11-10-2022, 09:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2022, 09:36 PM by narual.)
RE: Gotta love my Sleep Doctor
Nice!
I’m going to steal your doctors note as a template to give my wife’s doc along with the Oscar data so they don’t confuse the GD DME yet again.
Edit* — shouldn’t that be inches of water, not centimeters? If it’s actually CMs, that’s a really low starting pressure at 3.4 inches, isn’t it?
RE: Gotta love my Sleep Doctor
(11-10-2022, 09:31 PM)narual Wrote: Edit* — shouldn’t that be inches of water, not centimeters? If it’s actually CMs, that’s a really low starting pressure at 3.4 inches, isn’t it?
It's centimeters. 3.4 inches is equivalent to 8.6 cm. The lowest pressure setting possible is 4 cm.
That may be a low starting pressure for some people, but not for others. I start at 9.6 cm.
Sleepster
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RE: Gotta love my Sleep Doctor
Ahh, apologies. I was misremembering the comparison here:
http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php...leep_apnea —
Quote: One thing about the machine that doesn't get mentioned very often is that it can move what seems to be a lot of air, but only at very low pressure. To be exact, if you take a straw and hold it in a glass of water with about two or three inches under water, and then blow 'just hard enough' to create a gentle stream of bubbles, you will have about the pressure a lot of people use in their CPAP machines. If you have a very long straw, and can dunk it 8 inches into the water, the pressure required for that gentle stream of bubbles is the maximum most people's machines can create.
