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by ifsmithy
Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:27 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: altitude and cpap? Suppl O2
Replies: 4
Views: 2472

Re: altitude and cpap? Suppl O2

Most of these events are obstructive hypopneas with a few apneas here and there. I had a large increase in central apneas in the second half of the night.
by ifsmithy
Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:22 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: altitude and cpap? Suppl O2
Replies: 4
Views: 2472

altitude and cpap? Suppl O2

So 5 weeks ish into my journey of cpap and all appears to be working well. I spent a night at 8000 feet last week - and forgot my cpap machine - normally my AHI is 12ish - but at altitude it was off scale - I was using a Wesper tracking device. At 8000feet SpO2 can drop pretty remarkably in 'normal'...
by ifsmithy
Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: using a Childs o2 oximeter?
Replies: 1
Views: 1852

using a Childs o2 oximeter?

I find the adult wellvue o2 ring to not be snug and it's giving me strange readings when I wear it during the day to largely not trust it at night - spo2 wildly fluctuating. Does anyone have any input on whether I can wear the Childs versions - it will be smaller and likely fit better - any other is...
by ifsmithy
Sun Nov 19, 2023 7:50 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Wesper
Replies: 10
Views: 10256

Re: Wesper

Im now 6 nights in on using it - anyone else? I'm pretty impressed so far - confirmed to me my apnea (as diagnosed from a watch pat one) is positional - have a pretty good repeatable baseline on control nights and then versus nights with no back sleeping. Now I'm trying no back sleeping with cpap to...