ZZ9ZA t1_jcsaoth wrote on March 19, 2023 at 4:15 AM

Reply to comment by Ian_Campbell in Statins May Decrease Heart Disease in People With Sleep Apnea, according to new study by chrisdh79

I’d find that to be torture, personally. I find that any pressure below around 12 feels like it’s harder to breath than without wearing at all. It isn’t - it just feels that the flow doesn’t instantly adjust, so it kinda feels like you’re breathing through a straw.

(FWIW, on therapy for a bit over 7 years now, using an auto set pressure of 17-20. 20 is the highest my machine goes… actual peak pressure used most nights is around 19-19.2. AHI of <1 most nights, even “bad” nights are 1.5-2ish. I treated I was somewhere in the mid 50s, well into “severe”.

Ian_Campbell t1_jcsdla7 wrote on March 19, 2023 at 4:45 AM

I could try to manually set it and see if I feel better but since I'm fine, I figure there's some medical reason not to do more than necessary and my route is in following up with them. It's just hard to follow up with this stuff without extra money or energy, but at the same time letting 10 years go by half-abled without any help isn't acceptable. It's just hard to have hope when nothing helps, anxiety/depression med route total nope, stims don't help, cpap therapy didn't really help, thyroid replacement didn't really help.

It feels like the deeper you go trying to see specialists the more you are just stranding yourself for nothing.