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Re: If one is in this situation . . .

Posted by ChuckS on April 24, 2001 at 10:11:48:

In Reply to: Re: If one is in this situation . . . posted by John Len on April 22, 2001 at 23:42:09:

You should make sure you can hear your normal breathing, so you'll know if you stop. This will probably means listening to the changing of the airflow from the CPAP and figuring out how you're breathing from that.

I once bought a microphone from Radio Shack with a suction cup intended to stick onto a telephone. I think it would work well to stick one of these onto your mask.

You could start the pressure low, listen to the recording the next day, and, if you hear yourself stop breathing, increase the pressure 1 cmH2O the next night. Maybe also if you're just snoring. If you don't hear yourself sop breathing or snoring, keep the pressure the same and maybe listen a few more nights to see if you still have preblems some nights. I think you should turn it up to stop snoring, but I don't know. You have to be careful to not get it too high, or you may get central apneas. The technique I described I think should help prevent that, although if you already have centrals you may keep turning up the pressure without stopping the original problem, and maybe adding another. I twould be very good to have a friend watch you to see if your breathing stoppages are due to trying to breath and can't because of a blocked airway, or if you aren't even trying to breathe.

I obviously don't have all the answers, so you should discuss this with a doctor if you can.

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