Change in Pressure
Hi Everyone
My husband has been using the Philips Rem Star Pro for approx a year with a Quatro full face mask. His original pressure was set at 6%. He has been snoring and choking over the last few months and so has just had a new sleep study done (last night) Firstly, I was a little surprised that they did not want to even check his machine to see if it was working correctly, or even read the card. Surely the whole purpose of having a card in the machine that is recording this data is important to look at.
Anyway, the tech told my husband that he had finally got the pressure set at 12% and to me that seems a huge increase from 6% to 12%. Also the tech advised that the pressure is dependent on the mask type also. So now he has to go back to the Dr to read his test results and prepare a new script, but I am a little concerned about the huge increase in pressure and the fact that if the pressure depends on the type of mask, what was the point in them asking him to select 2 different ones for home use.
Is there software available that will read your card from the CPAP machine and tell you what is what if you do not have a degree in CPAP card reading?
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
Mirry
RE: Change in Pressure
Hi Mirryt,
WELCOME! to the forum.!
What DeepBreathing said.
Hang in there for more answers to your questions and best of luck to you and your husband.
trish6hundred
RE: Change in Pressure
I suspect it's a matter of changes in your husband over time. What is right for him is indicated by the sleep test they did. I would not be alarmed going from 6 to 12 anymore than he was going from zero to 6 in the beginning or I was alarmed when they first gave me a machine and I went from zero my whole life to 14.
RE: Change in Pressure
At least you got started........my Mac won't allow me to download the Sleepyhead stuff. Says it's from an unauthorized user (not from a Mac store) or some such nonsense. I'm a dork when it comes to that stuff anyway, so it's pretty typical for me unfortunately. I love numbers and so wish I could see the data.
I am getting the basic stuff from the LCD screen on my machine but would love to see the graphs.
I think if you cruise around here like I plan to do, you can learn alot about the various measurements/readings.
RE: Change in Pressure
Buckeyedog -- While I'm not a Mac person, I do know that there's a way to turn that restriction off and allow you to install 3rd party software on the Mac's. You may want to investigate that.
MirryT -- Since your unit is a Pro model (Fixed CPAP) Don't worry at all about the Pressure graphs and the AHI graph is kinda useless there's something weird going on with the AHI.
Concentrate on the leak graph first and if it looks good (fairly straight line) then look at the breakdown of the events.
RE: Change in Pressure
Thanks Bama and you are exactly right! ShelaghDB helped me last night and I did have to change the security setting, so I now have it loaded on there. Now just have to see if it'll read my card today after work. Thanks again for your help.
RE: Change in Pressure
@buckeyedog,
Sleepyhead works great with my Mac, sure helps to keep track of how you are doing.