Less Leaks and Higher AHI - what's up with that?

if you'd read more, or perhaps clicked the sleepyhead link in my sig, you'd know ALL about it, and not make statements that get you laughed at, like the one you made above.

ohhh, you're SO right, I did mistype. ""the leaks have no affect on the machines ability to treat your apnea.
ftfy.

*excessive* mask leaks must be addressed, because when they get to be too large, they affect, as I said, the ability of the machine to accurately determine what kinds of apnea you have, (and thus respond properly to it) and if the leaks are truly massive, they'll get beyond the machine's ability to maintain therapy pressure, and thus will increase the number of apnea events you experience. however, that amount of leakage is truly huge, as you can see from the chart in the back of the clinicians manual. (somewhere between 115lpm@20cm up to 149lpm@4cm). if you don't have a clinicians manual, then get one, instructions on how to are all over this forum, just do a bit of looking. the leaks you've stated you have (seriously, get sleepyhead so you can see what's going on) are NOT *excessive*, unless you're mistaken as to how bad they are... (again, get SleepyHead).

get sleepyhead and get some REAL data. maybe you sleep better with the mask looser, even though it leaks a bit more. this stuff is *complicated* there are a lot of factors involved.

It is possible that with more leaks ... the leaks are waking you up before you have an event ... therefore less events to record.
Fix the leaks and you sleep better and go into rem sleep and have more events.

now it you get the sortware for your computer .... you will be able to see what is happening

Guest wrote: I'll be getting more informed about this, while you'll no doubt continue to be the "what's the opposite of nice guy?" you've been so far.

if it continues to cause you to think and learn, sure.

you've been sarcastic and argumentative from the second message, I just responded in kind since it seemed to be your preferred method of communication.

Guest wrote:Anyway, seriously, thanks for the feedback you've given me, and sorry if I came across that way. Maybe we can put this behind us and forget the acrimony?

sure.

the thing you might consider, like I said elsewhere, when someone says 'you should do this', it seems that your natural inclination is to doubt them, like
"you should get sleepyhead and look at your data",
and you respond with something like
"I don't think I can load anything onto my autoset"

instead of "sleepyhead? what's that?? and spend a couple minutes investigating, perhaps even typing it into the forum search bar, or even something like 'sleepyhead cpap' into google.

there's a tremendous wealth of information on this forum, all you have to do is open yourself up to it.