APAP Presure

[silvercarper]

Since using Sleepyhead to look at my data I have become increasingly aware that its the pressure the machine goes up to during the night which effects how I feel in the morning.
Eg
12.86 cm 95% & AHI 0.43 good
but
14.18 cm 95% & AHI 0.66 rubbish

Has anybody else noticed this.

I think on my old Remstar it gave you the pressures but its not so easy to do on the S9

[Barely Awake]

An AHI less than 1 is a figure most hoseheads would be pleased with. Your 95% pressures are slightly higher than mine & I can see that a slight increase can trouble a lot of people. However, if you are feeling 'rubbish' then perhaps there is a reason you haven't noticed - do you keep a food diary? You could be puzzling over your machine when the night before you feel rubbish next day you might have fancied a glass of something, you may have eaten late or cheese going to bed. It was keeping a food diary that saw me change a few habits, all the better sleepwise as a result. Until you keep a strict diary there is so much you just don't notice.
Hope this helps.

[symmit]

Remember that an auto machine increases in reaction to an event that needs pressure, or in anticipation of it, so your AHI will be higher on nights you need more support.

What do you have your minimum pressure set at? I have mine at 10 at the moment, and it rarely rises above 12, but if i set it at 8 it climbs higher, more often. I think it does so because the base pressure eliminates most of the events but i do not like having it set too high.

[susiejane]

Hi, my CPAP + is set at 19 I do not like the ramp or use it. I sleep through the night with it, (family nick name for the CPAP is Darth Vada) If for any reason I have taken the mask off I do not sleep well without it, I feel like I am suffocating. I wake with a banging headache and feel quite toxic. I have used a machine now for several years. I hate it, I am embarrassed by it. My clinic leave me alone and call me in for service every year or so. They check the data and know that I use it to sleep through the night. I get sores and things and sometimes a very uncomfortable bloated feeling in the morning which I can soon relieve quite quickly. Washing my mask in the morning with just some washing up liquid (fairy Green is the best it does not perish the silicone etc) has become second nature in the bathroom as brushing my teeth. The nightmares still continue that someone is trying to suffocate me (usually then I have taken the mask off) Its nice to know that there is other people out there who have to use CPAP, it makes me feel a little more human.

[Fredxx]

You are definitely not alone susiejane! and it is nothing to be embarrassed about; I know my partner would rather have my machine and mask every night rather than the snoring and tired grumpy Fred!

[martin]

Cpap is nothing to be embarressed about. Gail (as in gale force) and my travel machine (baby gail) are my best friends. It's not perfect but very close and it's a heck of a lot better than the pre cpap me (as Fred said, loud, grumpy and permanently knackered isn't a good look). I find the facial sores are helped by switching masks around, at the min I'm using sleepweaver and pilairo (?). I'm lucky as I took to cpap with happy quacks so my relationship with my clinic is friendly but minimal (compliance and spare parts).

I belong to the if it works I'm happy and ignore the numbers group but I'm still glad some of you guys are checking them.

Ps My dearly beloved has reminded me that I have less bruising these days as I no longer get punched so I snore in a different direction.

[xCaryx]

Newby

Hey peeps,
I'm on a Philips Resperonics Amara.
Aside from the leakage and pressure sore on my nose, I've woken up some mornings, to find that I've taken off the hose to the mask. I don't remember doing it, so I'm not sure how long I've slept without it! How am I supposed to deal with that?

[susiejane]

Hi, usually if my hose has come off its because I have rolled around in my sleep and for safety it just comes off. All good really as nightmares about being strangled by a snake have since worn off as I realised what it was! xx