I got a CPAP this year and mostly it's been good. I used the r/CPAP reddit to learn about it. pretty much every day someone on there says "I just got my machine and I feel like I can't breathe when I use it", and the replies always say "turn up your starting pressure".
A lot of people get a prescription for a CPAP that says "4-20 cmH2O", but most people actually use 7-10 cmH2O. There are countless stories on there of people trying to explain the issue to their doctor or technician and just being gaslit about how nothing is wrong and they should 'follow the prescription'. Once they learn on reddit how to configure their machine it works great and is much more tolerable.
How many people abandoned treatment because they had too low of a pressure setting when their doctors arbitrarily wrote on the prescription the same thing they write on every prescription? Why do machine manufacturers continue to use default settings that rarely work?
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