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SUCCESS! I thought that it might be going along with your philosophy, to move EPAP from 9 to 9.5. My opinion is that IPAP doesn't need to change. Please let me know if you think that's okay. At this point I want to make sure I do exactly whatever you think I should do. I have this crazy urge to bring the AHI as low as possible. I would still be struggling if you never decided to help people in this way. I know it takes up a lot of your time and I appreciate it more than I can express. You're helping me live a life I didn't know I could live 3 months ago.
Thanks for the education . At this point, I couldn't imagine more comfort just the way it is. It's like the machine is hardly doing anything at all. This is probably because I was at 10 epap and 20 ipap for three months. By comparison, it's like someone was pressure washing my sinuses. Last night's report will follow this message
And, of course please recommend a bi-flex setting or lack there of.
I'm not using a timed ramp. I have never felt the need. Okay. I see what you mean about isolating various things. That's helpful. I've been wondering a long time about flex and bi-flex. The machine was preset to bi-flex on and there is a field that is labeled flex and that was preset on the numeral, 1. . The other choices were 2 and 3. Please explain bi-flex and the flex settings to me.
I may already have what it takes to get through the night. When I finally dropped the epap to 9, I was interrupted by a stuffy right nostril and a phone call. So I might just keep sleeping on 9/15 or (as it will be set tonight, 9/11. I believe you hit the nail on the head with 9/11.
Okay. 9 and 11. That sounds really good.
This worthless med store owner led me to believe that basically the epap number should usually be half of the ipap number. It's obvious that he knows extremely little about how these machines he's selling, work, despite the fact that he's a patient himself. Who knows, I wouldn't put it past him to have come up with that rule just so I would buy the machine that is a "real investment' but It might be what you need." Without so much as looking at a single report. So we're on the same page now. I've had a lot to relearn. Seems like we're pretty close at 2.40. What's next, just stay at 9/15 until I can get a few good long sleeping nights behind me? That's what I'll plan to do if I don't hear from you tonight. I'll likely start sleeping about 1 to 1:30 and hopefully I won't get any interruptions like I did this morning (one stuffy nostril and an 11am phone call.
Also, My IPAP AND EPAP numbers have become so close together, they are almost cpap numbers, so my guess is 9.5 will either not effect any change or will not be good and 8.5 is more of a IPAP EPAP gap so that would be better. Neither of these guesses are rooted in science. LOL
Great explanation. I had already read your article, but something about the way you just explained it helped it click. I'm about to send you my data for sleep last night. Then I'm going to explain what I changed and how that affected my AHI.
