RE: AHI Summary
The last few nights you have been nowhere near the max pressure of 15 your maximum pressure there was 13.5 I would leave the settings where they are to settle for now and see what happens for a few more nights. Your Ahi is pretty good. A bit more minimum pressure may be needed to reduce the oa’s further, but time will tell. I don’t think there is much you can do about the tidal volume, unless sleeprider has any ideas
RE: AHI Summary
In my daily struggle to get a mask without leaks I went back to my very first mask, the Easy Life Nasal and after two days now I have had no leak issues. It seemed more comfortable than the F-20's I have used and much more comfortable than the Wisp nasal masks. I have seen my pressure creep up and occurrences of OA's increased. I went from 15 pressure to 16 after the increase. I am curious if I should set it at 20 max to handle any new increases? I am also very concerned with my Tidal Volume as it is exceptionally low. Sleeprider had a concern for that as well but in all honesty I have no idea what it means. I would greatly appreciate any answers and thoughts to help me improve my numbers. ( I wear a cervical collar and also tape my mouth)
Until I get a new DME I will have to hang onto this old System One. I am losing faith in that ever happening. I have now waited four weeks for my last DME in this area to get my new Resmed machine in and make a first appointment with my DME. Until then I will just have to work with what I have and my sleep doctor won't even answer an e-mail. He always has someone else do it......Michael
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RE: AHI Summary
Michael, looks like an improvement. I don't have a therapy suggestion, and your Vt is fine, but on the low side of normal. There is no way to do anything about it on CPAP anyway. A suggestion for your charts is to over-ride the Y-axis on flow rate and set the minimum to -100 and maximum to +100. Tidal volume can be set to 100 to 800. Changing scale on these graphs can really help you to see where changes are happening and makes the graphs look more consistent than the default auto-scaling.
With regard to pressure, the machine went to a maximum pressure of 14.7 even though your maximum setting was 16.0, so I don't see any reason to increase maximum pressure. As you probably know it is the minimum pressure that is used to prevent obstructive apnea, so if anything should change, it would be to increase that in 0.5 cm increments. All of your OA arises out of the current minimum pressure of 11.0.
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Sleeprider thanks as always. I bumped minimum to 11.5 as suggested. Thanks for the tip on y-axis. I didn't even know I could move them. As I originally said, my son gave me this System One a year ago and it was set up by his DME and I have only changed therapy settings. If there is a change I should make on any other charts please let me know. It's great finding out an old dog can learn new tricks!
I've meant to tell you even though I was born and raised in Cleveland, I love your city. I opened the Pittsburgh area up for my employer establishing bakery accounts like Bethel Bakery, Oakmont Bakery and all the other fine bakeries in eastern Pa. A great people town as well as sports. Hopefully my Brownies can re-establish the excitement in the games like we used to have with the Steelers. Your city Murrysville is a beautiful suburb. Have friends in the South Hills as well as Canonsburg. (just not a friend of the traffic)
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Michael, don't look now, but I grew up in Berea and my back yard butted up against what is now the Browns practice facility. We were family friends with the Grozas, so i was able to go the the Hiram training camps and meet all the great old Browns and coaches. I only disowned them after they were moved to Baltimore. The new team is a running joke due to the ownership.
Oakmont Bakery is the best.
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Lou the toe Groza. Man could he kick. Hated the move to Baltimore and detested the Ravens. Funny how the Steelers picked up the hatred for the Ravens. Cleveland's back this year. I predict they will win one game.
Oakmont is building a new facility .30,000 sq ft . I'll stop with this Facebook chatter but shows you what a small world this is. ..Michael
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I took up my minimum .05 as suggested but unfortunately my AHI went up and had 26 OA events. It seems like every mask I try works for 2 days and then things go to hell in a handbasket. Any thoughts?
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