. That's not a lot to go on. Your AHI is good and suggests efficacy at these settings. The respiratory statistics indicate good tidal volume and normal respiration rates and timing for inspiration and expiration. That leaves us with, how do you feel? Is your inspiration fully supported as long as you need? Is the therapy comfortable? Are you sleeping better? Has daily function and fatigue improved? These subjective metrics are equal in importance to the quantitative data and allow fine tuneing to your needs.
RE: First post
Hi Sleep rider
Thank you for your input
how do you feel? "Much Better"
Is your inspiration fully supported as long as you need? I had felt it wasn't but I increased Ti max to 2.4, this helped. ti min is at 0.6
Is the therapy comfortable? Also found it was not but after increasing the rise time from min to 250 ms I am sleeping better and not being woken up by the machine blasting me.
Are you sleeping better? Yes
Has daily function and fatigue improved? Definitely.
I probably need to run these settings for a week to really see how its going as they are recent adjustments, and I had an SD card failure so logging has had to start again.
regards
Ian
RE: First post
I'm impressed, you read between the lines in my comments and have already made the setting changes I would have contemplated. Well done!
RE: First post
Hi Sleep rider
Thank you very much, been reading a lot of posts where you have been incredibly helpful and conscious of our ailments. Greatly appreciated. Will let it run for a few days and let you know how it’s going
Best regards
Ian
