To :all to CPAP questions

[Guest guest]

Hi, I just wanted to try and help you all out since I actually work

for a sleep doc..

CPAP machines are often hard to get used to at first so please give it

a few weeks of trial to adjust before giving up. While your awake and

not all the way asleep the machine may seem like alot of air because

you really only need it once you fall asleep.. It is very common that

people new to CPAPs take their masks off in the middle of the night..

Just keep trying and see your doc if things aren't better.. There are

tons and tons of masks out there so go to manufactures websites and

have a peek then ask you doc or homecare co. about them.. 2 very large

manufactures are www.Resmed.com and www.Respironics.com.

About the machines .. there are several kind of machines and you may

have different ones.it depends on what took your apneas away the best

at you sleep study.

APAP- is auto-PAP has a range of pressure such as 5-15 for people who

did not have a great titration night..

CPAP- has a set pressure such as 9cm

BIPAP- has 2 pressures such as 13/8 where yopu inhale at one rate and

exhale at another rate..

there are also CFLEX, BIFLEX, and VPAP etc.

all of these machines have ramp usually 10-20 or 5-15mins which is

just a timed period of adjusting to you set air pressure..

hope this helps.. thats pretty much what I know..

AJa

[Guest guest]

AJA,

Wow what a lot of information - I've printed it up for future

reference. I don't think it's the idea of a mask on my face that is

bothering me, it's the fact that there are times I can't seem to get

enough air, and I feel as if I am being smothered. At the sleep

study he tried only one machine and I was fighting it all night

because I wasn't getting enough air. Every time it would ramp up it

would feel so good and I'd start to fall asleep and then it would cut

way down. This went on all night. When I asked about it in the

morning (5 a.m.) the technician told me that every time he ramped it

up I would wake up so he had to lower it. Hard to believe he thought

I was asleep.

Thanks again for the information.

Margaret B

> Hi, I just wanted to try and help you all out since I actually work

> for a sleep doc..

>

> CPAP machines are often hard to get used to at first so please give it

> a few weeks of trial to adjust before giving up. While your awake and

> not all the way asleep the machine may seem like alot of air because

> you really only need it once you fall asleep.. It is very common that

> people new to CPAPs take their masks off in the middle of the night..

> Just keep trying and see your doc if things aren't better.. There are

> tons and tons of masks out there so go to manufactures websites and

> have a peek then ask you doc or homecare co. about them.. 2 very large

> manufactures are www.Resmed.com and www.Respironics.com.

>

> About the machines .. there are several kind of machines and you may

> have different ones.it depends on what took your apneas away the best

> at you sleep study.

>

> APAP- is auto-PAP has a range of pressure such as 5-15 for people who

> did not have a great titration night..

> CPAP- has a set pressure such as 9cm

> BIPAP- has 2 pressures such as 13/8 where yopu inhale at one rate and

> exhale at another rate..

>

> there are also CFLEX, BIFLEX, and VPAP etc.

>

> all of these machines have ramp usually 10-20 or 5-15mins which is

> just a timed period of adjusting to you set air pressure..

>

> hope this helps.. thats pretty much what I know..

> AJa

>