12-25-2015, 07:09 PM
Unused upper APAP limit falls for Mask Fit
In ckingzzzs's thread started 12/3/15 he and commenter stoopidmonkey and others touch on the subject of this report of mine. The bold font in italics indicates my main point.
As a struggling newbie (driven by home-study-device desats to 66% about 100 days ago while fighting large leaks from 5-20 APAP repeatedly maxing at 20) I stumbled into this report from a ResMed tech who had to talk to their engineering people for an answer.
My DME guy is sharp and has had his own sleep lab. I complained to him that the A10 had become defective. It quit running pressure up to nearly 20, as I wanted to continue for the mask fit function (APAP mode). Fixated on my leak problem, I had seen pressure consistently falling from near 20 by punching "the (selector) button" near max pressure instant of Mask Fit.
DME guy called ResMed and soon handed the phone to me. The first tech inquired up the tech hierarchy and came back with the report that the A10 Autoset programming (after a number of sleep sessions) reduces the upper limit of Mask Fit pressure to a point with some margin above your 95% (or max demanded) pressure.
Then, for a few sessions, I even switched to CPAP and set (fixed) pressure to 20 and used it for mask fit--being careful to reset the A10 to approx. APAP Rx immediately afterward. Meanwhile, I applied advice here on Forum and got leaks and AHI down as I have reported.
I'm just now getting reasonably adept as using the Forum Search so I assume those with only my low skill and knowledge levels need all the help they can get.
The Forum is saturated with good and generous resources and advisors--almost overwhelmingly. With those, with fitting hardware, and with use of software (SleepyHead for me) to learn the ropes and enable advisors you can "get back to sleep"--more restful sleep, if apneas are your problem.
Meanwhile, as flurries of new posts come by, adding to great, diverse and deep archives, I shamelessly claim that it may be worth a fellow newbie's look at my few posts and comments, mostly on pressure and leaks: one struggling man's nearly 90-day journey to some zeroes from an RDI(AHI) in the 50's. You would see good advice I've received from this Forum. Gotta hope my CMS50I arrives soon as I hope my sleep study O2 desaturations down to 66%, and far too often below 88%, have been eliminated.
The "Keep on keeping on!" cliché is apt.
As a struggling newbie (driven by home-study-device desats to 66% about 100 days ago while fighting large leaks from 5-20 APAP repeatedly maxing at 20) I stumbled into this report from a ResMed tech who had to talk to their engineering people for an answer.
My DME guy is sharp and has had his own sleep lab. I complained to him that the A10 had become defective. It quit running pressure up to nearly 20, as I wanted to continue for the mask fit function (APAP mode). Fixated on my leak problem, I had seen pressure consistently falling from near 20 by punching "the (selector) button" near max pressure instant of Mask Fit.
DME guy called ResMed and soon handed the phone to me. The first tech inquired up the tech hierarchy and came back with the report that the A10 Autoset programming (after a number of sleep sessions) reduces the upper limit of Mask Fit pressure to a point with some margin above your 95% (or max demanded) pressure.
Then, for a few sessions, I even switched to CPAP and set (fixed) pressure to 20 and used it for mask fit--being careful to reset the A10 to approx. APAP Rx immediately afterward. Meanwhile, I applied advice here on Forum and got leaks and AHI down as I have reported.
I'm just now getting reasonably adept as using the Forum Search so I assume those with only my low skill and knowledge levels need all the help they can get.
The Forum is saturated with good and generous resources and advisors--almost overwhelmingly. With those, with fitting hardware, and with use of software (SleepyHead for me) to learn the ropes and enable advisors you can "get back to sleep"--more restful sleep, if apneas are your problem.
Meanwhile, as flurries of new posts come by, adding to great, diverse and deep archives, I shamelessly claim that it may be worth a fellow newbie's look at my few posts and comments, mostly on pressure and leaks: one struggling man's nearly 90-day journey to some zeroes from an RDI(AHI) in the 50's. You would see good advice I've received from this Forum. Gotta hope my CMS50I arrives soon as I hope my sleep study O2 desaturations down to 66%, and far too often below 88%, have been eliminated.
The "Keep on keeping on!" cliché is apt.
I have no particular qualifications or expertise with respect to the apnea/cpap/sleep related content of my posts beyond my own user experiences and what I've learned from others on this site. Each of us bears the burden of evaluating the validity and applicability of what we read here before acting on it.
Of my 3 once-needed, helpful, and adjunctive devices I have listed, only the accelerometer remains operative (but now idle). My second CMS50I died, too, of old age and the so-so Dreem 2 needs head-positioning band repair--if, indeed, Dreem even supports use of it now.
Of my 3 once-needed, helpful, and adjunctive devices I have listed, only the accelerometer remains operative (but now idle). My second CMS50I died, too, of old age and the so-so Dreem 2 needs head-positioning band repair--if, indeed, Dreem even supports use of it now.
