New to therapy, not going well
Hello to everyone. I am new to this whole cpap business. I have been at it since Christmas. The first month I considered it went well but now i concerned that things are going backwards. My AHI has climbed from 4.8 to 6. I do have Sleephead on my computer and I must admit that I don't understand much of it but what I see is my OBA is almost zero but I have CSA that has showed up. Can anyone advise me on a machine that will treat CSA as my Airsense 10 Auto is not doing it for me. I can buy a new old Resmed S9 VPAP ST. Would this fix the CSA? Any help appreciated.
03-04-2018, 09:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-04-2018, 09:52 AM by Walla Walla.
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RE: New to therapy, not going well
First step is to post a chart from SleepyHead. The link below explains how to do that.
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RE: New to therapy, not going well
[attachment=4706][attachment=4706]Hope this works.
03-04-2018, 10:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-04-2018, 10:43 AM by Sleeprider.)
RE: New to therapy, not going well
Your machine is set from 7 to 20 with EPR 3, and all events are central. This is easy to fix. Turn off EPR and the centrals will go away. Looks like you can get by with a pressure range of 6.0 to 10.0
RE: New to therapy, not going well
(03-04-2018, 10:29 AM)Sleeprider Wrote: Your machine is set from 7 to 20 with EPR 3, and all events are central. This is easy to fix. Turn off EPR and the centrals will go away. Looks like you can get by with a pressure range of 6.0 to 10.0
I think it is set to EPR ramp only. would this not be as good as epr off? I'm very new to all this.
RE: New to therapy, not going well
(03-04-2018, 11:39 AM)mjoereid Wrote: (03-04-2018, 10:29 AM)Sleeprider Wrote: Your machine is set from 7 to 20 with EPR 3, and all events are central. This is easy to fix. Turn off EPR and the centrals will go away. Looks like you can get by with a pressure range of 6.0 to 10.0
I think it is set to EPR ramp only. would this not be as good as epr off? I'm very new to all this.
If you look at the Pressure line, and then the EPAP line, you can see that EPR is set to always on as they are always apart by 3.
Turn it off completely, is Sleeprider's suggestion.
03-04-2018, 12:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-04-2018, 12:30 PM by Sleeprider.)
RE: New to therapy, not going well
Notice the pressure summary, mask pressure and what is visible of the pressure line, all show the use of EPR 3 full time. It would show up in the summary if you turned off the pie chart. See the link in my signature on Organizing your Sleepyhead Charts. You can get rid of the AHI graph and mask pressure, and move some more useful graphs into their place.
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RE: New to therapy, not going well
Thanks everyone. I will give it a try.
RE: New to therapy, not going well
So here is last nights report with epr off. Much better but not super great. Any more ideas?
RE: New to therapy, not going well
That look's a lot better! I think with time those CA events will disappear.
