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[CPAP] Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
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Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
Hi, All -- I have successfully been using CPAP for 15 years. Just got a new Dreamstation and am having great trouble with the so-called comfort settings. I cannot stand hearing myself breathing. I am on a setting of 8. On the comfort menu, there is a "button" for C-Flex off and beside it a button for C-Flex numbers. Mine are set to off and 1. I want it completely off. If it says off and 1, is it really off? (My old RemMaster Pro M series does not have this breathing sound that keeps me awake.) Help! PLEASE!
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RE: Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
Agree, if it says off, then it should be off.

Order your Clinicians manual here.
https://www.apneaboard.com/adjust-cpap-p...tup-manual

The hearing your own breathing issue annoys me too. I’ve always used some sort of white noise in my bedroom, like a fan or humidifier.
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RE: Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
Your profile says you are not using a humidifier. I had a noise problem with my older PR 560 when I tried not using the humidifier when dry camping in our trailer using a battery pack. I found out using passover humidification (water in the tank but no heat there and heated hose turned off) made a difference. Others with PR machines have reported the same thing.
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RE: Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
Thank you for the idea. I just sent for the manual.

Never thought of that. Thanks.
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RE: Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
(06-11-2019, 01:26 PM)O2ZZZZ Wrote: Thank you for the idea. I just sent for the manual.

Never thought of that. Thanks.


A lot of new folk don’t know they can order a Clinicians manual. Link at top of every page.
This manual will show you how to get into that secret menu and make the changes you want. Smile
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RE: Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
Just got my manual!!! Thank you so much!  I made an appointment with my sleep doctor who is too willing to see me for two seconds to change the settings on my CPAP when I can do it myself in 2 seconds!
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RE: Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
(06-27-2019, 12:06 PM)whyme? Wrote: Just got my manual!!! Thank you so much!  I made an appointment with my sleep doctor who is too willing to see me for two seconds to change the settings on my CPAP when I can do it myself in 2 seconds!

Where’s your compassion? If you’re doing this yourself, how can the doc charge your insurance for his boat or RV payment?

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I know! Right!
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RE: Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
A humidifier will help dull the sound.
mask fit http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php...ask_Primer
For auto-cpap, from machine data or software. You can set the min pressure 1 or 2cm below 95%. Or clinicians commonly use the maximum or 95% pressure for fixed pressure CPAP, this can also be used for min pressure.
https://aasm.org/resources/practiceparam...rating.pdf
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RE: Comfort Setting for NO FLEX??
Yes, if it says off then it's off (even though the other one says 1).

I sleep better (and feel better during the day) with the flex/EPR off.
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