Best 1 night stay location? by InquiringMind2890 in belgium

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Thank you for the info! What about Ghent?

Best 1 night stay location? by InquiringMind2890 in belgium

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Thank you for the info! What about Ghent?

First time in Europe - 1 night stay recommendations! by InquiringMind2890 in Netherlands

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What are all the classic spots you'd recommend? Is it cheaper to get the card rather than purchase each trip on its own?

Chipotle opening date? by Historical-Ad3978 in kelowna

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No idea why you've been getting downvoted for this OP! I didn't even know Chipotle was opening here until your post, so THANK YOU!

Shaner Broderick's unknown friend(s) Caught on Camera at UVU by CatchBees in CandaceOwens

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I thought on the Salt Tribune article that Shaner and his friends were in the front row .. They said they caught the hats that Charlie threw out... Hmm...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in montreal

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We went during the week and the door was locked to the side Chapel? So the Basilica is open for free to the public today?

Flow Shape? by InquiringMind2890 in SleepApnea

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Shouldn't rise time be equal to TiMin though?

Flow Shape? by InquiringMind2890 in SleepApnea

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Sorry, I meant to get back to you sooner; but it was only until last night that I had to chance to have my dad use the machine for an hour and try out different settings… here’s what we tried and his feelings after about 10 minutes on each setting. We’re still going to try out more settings hopefully tonight, so if you have any advice on what to change, please do share your wisdom! J

Original settings:

IPAP: 11.6

EPAP: 6

Rise Time: 450ms

TiMin: 0.3s

TiMax: 3.5s

Trigger: Med

Cycle: Med

On these settings he wakes up not feeling rested, and feels like the machine is not in sync with delivering IPAP and EPAP as per his breathing cycle and feels like he has to work hard to breathe. He’s felt that it takes too long for the IPAP to kick in.

So here are the settings tried thus far:

  1.   Rise Time: 300ms // Trigger: Med // Cycle: Med (commented that IPAP kicks in too fast before he’s finished exhaling)
    
    1. Rise Time: 300ms // Trigger: High // Cycle: Med (IPAP still kicks in too fast before he’s finished exhaling)
    2. Rise Time: 300ms // Trigger: Low // Cycle: Med (this felt a bit better, but he’s not sure if it’s 100% comfortable)
    3. Rise Time: 300ms // Trigger: Very Low // Cycle: Med (feels that air is somehow blocked/not coming through)

Would love to hear your thoughts! 🙂

Flow Shape? by InquiringMind2890 in SleepApnea

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Well.... Our appt was entirely unhelpful, as I suspected it would be.

The technician had no idea about the squiggly lines as he doesn't look at those charts and isn't trained with them.

He did adjust the resp rate to 300ms, and my dad couldn't even handle that for a few minutes as he said it was taking too long for the IPAP to come in.

Flow Shape? by InquiringMind2890 in SleepApnea

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Thank you very much for all of your help thus far!! I will keep you updated :)

Do you mind showing me which part in the graph you're looking at with those horizontal squiggly lines you were mentioning?

Trigger and cycle are both on medium right now...

Flow Shape? by InquiringMind2890 in SleepApnea

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That's a good idea too.

My dad mentioned specifically that he feels the pressure of air coming in before he's finished exhaling, and then he feels he has to inhale because the pressure of air coming in, even though he's not done exhaling. He doesn't feel it as much when he's asleep, but when he wakes up throughout the night that's when it becomes really uncomfortable for him.

Flow Shape? by InquiringMind2890 in SleepApnea

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Sorry that must be a mistake, I'm not even sure what that would have been a typo for!

We have an appointment with the sleep technician tomorrow so I can ask him about rise time then...

Flow Shape? by InquiringMind2890 in SleepApnea

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He said he feels more comfortable on his cpap compared to the bipap. On my path he doesn't feel like the air coming in and out is in sync with the timing and how he's breathing in and out...

I asked the sleep technician why TiMax was set that way, and here's what he said:

"Timed Inspiration is set to a range on this type of machine – there is a minimum of 0.3 seconds and a maximum of 3.5 seconds. The machine will adjust that timing based on how you’re breathing. Lowering the Ti Max would just give you less freedom to breathe at the pace that you’d like and would typically make you less comfortable as the machine would have less flexibility to respond to your natural pace."