Sleep Apnea Support/Questions Thread

BigCat · 02-09-2011, 04:06 AM

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Originally Posted by icehog3

Right...doesn't 20 sound off the chart?

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Originally Posted by pnoon

Yep.
I can't imagine that setting.
Hell, even your setting of 14 seems awfully high.

My AHI was in the seventies when I had my test and I was prescribed a setting of 9. My machine monitors my results, or did until I knocked it off the nightstand one night after getting home from a bachelor party, and I adjusted it myself to a 10 to get my AHI down to the .5 range. 20 seems nuts.

pnoon · 02-09-2011, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by BigCat

My AHI was in the seventies when I had my test and I was prescribed a setting of 9. My machine monitors my results, or did until I knocked it off the nightstand one night after getting home from a bachelor party, and I adjusted it myself to a 10 to get my AHI down to the .5 range. 20 seems nuts.

Interesting that you can adjust the airflow setting. On mine, the DME provider has to do that on orders from my doctor.

BigCat · 02-09-2011, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by pnoon

Interesting that you can adjust the airflow setting. On mine, the DME provider has to do that on orders from my doctor.

My dme left the instructions for adjusting the machine settings when he set me up. I don't know if he was supposed to, but I figured the fine tuning couldn't hurt.
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Don Fernando · 02-09-2011, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by pnoon

Interesting that you can adjust the airflow setting. On mine, the DME provider has to do that on orders from my doctor.

I can change the settings myself

FriendlyMan · 02-09-2011, 10:09 AM

I'm sorry if I didn't make my self clear before. The one I have now is Bipap but it dose not help me. So I went to for another sleep study at a different center after, over a year of trying.

The new center suggested I change to cpap and the setting should be 13.

So today, The Company got the RX for my cpap machine set at 13, and new mask the Resmed quattro full face mask Large.

Now I have the Comfortfull2 mask Medium and a bipap setting of 16E 20I wow what a change and difference this is. I hope it will make a difference in my nights sleep because I'm falling apart lol.

I should hear from them some time next week. I hope it dosn't take any longer then that.

02-09-2011, 10:09 AM	#5
FriendlyMan Still Watching My Back Join Date: Jul 2009 First Name: JACK Location: NYC Posts: 212 Trading: (7)	Re: Sleep Apnea Support/Questions Thread I'm sorry if I didn't make my self clear before. The one I have now is Bipap but it dose not help me. So I went to for another sleep study at a different center after, over a year of trying. The new center suggested I change to cpap and the setting should be 13. So today, The Company got the RX for my cpap machine set at 13, and new mask the Resmed quattro full face mask Large. Now I have the Comfortfull2 mask Medium and a bipap setting of 16E 20I wow what a change and difference this is. I hope it will make a difference in my nights sleep because I'm falling apart lol. I should hear from them some time next week. I hope it dosn't take any longer then that.