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Re: Optimum pressure caveats, indeed!!

Posted by - Sleepy Coote on February 12, 2003 at 18:43:18:

In Reply to: Re: Optimum pressure caveats, indeed!! posted by - Sleepy Coote on February 12, 2003 at 18:22:24:

I think your rhetorical question is a good one. Yes, indeed, my lungs feel over-inflated while awake at 10 cm pressure. I don't need 10 cm while awake for lack of obstructive sleep events---hence the over pressure. But if I don't need 10 cm pressure while sleeping, for lack of sleep events, then I would assume my lungs are over inflated then too. Over inflated much more often for someone like me with a low AHI versus someone with a high AHI. Right? And wouldn't it be lung over inflation that is either prolonged or collectively adds up to a significant sum of time that would trigger the hering-breuer reflex?

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