(03-12-2017, 01:41 PM)chill Wrote:(03-12-2017, 04:11 AM)Hydrangea Wrote: What do you mean by "to see if it improves your breathing"? What would improvement look like? More consistent rhythm? Not shallow breathing? Or just decreasing the precursors of apneas?
Decreasing the precursors. The pressure of anything other than ASV is not enough to meaningfully affect the inflation of your lungs.
Ah ok.
I feel so bad for following up with more questions... but I really want to understand what is going on when I sleep with something every night. <snicker>
So what is the purpose of the pressure from a CPAP? Does it just remind the throat to let air pass? And some people need higher pressures because their throats are weaker/stronger?
Sleeprider - So a CPAP/APAP does not offer "pressure support", rather it offers "pressure"? I really have not comprehended what pressure support is, and how it varies from the Flex setting on my machine.