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I started on cpap in April. I was having 45 apneas each hour. Since then I have had an apap and now I am on a bipap auto and quatro fx mask. The mask is great, fits well. However I am still having 25 apneas a night. My ramp starts at 10 and upper is 20. How can I get rid of these apneas. All help will be greatfully recieved.
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Permalink Reply by Noah Calderon on
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What helped me alot was when I started using a foam soft cervical collar at night along with my cpap. It lifts my chin up and helps open my airway. In the past few months I have switched over to a "ER C Collar." I work in an ER and pick up clean used c-collars that are placed on trauma patients. It is made out of plastic and foam. I cut the back off and and tie an elastic string to the back ends to help hold it around my neck.
I don't know if this will help you, but it certainly has helped me quite a bit. Noah.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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That is a lot of apneas! Is that your AHI, or AI? I personally cannot get my AHI down into the normal range because of drugs I take for depression and pain. I don't know what your medicine list looks like. If you haven't had your doc go over these results with you I suggest you make an appointment. Anything else I say would be a total guess.
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Permalink Reply by Kath Hope www.hope2Sleep.co.uk on
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I was thinking that Mary, but I've just re-read Carolyn's actually put 25 per 'night' so I'm thinking that if she's sleeping for an average of 8 hours, then that's around 3 per hour, which is pretty good going.
Mary Z said:
That is a lot of apneas! Is that your AHI, or AI? I personally cannot get my AHI down into the normal range because of drugs I take for depression and pain. I don't know what your medicine list looks like. If you haven't had your doc go over these results with you I suggest you make an appointment. Anything else I say would be a total guess.
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Yes, Kath, I was thinking 25/hour, not over the whole night. Good catch.
Thanks.
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Sorry I did mean to put 25 per hour. Sorry for mistake.
Mary Z said:
Yes, Kath, I was thinking 25/hour, not over the whole night. Good catch.
Thanks.
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Ah, well that is high then Carolyn. I hope your sleep clinic knows this as they certainly need to help you on this, and it sounds like your pressures need checking. With you only being on the treatment for a short while I would hesitate in changing your pressures yourself, but maybe this is what's needed.
Carolyn Tipping said:
Sorry I did mean to put 25 per hour. Sorry for mistake.
Mary Z said:
Yes, Kath, I was thinking 25/hour, not over the whole night. Good catch.
Thanks.
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I have told my sleep clinc and they told me to stay as it is until appointment on Sept 16th, my birthday! It has dropped, slightly. to 22. I suppose any drop is a good thing.
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