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by deadEternally
Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:38 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Why does it say major mask leakage for 95% leak rate at 16?
Replies: 5
Views: 4223

Why does it say major mask leakage for 95% leak rate at 16?

Please see attached screenshot. Why does it say on the SleepyHead's welcome screen that I had significant periods of major mask leakage when the 95% leak rate is only 16?
by deadEternally
Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:30 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: AHIs when awake
Replies: 26
Views: 3211

Re: AHIs when awake

I asked something new but it got drowned. My question is if you don't sleep through an apnea event how can you tell whether it was a real sleep apnea event or not, as we have noticed that the machine records events even when awake, so you might have woken up and then a false event got recorded.
by deadEternally
Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:06 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: AHIs when awake
Replies: 26
Views: 3211

Re: AHIs when awake

This presents a complication to one suffering from multiple awakenings to determine their cause. Is a real apnea causing the awakening or an awakening due to some undiagnosed problem falsely recorded by the machine as an apnea?
by deadEternally
Mon Feb 27, 2017 7:54 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Increased heart rate when using CPAP
Replies: 14
Views: 14393

Re: Increased heart rate when using CPAP

I changed my C-flex to 'off' and found I did much better without it. The C-flex algorithm has a tendency to make my breathing race. I would wake up in the middle of the night breathing like I was in a marathon because my body automatically tried to match the pattern of the c-flex. Unfortunately, th...
by deadEternally
Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:47 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Increased heart rate when using CPAP
Replies: 14
Views: 14393

Re: Increased heart rate when using CPAP

I changed my C-flex to 'off' and found I did much better without it. The C-flex algorithm has a tendency to make my breathing race. I would wake up in the middle of the night breathing like I was in a marathon because my body automatically tried to match the pattern of the c-flex. Unfortunately, th...
by deadEternally
Sat Feb 04, 2017 11:48 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow
Replies: 14
Views: 2155

Re: AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow

Yesterday I raised the min pressure to 12 and the AHI went upward with it to 10.7. This always happens with me. You went from 9 to 12 minimum? That's a pretty big jump. If the increase in the AHI was in the Clear Airway category, I would talk to your doctor. Especially since they did not use CPAP i...
by deadEternally
Sat Feb 04, 2017 12:59 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow
Replies: 14
Views: 2155

Re: AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow

Yesterday I raised the min pressure to 12 and the AHI went upward with it to 10.7. This always happens with me.
by deadEternally
Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:35 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow
Replies: 14
Views: 2155

Re: AHI consistently high after staring using nasal pillow

Unfortunately it is a bit difficult to ascertain asleep breathing from awake/semi awake breathing on the data that the machines gather. Some people are good at zooming in on the breath by breath air flow and can get it figured out for the most part. It would require your learning about what each br...
by deadEternally
Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:05 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow
Replies: 14
Views: 2155

Re: AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow

Try to embed the image instead of using a link...my internet doesn't do those links very well. See above thread for what I mean about embedding. About your AHI...it looks like roughly 1/2 of it is Clear Airway....are you spending much time awake during the night with the mask/machine on? Do you tak...
by deadEternally
Fri Feb 03, 2017 11:19 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow
Replies: 14
Views: 2155

Re: AHI consistently high after staring using nasal pillow

What make and model of machine are you using? Do you have a screen shot of when you were using the FF mask? On your sleep study what was the AHI categories that made up your 11 total? Philips Respironics REM star auto A-flex. I don't have the screenshot for when I was using the FF/nasal mask becaus...
by deadEternally
Fri Feb 03, 2017 10:48 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow
Replies: 14
Views: 2155

AHI consistently high after starting to use nasal pillow

My sleep study had shown a mild AHI of 11.0. I started with full face mask and the AHI shown was 1 to 3 generally. I switched to nasal pillow because there would be unfixable leak of air hitting the eye in the middle of the night every night. Ever since I started using the nasal pillow I could not s...
by deadEternally
Tue Jan 10, 2017 11:34 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Woke up with CPAP breathing deep, heavy & fatigued.
Replies: 6
Views: 1423

Re: Woke up with CPAP breathing deep, heavy & fatigued.

I have yet to install the graph software and see my graphs. I think I found the reason for the hyperventilation. I'm normally a back sleeper but after reading stuff on the internet I have recently been trying to sleep on my side. Somehow this is not ok for my body. Today I noticed that during the si...
by deadEternally
Mon Jan 09, 2017 6:21 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Woke up with CPAP breathing deep, heavy & fatigued.
Replies: 6
Views: 1423

Re: Woke up with CPAP breathing deep, heavy & fatigued.

Hi, please don't listen to Buteyko anything... their reasoning and ideas about breathing are just wrong and will not help you. We would like to help, however, but need information - what machine (full name and model please) are you using? At what pressure settings? And which mask? Are you using sof...
by deadEternally
Sun Jan 08, 2017 11:17 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Woke up with CPAP breathing deep, heavy & fatigued.
Replies: 6
Views: 1423

Woke up with CPAP breathing deep, heavy & fatigued.

Had multiple awakenings and tired upon awakening as usual (been going on since before starting using CPAP), and what I noticed today extra is that I was breathing really heavy and deep, quite unlike my normal breathing during waking hours which is shallow and unnoticeable. I believe this is hyperven...