[Diagnosis] New User, can any advise?

[vikster]

Hi there,

Was diagnosed with moderate sleep apnea (21 AHI) and have been using the Resmed Autosense 10 for the past month. 

The pressure range is set from 5-20, and reading some of the messages here it seems like I should reduce that range.

Here's my data from last night:
   

And the data from one night prio:r 

   


Any advise on the pressure settings or any other settings I could tweak?

Thanks,

Vik

[upsman]

Having an EPR of 3 cm with a minimum pressure of 5 cm isn't doing you a lot of good. The lowest pressure the machine can provide is 4 cm. 
I think your minimum is too low and you might do better at a minimum of 7 or even 8 cm. Then reduce your EPR by 1 cm to start possibly go down by 2 if your centrals don't respond. I would also turn the ramp feature off and see how you feel. 

This is just a suggestion that wouldn't hurt anything and might reduce your obstructive events. 
I'm sure others will be along shortly to offer advice.

[Gideon]

Welcome to the forum.
Your Pressure increases are being driven by your OA events. We need to increase your exhale pressures to better manage those.

3 changes
Set Min Pressure = 8 to better treat your OA events
Set Ramp Pressure = 7 to allow all values of EPR to be fully functional during the ramp.
Set EPR = 2, a reduction to see if we can reduce the instance of your CA events.

Try this and let's see how this works out
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[vikster]

Thank you both. Made the changes, will try these settings out for a few nights and report back.