He is going to his parents this weekend so I will call him there and find out why the evasive action when I asked about personal use of the Encore software. He told you "...due to active litigation issues...". Only company lawyers are probably allowed to make comments that could have an affect on a...

...ALSO - respironics told me yesterday that the smart card would hold many months of data and I did not have to worry about downloading every 7 days, which is contrary to what I read on this site. Comments on that?... I can't really comment on what the smart card can hold, but I can tell you what ...

My BMI was and is 21.5 (5' 10", 150 lbs.). My wife nagged me into seeing an ENT because of snoring. The ENT sent me to a sleep doc "to rule out" apnea since I don't fit the profile. The sleep doc (whom I have no respect for) didn't take me seriously, thought my only problem was not allocating enough...

...what would be the benifit, the machine already tells me my apnea's and hypoapneas, leak and compliance... Well, maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. When I started my treatment I believed the numbers on the machine. After a week I got a printout of my data from my DME. They glanced at the numbers...

When you generate the report in Encore Pro, tell it you want the "Full Details". You can do that with data that you've already downloaded from the smartcard. The full details report can show compliance for over a month, but the details are limited to the last 7 days. As long as you download from you...

Encore Pro uses a special smartcard reader. The ones that your machines already have will not work for Encore Pro. If you got a card reader with your software, you'll need to install the drivers for the card reader before you plug the card reader into your computer . For XP, you install the card rea...

1.8 might also be required for the new A-Flex machines.

Encore Pro 1.8 definitely shows leak information for a M-Series Auto. You have to generate a "full detail" report and look at the daily pages. The leak information is in the bottom half of each page.

You could contact Respironics to find out for certain. But I'll take a stab at it anyway. Don't blame me if I'm wrong. My guess is that Encore Pro only writes to the card when you explicitly tell it to either by erasing the data, or intentionally setting something on it. (I think Encore Pro might ha...

Welcome to the forum! If you are like most of us, you'll learn more hear than you will from your Dr. I'm wondering what equipment I should push for. APAP vs. CPAP, for example. There are advantages to an APAP, but some people do fine with just a CPAP. You might need different pressures at different ...

I've been on CPAP for about 3 months using OptiLife most of that time. I used CFLEX starting out, but turned it off as an experiment to reduce aerophagia. Initially exhaling was an issue, but no more so than with the FP 421. Now I don't even notice even when I first put it on. The OptiLife also tend...

I have also found that my aerophagia is much worse when side-sleeping than when on my back. I've been a side-sleeper all my life and training myself to sleep on my back is not going as quickly as I'd like, but it's still better than waking up feeling like a balloon. Talk to you OB about what to do d...

So what does it mean when my M-Series APAP consistently reports my "flow limitation" in the 35% to 45% range? Is that amount of time that I'm in a flow limitation state, or is it the average severity of my flow limitation? The flow limitation isn't reported by EncorePro, but it is reported by Encore...

I'm not an oldtimer, but I know that the leak rates reported on the LCD display by an M-Series Auto is unreliable if you leave the machine plugged in all the time. They might be better if you unplug it each day.

I'm probably stating the obvious, but FF masks don't work so well for folks with a beard like me. I tried the Fischer and Paykel HC431 for a week, but there was a constant leak under my chin. I was spending over 80% of the night registering a "large leak". The machine reported my AHI as being very l...