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by Gidgemo
Wed May 08, 2024 9:29 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Unclassified Apneas
Replies: 13
Views: 2985

Re: Unclassified Apneas

I'm curious, Pugsy, how can you tell he's not asleep? By the shape of the breaths in the flow rate graph. Asleep breathing is very smooth, rhythmic and doesn't vary. Awake/arousal breathing is very irregular when compared to asleep breathing. Easy to spot most of the time. We don't take big gulps o...
by Gidgemo
Wed May 08, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: leaks! mask liners?
Replies: 8
Views: 2411

Re: leaks! mask liners?

I just went thru a large leak issue with Vitera when I started using it a week or so ago. Large leak time 60-75% of the night. Bipap at 15/19. Completely solved by letting the top strap out as far as it can go and hunkering the bottom strap down ice and tight. Last night I experimented with my origi...
by Gidgemo
Wed May 08, 2024 2:15 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Unclassified Apneas
Replies: 13
Views: 2985

Re: Unclassified Apneas

Rubicon wrote:
Tue May 07, 2024 1:55 pm
Gidgemo wrote:
Tue May 07, 2024 1:37 pm
Rubicon wrote:
Tue May 07, 2024 2:57 am
Gidgemo wrote:
Sat May 04, 2024 3:17 pm
Any idea what these really are?
Sure do!

But first you have to answer me this:

How many fingers am I holding up?
Not sure, but I am holding up one..
Why don't you just say "go fuck yourself"?
That would be about as useful as asking me to guess how many fingers you are holding up..
by Gidgemo
Tue May 07, 2024 1:37 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Unclassified Apneas
Replies: 13
Views: 2985

Re: Unclassified Apneas

Rubicon wrote:
Tue May 07, 2024 2:57 am
Gidgemo wrote:
Sat May 04, 2024 3:17 pm
Any idea what these really are?
Sure do!

But first you have to answer me this:

How many fingers am I holding up?
Not sure, but I am holding up one..
by Gidgemo
Sun May 05, 2024 1:57 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Unclassified Apneas
Replies: 13
Views: 2985

Re: Unclassified Apneas

Thanks for the reply. Yes to large leak. Because of the fit, it had large leak 69.57% of the session. But i am pretty sure I was asleep. At same instance, I had an oxygen desaturation to 88%. I could be wrong.
by Gidgemo
Sat May 04, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Unclassified Apneas
Replies: 13
Views: 2985

Unclassified Apneas

Using an Aircurve 10 in Vauto mode, currently set min-15.4/Max 25.0 with PS of 4. First night set at this pressure. Mask is F&P Vitera. Because I am going thru a Bell's Palsy episode, I am wearing moisturing goggles and wearing a chin strap with the mask over it. Those are things I'd never normally ...