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- Sat May 11, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Precise Meaning of MIN and MED
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6889
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Night One on BiPAP
- Replies: 3
- Views: 885
Re: Night One on BiPAP
Your nice low AHI may not mean all that much if the machine is missing sensing & recording apnea events due to the excessive leaks compromising the machine's sensors. Is the AHI nice and low because nothing happened or because the machine was clueless during the large leak times???? It's one night t...
- Fri May 10, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Centrals?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2742
Re: Centrals?
See the snippet below....A big mess of centrals and can't blame it on SWJ either. Asleep for sure when all that crap happened. I am still trying to sort all that crap out. Never had that happen before. Pugsy, isn't that perfectly formed waxing & waning sinusoidal breathing called Periodic Breathing...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: standard or soft response
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17904
Re: standard or soft response
I gotta a bunch of stuff on my plate today. So no time to go into much detail at all. Sorry. Stuff related to my late mother's estate that got dumped on my plate to handle. I have explained how to tell the difference multiple times in the past. Here's a thread that I happen to have handy. https://ww...
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Centrals?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2742
Re: Centrals?
Hold your breath for 15 seconds....that's essentially a 15 second central apnea...the airway is open but no air is moving but that's because you aren't even trying to breathe. But I wasn't holding my breath... believe me, I know how to breathe normally when laying in bed awake on CPAP. I induced CA...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Centrals?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2742
Re: Centrals?
For it to be a central apnea that really matters you have to be asleep when it happens. Hold your breath for 15 seconds....that's essentially a 15 second central apnea...the airway is open but no air is moving but that's because you aren't even trying to breathe. You are pausing your breathing while...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: standard or soft response
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17904
Re: standard or soft response
I would go back to when you weren't screwing around with the settings. Back to what seemed to be working well for you and you were feeling good. I do NOT believe your centrals are EPR related (the bulk or over 80% of them are arousal/awake breathing related) but you can certainly try discontinuing i...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: standard or soft response
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17904
Re: standard or soft response
I don't have time to look at all those SleepHQ reports but I did scroll through the May 4 report. Probably at least 85% of the flagged events you weren't asleep when they got flagged. You may not remember the arousal but it happened and your breathing reflects it. Lots of arousal/awake breathing sho...
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Centrals?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2742
Re: Centrals?
The middle of the night snippet.....that's a weird grouping but if you look at what happened before the first flagged central you can obviously see the big gulp of air prior to the first flag and we know that we don't take big gulps of air like that when we are asleep so the first one flagged is fai...
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Centrals?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2742
Re: Centrals?
Looks like you weren't asleep to my eye.
Maybe just pausing your breathing while awake????? We do it all the time and not realize we are doing it.
If that were my report I would ignore them and chalk it up to SWJ Sleep/Wake/Junk false positives.
Maybe just pausing your breathing while awake????? We do it all the time and not realize we are doing it.
If that were my report I would ignore them and chalk it up to SWJ Sleep/Wake/Junk false positives.
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: standard or soft response
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17904
Re: standard or soft response
So, if the machine thinks it's a central, does it ignore the event? These machines can't treat or deal with central apneas unless you have one of the special machines like the ASV. Your machine can't do anything with central apneas so it won't even try. More pressure won't/can't force you to breath...
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: New F & P Nasal cushion mask called the Solo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5172
Re: New F & P Nasal cushion mask called the Solo
No swivel at the mask end but to be honest I didn't miss it or even notice there wasn't a swivel until you asked. The short hose on the mask is extremely flexible though. Got some weird results using the Solo last night. Unsure what to make of it right now. Will share later once I can maybe get some...
- Thu May 09, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: What medical documents are required to reprocess case for compliance failed patient
- Replies: 2
- Views: 940
Re: What medical documents are required to reprocess case for compliance failed patient
You need to be asking that question of your insurance carrier.
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: 3-Year CPAP User Looking for Advice
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3526
Re: 3-Year CPAP User Looking for Advice
Wonder if you are experiencing hypnic jerks causing you to wake up. I have those sometimes. Highly annoying.
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:21 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: 3-Year CPAP User Looking for Advice
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3526
Re: 3-Year CPAP User Looking for Advice
Hope you'll be OK, Pugsy. Tell us when you can We got lucky. Didn't get a head on hit by the storms that formed. We were just north of the worst of it. Lots of lightening and thunder and rain and a little wind but as storms go....not bad where I live. Some places got lots of golf ball size hail and...