why is my Respiratory rate high?

[cathyf]

Koy, I have a very old thread on this... http://www.apneaboard.com/forums/Thread-...-your-data

When you have the high respiration rate and you look at a closeup -- maybe 4-8 minutes -- do you see the wildly jaggy flow rate curve?

I've used three machines: an original A10 from 2014, a vauto from 2017, and now an Air11 since last March.

The Air10 had two software revisions.

What I saw when I moved from the original A10 to the vauto was that all the wild jaggies went away, except that later I realized that if I moved the trigger to very high I could make the vauto look just like the original Air10. When I got the Air11 it behaves very similarly to the vauto for me.

I think that the original algorithm has a very high trigger built into the EPR on the A10, and the 2nd version had a medium trigger.

And the Air11 software is the same as the 2nd Air10.

[koy23]

Thanks for the replies, I don't know the explanation of this: but setting the trigger to : High and Cycle: very High on Vauto is the ONLY combo that doesn't give me that spasm(sudden inhalation) on sleep onset.

I tried the other combos: trigger very high or medium or low and same as cycle, with everything else same, ipap, PS, EPAP and timax/min, and I get the sudden uncontrolled inhale as soon as I start drifting to sleep.

I think this has been the reason I was suffering to use the vauto from 4 years ago and led to my multiple surgeries that complicated things, it's like my body reacts immediately to a narrowing of airway and wake me up right away. Feom all the variables possible, the trigger/cycle were the biggest factor. 

I hope this helps someone