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Anyone have a better experience with a BiPap?

I live in the mountains, a mile high. My cpap level is 11. My average oxygen levels during sleep are around 92-93. Which is pretty good for this elevation. But I do feel a fair amount better when I sleep at sea level.

I just noticed as I was monitoring my oxygen levels my my pulse oximeter, that they jumped from 92 to 96 while I deep breathed with my cpap on. And then I wondered if this is what a BiPap does--causes deeper inhalations and thus more O2 intake.

Has anyone switched over to a Bipap and witnessed that their Oxygen saturations have gone up?

I'm guessing, it must also be a bear to get adjusted to the BiPap.

Thanks, Noah

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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on June 30, 2011 at 10:42am

Perhaps my events were RERAs, I remember I had a lot of alpha intrusions, perhaps due to chronic pain. In all of my sleep tests my O2 sats never went below 90% and were usually higher. In my home two night oximetry study (ordered by the doctor due to my AHI in the teens) I never had a sat below 95%. I do know that after having a procedure in the hospital or outpatient where I receive IV anesthesia the O2 sat alarm would go off- I presume due to respirtory depression because when I would make a conscious effort to breathe deeper the alarm would stop. I don't think I was having apneas, just shallow breathing. Just a guess on my part.

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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on July 1, 2011 at 6:33am

Interesting that you ended up so high on Bpap. One more clue for the MaryZ case. :)

Mary Z said:

Perhaps my events were RERAs, I remember I had a lot of alpha intrusions, perhaps due to chronic pain. In all of my sleep tests my O2 sats never went below 90% and were usually higher. In my home two night oximetry study (ordered by the doctor due to my AHI in the teens) I never had a sat below 95%. I do know that after having a procedure in the hospital or outpatient where I receive IV anesthesia the O2 sat alarm would go off- I presume due to respirtory depression because when I would make a conscious effort to breathe deeper the alarm would stop. I don't think I was having apneas, just shallow breathing. Just a guess on my part.