Sleep studies do often have the ability to assess position vs events; but the provider$ are rarely motivated to provide that information to the patient. You can probably $ee why. :| Would you explain please? I really don't see why a provider (doctor) would be motivated to withhold positional/event ...

LindaGinCanada wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:17 pm

Perhaps your sleep doctor/professional can recommend a better fitting mask.

I'm sorry Linda, were you addressing me or the Original poster

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:29 pm

BTW, I don't like the idea of taping the mask to the chin.

So are you taping your lips closed? Doesn't that force you to breath only through your nose? I just can't do that for anatomical reasons.

I have started taping bottom of my mask where air leaks happen often. I'm intrigued by your remark about taping the bottom of the mask, so could I ask you a couple of questions? Are you using a full face mask - that is is the bottom of your mask between the tip of your chin and your lower lip? If d...

I was the financial caretaker for my parents and my mother in law for several years before their deaths. They were all in the 80s-90s. Every year I would have to explain over and over why they might not do well on the Medicare Advantage programs that they saw on TV relentlessly. The message that the...

89% was the accuracy for identifying sleep/awake. The accuracy for identifying sleep stages was 53% for Apple and 50% for Garmin. That still doesn't tell me anything about what was measured and how accuracy was calculated, BUT somewhat of a distraction and beside the point. (BTW, REM is never menti...

You don't say which smart watch brand or model. An Apple and a Garmin. It don't know about your study (don't even understand what 89% means). All I can tell you is that the watch correctly identified 3 periods of REM. When I compared the start/stop times for each period the watch was within 60 seco...

How would you know you are in REM? Smart watch At first I was skeptical that a device worn on my wrist was reliable, but comparing the REM times reported on the smart watch with REM times reported on in-lab sleep study, I was satisfied that the smart watch does as good a job reporting the start and...

I'm thinking I understand Sleep-Wake-Junk as it applies to disregarding events. But what I'd like to ask is typically can you experience SWJ while in REM stage sleep? Not at the beginning of REM, not at the end of REM, but midway during a period of REM stage.