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Re: Optimum pressure caveats, indeed!!

Posted by - Sleepy Coote on February 14, 2003 at 09:31:54:

In Reply to: Re: Optimum pressure caveats, indeed!! posted by Rebecca on February 13, 2003 at 09:51:03:

Sorry, Rebecca---I forgot to answer your following question: "Do you know if you have any upper airway resistance arousals that are not apneas or hypopneas?"

I really do not know if I have UARS, but I have, indeed, wondered about this very many times. I was not diagnosed with UARS in the lab, yet I used to (pre CPAP) frequently suffer from colds, allergies, sinusitus, deviated septum----you name it. My CPAP's heated humidity and ultra-fine filtration seemed to nicely take care of many of my sinus and nasal passage problems. No esophagael manometry was used in my sleep study and no mention of RAI was made in my sleep study summary. If I do have UARS, my auto-PAP sure does therapeutically counter it much better than my CPAP at a fixed 10 cm pressure!

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