Need help with CPAP for camper
Fairly new to CPAP. The VA bought mine and it is strictly 110 volt. I thought no problem just get an inverter. Got a Schumacher 410 watt. Runs the CPAP OK but every time I take a breath in, the in...
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Sleep disorder "experts" are not all alike. Some remind me of paint-by-the-numbers robots that work purely by rote and cast intelligence aside. Lower mask pressure for exhalation is critical for some people including me. The idiots that I had to deal with did not understand the capabilities of machines. My first unit was a CPAP and the results were a disaster. The second machine was a Bi-PAP. Me not they had to adjust the settings for optimum performance. One setting in particular senses the presence of breath intake. It is adjustable. I reset it to it's most sensitive setting and whammo my AHI dumped from 15 down to 1. The sleep study doctor threw a fit. I called him a quack in front of a dozen waiting patients and walked out. CSA? A person could say so. When hospitalized and drifting off to sleep came yelling "BREATHE! BREATHE! From the nurse's station. My sleep study doctor was a graduate of the university of Islamabad.
THANK YOU for the head's up on the limitations on the upscale unit.
Sleep disorder "experts" are not all alike. Some remind me of paint-by-the-numbers robots that work purely by rote and cast intelligence aside. Lower mask pressure for exhalation is critical for some people including me. The idiots that I had to deal with did not understand the capabilities of machines. My first unit was a CPAP and the results were a disaster. The second machine was a Bi-PAP. Me not they had to adjust the settings for optimum performance. One setting in particular senses the presence of breath intake. It is adjustable. I reset it to it's most sensitive setting and whammo my AHI dumped from 15 down to 1. The sleep study doctor threw a fit. I called him a quack in front of a dozen waiting patients and walked out. CSA? A person could say so. When hospitalized and drifting off to sleep came yelling "BREATHE! BREATHE! From the nurse's station. My sleep study doctor was a graduate of the university of Islamabad.
THANK YOU for the head's up on the limitations on the upscale unit.
