When I was prescribed BiPAP my A:H index was 46 and I was desaturating down to 72% with arrhythmias.. When I went to get help from a home supplier they told me no machines were available and it would be six months at least before I could get one. Several suppliers were rude an in the end they left me twisting in the breeze. I bought an air curve 10 off the internet but could not get in the menu to set the pressures. This video showed me how and probably saved my life.

I’ve been on BiPAP since January 2006 and I believe it saved my life. I’ve been adjusting my pressure up and down to keep my AHI as low as possible for years, with a Respironics Dreamstation, and a System One before that. So I’m new to ResMed Vcurve Auto 10. Thanks for the info, I find it unusual that my IPAP and EPAP are so close together based on what I’ve seen here, and what my friends have for pressures. Mine are 10 and 12. That’s what I’ve been prescribed. I’ve adjusted those over time. I’ve lost 70 pounds since April 2023 and 100 total since Sept 2021, so I really need to change my pressure. I think it’s too high for a much skinnier me.

Your a true hero, you just saved hundreds of dollars in bs doc visits 2 times per month @ $300 a pop!! Keep up the good info, God bless!! Thank you!!!

I own this machine and it is fantastic. Without this machine, I would have given up on cpap therapy.

Thank you soo much. I had given up on my machine because I was having trouble breathing . After watching this video I was able to adjust the settings to my liking and not what the doctor recommended which obstructed my breathing. Now I can breathe and get a good nights rest. I appreciate what you do. Thanks again

thank you for doing the lord's work out here and decoding these machines 🙏🙏

I started my bipap therapy a couple years ago. I have used it on and off. I started pulling my mask off during the night so I quit using it all together. Cardiac Dr said it will worsen my afib if I don’t use it, so I went back to the lung Dr. That was a year ago. He said he would call and have my settings changed. After 6 phone calls to the Dr’s office and several to Lincare it’s still not adjusted. It will be another month or more to get back into the Drs office to get the settings changed. I am going to use this video to try to set it myself. Thank you for the help.

I use an AirCurve10 Vauto. I didn't realize how complex it is. My doctor is pleased with my results thus far so I don't touch the settings except adjusting the time during the time change in Spring and Fall.

Best video on the Internet about Bipap machine settings. Thank you!

Thank you. I've lost a 100lbs since my sleep study and trying to get pressure reductions have been three ring circuses. 👍

YEAH IT's my machine! Let's do this, Jason! *listens intently*

This video is SO GOOD, I watched the ad.

I've been struggling. Needing to up my pressure for a year now and I just found this video. Thank you so much.

Wow i have watched this video 5+ times. I sorta or kinda understand but I’m not going to mess with the settings except for auto start and ramp. Thanks so much 😊

Thanks for the video! I had to replace my Aircurve 10 S due to the motor whirring and the DME replaced it and gave me a Vauto, so you gave me a quick lesson on how to set it with auto. If it doesn't work out I'll set it to "S" mode and use it as a standard bilevel machine. Thanks again!

Great video, i learned a lot. One thing I'd be interested in is to see an example script and to understand exactly what variables the doctor will prescribe and what variables are expected to be set by the patient

Thank you, Got my Aircurve sent wide open and had two of the most sleepless nights. Watched your video dialing in my IPAP 17cm/EPAP 12cm with PS and walla! Semper Fi OORAH

I'm so glad I found your channel and these great videos (even with the corny jokes! ;-)) I've fought with sleep apnea for over 15 years, through several incompetent DMEs and doctors, and, of course, the recall. When I received my AirCurve 10 six weeks ago I was so hopeful that it might finally solve my issues. Instead, I had horrible numbers with dozens of rapidly repeating CA hits. My current DME and doctor were unable, or unwilling to read the charts. So with your help I figured them out and with this video have been learning to adjust the parameters to finally get real sleep the past few nights. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm checking your other webpage to look into having a consultation in the near future.

Recovering from Turbinate reduction surgery. My original pressure setting is too much. Thank you for the instructional video on pressure settings.

My RT refused to tell me how to get into the machine extra settings. I figured it out anyway. I just had another sleep study because I was having over 40 episodes an hour using my new ResMed Air Curve 10 VAuto machine. I used the smartphone app to tell me the data. I have central sleep apnea so they did another sleep study to figure out my settings. Thanks for all the information about the pressure support etc. That is very useful. I was wondering what the difference in V auto was from the S therapy settings and CPAP.

Congrats: You have boggled my mind.

New to the Bpap world. Great video. I had two sleep studies. Then a machine was sent to me. I'm having the same issue at home as I did during my sleep studies. Everything feels great until my pressures ramp up so high it compromises my face mask. This wakes me up. I complained about this during the study but the machine I received does the same thing. I can't tighten my mask any more because it's uncomfortable.

Why won't techs tell us this stuff? Thank you Lanky Lefty!

Ty, my wife has been struggling but the doc says the numbers look good so she dosnt want to change it with 10 ahi an hour where the standard is 5 and under i will give her a week them use this video to do it on our own while we look for new doctor that will take numbers and what the person is feeling

Thank you, Jason. I'll have to get my machine and watch this again.

Thank you for making this video I have yet to find my rhythm with CPAP after being diagnosed over a year ago and my doctor is kind of flaky. I find myself consciously breathing a lot even when awake and when I stop thinking about my breathing and my breath softens there’s a hell of a lot of resistance on the Exhale most in my nasal area So I’m trying to find the right pressure on the exhale I don’t think the inhale this is much of a problem thanks

Relative humidity is the % of moisture in the air compared to the total amount of moisture it can hold before the air cannot hold moisture before it "rains" for simplistic terms. Colder air holds less moisture than warm air.

A great down to earth presentation

Thank you for making information accessible

Love watching your videos Jason, even when they don't apply to my cpap therapy. Would you please do a review on cpap pillows, not the ones that go into your snout, but the ones you rest your head on? I have neck problems, I sleep on my side after years of sleeping on my belly...finding a proper pillow for my helmet head has been an ongoing quest. Thanks again!

Thank you I was doing fine then i started getting more episodes and my AHI i think thats what it's called is about 6 and i been trying to get it down. I have a better understanding of my machine now.

Question, but first Thank you for doing this you might have just saved my life. I will try and be as brief as possible. I have this bipap but my sleep therapy session was with the Phillips dream and we just determined my iPap and epap which was 17 over 11. And it worked great for me my lungs are bad born with asthma and COPD in 2000. I am over 300 pounds. I was on two different recalled Phillips units for over two years both had factory recalls when given to me. Now my lungs are less then 38% i had to get this respironics talking medicaid into paying for a third one as Phillips never replaced the recalled ones. Its hard for me to leave the house so my wife picked this model up and they just gave me the same pre set numbers. But my condition had worsened since I first went on a bipap over two years ago. So my problem I'm having is , one I feel like I am not getting enough pressure and two that my breath when breathing in it isn't picking up and shoving the air in fast enough and it's not keeping it going in long enough. The meter I watch climbs and maxes out and I am still breathing in. So I changed my iPap after starting at 19 came down to 18 that felt right but kept my epap at 11. But I am having the same problem. Should I go back to original numbers 17 over 11 and raise my trigger time to high ? Please help me as I am terrified of falling asleep as I am waking up with bipap after ten mins having 7 times stopped breathing. I'm exhausted and don't trust anyone in this industry right now after Phillips and the medical supply company giving me a federally recalled unit two different times a year after recall and let me use them for two years. Thank you sorry it's long I'm tired.

Great information for AirCurve 10 VAuto Thanks

I have EPAP set to 4.0 and IPAP to 12.0 - Is that too big of a variance. It seems to work. I can average 4 - 5 hours on the machine with really good nasal pillow seal and less than 4 apnea events/hr. I was diagnosed with 50 events/hr

Min is 6-8 cms of water in order to overcome the upper airway resistance. I would suggest Epap of 5 for Ipap of 11 as a starting point and take it from there if your using an Vauto

One important difference between s-mode and vauto is that s-mode doesn’t records flow limitation if you are using Oscar to inspect your data.

This is very helpful. We cant get a sleep test till July and my husband cardiologist said his sleep apnea is life threatening. We got the air curve on our own, but know nothing. Your video has helped with my husbands sleep. We would like to do a zoom even if there is a fee. How do we do that?

I have both obstructive and central apnea. I was recently switched to this machine because the cpap didnt take care of the central. I tend to take long slow breaths when I sleep and the machine increases the pressure before i'm done exhaling. Is there a way to control this.

Thanks for this video and the info about the special sauce of bi-level!

I didn’t change any of the CPAP machine settings you talked about in this video (because I don’t have one) BUT all I know is I now comment from my channel like you told me to do. You say it...I do it!!!

I think you have the rise time backwards, 900ms is a much slower rise from EPAP to set IPAP, than 300, 200, min, etc,. Rise time at min is essentially a whack in the face.

Finally Bilevel gets some love yay! But the DSX900 BiPAP AutoSV is the best BiPAP :P

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Thanks you saved me just got done sleeping thanks for tge video

Could you do a review of the setting on the Air curve10 ST machine like you did on this machine?

Thank you

I have the Air Sense 10. I'm like, oooh new models 😋 How does it differ from the one I have. When I first started therapy about 10 years ago I had so much anxiety. I would start breathing faster and faster and the machine would match my pace and it was an escalating spiral upwards, truly a nightmare scenario. If I dump out my data, could i Skype/zoom you to go over it.

Going in for my second sleep study in 3 weeks. They will be doing a bpap study starting me out at 14 cmH2O. My baseline during the split study was 71 AHI at the end of the therapy phase it was lower but I had Central apneas that were not present during the baseline phase. Wish me luck that they will dial me in tonight. Thanks for your vids but they need more of those sweet bass intros.

Great information - Much needed - Thank You.

Just got my new Resmed Curve. From first night my apneas increased. My old apap was set at 10.9 this bipap is at 9 Dont think its high enough, waking up with headaches and nsusea.

I'm new with this BIPAP. I have settings IPAP 19 and EPAP 15. My events in the past month have only been above 2, 2 times. Most are 1 or less. Can I just reduce the 19/15 down? Like 18/14 etc. until events are between 3 and 4 per hour? Wouldn't reducing these two settings be better for my comfort?

Would love this same video on the Air Curve 10 ST-A.

Thank you so much for the very needed information! Good work!

If I'm understanding this correctly, my prescribed EPAP of 15 is what is controlling my obstructive apneas? My IPAP of 19 is what is handling my centrals and hypopneas? I'm on bilevel because I couldn't tolerate CPAP during my sleep study 5 years ago. I struggled exhaling against the pressure and didn't fully fall asleep until the tech switched me to bilevel. I recently lowered my pressures by 1 and I've noticed my high leak rate has drastically reduced, my centrals have reduced, my osa hasn't worsened, and I've never had many hypopneas. I'm thinking about reducing my pressure relief to see if I can get it to where, in the future, I can get a CPAP machine instead of a bilevel, but I thought the IPAP would be what handles my osa, not my EPAP, that's very interesting. I'm excited to try reducing my IPAP, it would be AMAZING to have my pressure be 14!

Excellent video!

Great job Jason, I have an apap and my pressure is usually 9-11 cm with an EPR of 3. What would be the equivalent setting on the bipap vauto and s setting?

Hey, thanks for the great video! It is really helpful. I'm confused about rise time settings. Skipping to 5:30 You said that a rise time of 900 ms is really fast compared to a rise time of 150 ms. I must have things turned around somehow, because 900 ms is longer than 150 ms. Wouldn't that mean that a rise time of 900 ms is slower than a rise time of 150 ms? I'm on BiPAP now but started on CPAP more than a dozen years ago. It didn't take me very long to stop using the ramp. I totally agree with your observations on that.

Please tell me what battery I should buy for my ResMed Air curve 10

thank you for making this bipap experiment possible and even almost exciting again lol. clarifying Q- at 16:36 you mention that you like to have a static pressure, or a slight range (but not a large range). i'm guessing you're still referring specifically in the 'VAuto' setting (because you can't set a 'PS' in the 'S' mode)? ie does that still apply in 'S' mode? are you saying you like to keep the IPAP and EPAP somewhat close together in 'S' mode? in which case the suggested setting of 'IPAP' 25/ 'EPAP' 4 seems very high. or does the range of pressure automatically have open possibilities in 'S' mode so long as it's within the 'IPAP' and 'EPAP'? at the moment i'm trying 'S' mode and leaving it at that suggested setting since i don't know what is best for me yet. i hope i'm making sense. cheers!

Thank you for the video. My mother has this machine and it doesn’t stay on all night and she is currently not getting enough sleep. Is there a way of checking that?

Thanks this made so much sense.

Hi, can you make a similar video with the AirCurve ASV please? dont fully understand the difference beatween Bilevel auto and ASV. I´ve been recomended with one of those to improve the UARS. Thanks

Thanks for the "mini" class, a little more clarification on adjustments related to difficulties would be awesome. Example: my Aircurve 10 current settings are causing my exhalation effort to be too high. Would I just tweak the "EPAP" to find a better pressure? Thanks!

Thanks for the explaining; one question is the Pressue Support(PS) level the same as chosen even during Ramp time? If so, if PS is 5 and starting during ramp(assuming starting EPAP=4), IPAP= 9, is high IPAP a concern if you want to maximize the comfort and tolerability of using the machine.

Wow thanks dude! You helped me a lot with this one.

Jason. Could you please go over once again the pressure support issue. Are you saying we should just use the s mode as v mode is so flawed and there is the issue of encouraging central apneas. Hellllp.

Do have a video on the Aircurve 10 ASV ? Mine has different settings than this Vauto, I get all your settings for the Vauto, nicely explained, I wish I had those same options. Any suggestions?

My DME told me that the Leak Alert (audible) is not on the VAUTO.. only the S/ST. Is this true? I see your menu shows it.

i think, @5:38 there is a mistake ! Higher Rise Time of 900ms means its a slower breath, NOT fast ! Similarly, Rise Time of 150ms very quickly changes from Epap to Ipap suggesting that it is a fast breath

Thank you for your video Jason. I have recently bought a Resmed Aircurve st model. How is it different from vauto.Also I tried connecting it to wifi or phone network but couldn't.Can you help me out?

Have a question, have you seen improvement in patients for REM sleep disorders using cpap therapy with combination of the apnea, hypopneas and severe fragmentation sleep disorder symptoms ??? ~Michelle

Why is my sleep report no longer showing how many incidence I am having? Did I push a wrong button

Recently I switched to BiPAP, and found lots of the CA (clear airway) events (28). I don’t know the number when I was using CPAP, but the overall AHI increased from around 3 to around 5. My current setup is 4-13 with PS 3, I wonder if that 3 causes more central sleep apnea events. Is it worth adjusting the number a little higher? Or should I get back to CPAP?

Does SmartStart also supposed to automatically turn off the machine when the mask is removed? My AirSense 10 has this feature and it works for both auto-on and auto-off, but my auto-off doesn’t seem to work with my AirCurve 10 Vauto.

excellent video I do have a pulmonologist that I can't get to send in a prescription change and this video at least helps me figure out how to experiment. I set up the bipap with pressure support of 5 with min and max 6 & 12. My air app gave me 3.2 events not sure what i should do next. Should I increase pressure support to 6 and keep the min max the same or also increase the max to lets say 14 any help would be great thanks

Well I find I breathe slow long breaths while sleeping and the machine on vauto cuts my breath off, I am still inhaling and it stops. This wakes me up every single breath doing this. It seems rather stupid to me that is vauto and would cut your breath off?? how do I get it to stop because if I can't I will never be able to use it.

I have the ability to buy this machine very very cheap I started cpap about 2 months ago and I just hate the relief from my 10 auto set …. Is this a good solution to make cpap more comfortable

I am a shallow breather. So, I take shallow breaths for about a minute and then I take one deep breath. My AirCurve10 VAuto can't keep up with my deep breath and I have to remove my mask. How do I set up my machine to accommodate shallow breathing?

Hi Jason...my doctor just increased my pressure but now it's forcing air in when I need about another second of exhale. Which setting do I need to adjust? Thanks!

I agree ramp time is stupid, and I am a very new user. Gimme air, and gimme right now, lol.

So how do you no what’s a good ps setting

I'm doing pretty well on my ResMed AirCurve 10 with supplemental oxygen. I have noticed that most of my apneas are central. I'll try experimenting with my PS settings and see if that helps. My doctor thinks its cool that I'm educating myself and have made significant improvement changing some settings.

I use this machine. I still wake up because I have severe dry mouth and/or indigestion and feel bloaty. How can I adjust the settings to prevent this?

I used to run a CPAP at a fixed pressure of 20.( sleep study said 21 was clinically my optimum pressure) Then I got this auto BiPAP. Just the other day I found out the highest pressure the machine was giving me at night is 10. I might as well not be using anything at all. I am scheduled to see a sleep next month and will hopefully get it straightened out but in the meantime I would like to update pressure significantly

I do have a question...Maybe a couple. First, I'd like to thank you for making this video! I've been having some issues with my machine. I have this exact machine. I've been gaining weight since I've got this machine. I spoke with my doctor and she had said something about lowering a pressure to 17, but haven't heard back. My Max IPAP is 21 and my Min EPAP is 13. I've been doing some tinkering on my end and I'd like to know some tips you may have for me.

Thank you SO MUCH!!

Is S mode the same as fixed bipap essentially?

I still dont get it. Ugh

My dr said there is an adjustment for altitude but I forgot. Can you please help with this adjustment?

Do you guys have a video explaining all the Sleep Report (Plus) stats? Thanks.

Thank you so much for doing this video. You explained a lot. One question, are bleep dreamports considered pillows or nasal mask?

On my comfort settings, the ramp time and the start EPAP are not enabled their a dull color. I am unable to adjust them. Does anybody have any ideas?

You’re amazing - thank you so much.

Hello I wake up with a very dry throat what can I do for that Thank You.

Just got the 10vauto…good video on it…testing out the s mode and the autov mode..I have a bipap obviously..is one mode better then the other ?

When using the humidifier how do you keep it in chill mode. My aircurve will always go back to heated . When i first started using the machine there was an option to switich between chill / heat. I dont use heated tube.

What is easy breath?

easy sleep setting is in clinical, stops the thumping when breathing

I have changed the settings on the moisture also and try using it without any..maybe lower the temperature on the tube??if I turn it up it drowns me with condensation

Hey, Can you please explain apnoea alarm on an Aircurve 10. Thanks in advance