(06-15-2017, 12:12 PM)Marillion Wrote:

(06-15-2017, 12:06 PM)Crustycabs Wrote: Don't really know how to do that.

(06-15-2017, 11:48 AM)pholynyk Wrote: Your stats page looks a bit like mine in one respect: The hypopneas go way up when EPR is turned off. OTOH, your centrals also went up, which doesn't happen for me.

This suggest to me that you may do better with some EPR, and a lower max pressure. This may require some fiddling. If you think of EPR as creating a bi-level machine, earlier you had minEPAP at 6 and maxIPAP at 9. With your current setting you have minEPAP and maxIPAP both at 9. I'm suggesting that you change your pressures so that maxIPAP gets reduced - to reduce the CA, and your minEPAP doesn't go below 6, to keep OA down. Make changes slowly, to allow your body to get used to the changes.

Also consider other people's advice; some of them know a lot more than I do.

Press the home button and power button at the same time and hold.  That will take you into the Clinical settings.  You can then make the changes from there.

(06-15-2017, 07:01 PM)quiescence at last Wrote: not to me a nay sayer, but looks like you probably be better at lower EPR for the short term, and must consider that the exhale pressure is the level that should be raised to fight against obstructive apnea, that the difference between inhale pressure and exhale pressure (about equal to the EPR setting) is more likely to cause Hypopneas and CA events the higher the number.

I would do the following if I had same results:

1. make EPR = 1, for 1 cm of pressure relief.
2. make min pressure equal 7 so that the inhale is 7 cm and exhale pressure is [7 minus 1] equal to 6 cm.
3. make maximum pressure to equal to 9, so that we can see where the machine will adjust and how this variation can make results better/worse.

These settings should be more satisfying than either of the last two settings.

Retain the same setting for more than 4 days so that we see what the collective average is.

good luck,

QAL

(06-15-2017, 07:01 PM)quiescence at last Wrote: not to be a nay sayer, but looks like you probably be better at lower EPR for the short term, and must consider that the exhale pressure is the level that should be raised to fight against obstructive apnea, that the difference between inhale pressure and exhale pressure (about equal to the EPR setting) is more likely to cause Hypopneas and CA events the higher the number.

I would do the following if I had same results:

1. make EPR = 1, for 1 cm of pressure relief.
2. make min pressure equal 7 so that the inhale is 7 cm and exhale pressure is [7 minus 1] equal to 6 cm.
3. make maximum pressure to equal to 9, so that we can see where the machine will adjust and how this variation can make results better/worse.

These settings should be more satisfying than either of the last two settings.

Retain the same setting for more than 4 days so that we see what the collective average is.

good luck,

QAL

(06-17-2017, 02:17 PM)quiescence at last Wrote: your machine is in the CPAP mode, and that only give you one pressure, the "set" pressure.  It also has a start pressure for easing into sleep where the set pressure gradually is reached.  I believe you should change the mode of therapy to "Autoset" mode which causes the machine to change pressure to balance needs.  Once you select that, your should have start pressure, min pressure, and max pressure.

QAL