Actually the night with the worst Desat ever was when I upped the pressure to 10.0 cm. The other nights I have been at 9.5 and my OAI numbers have been better at the lower pressure. http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll303/scififan2008/051808_summary.jpg For instance my Desat last night looked like ...

According to an email from Keeme a representative from the maker of the CMS 50-E, a zero indicates that the unit has come off and is not reporting anything. He said that should not affect the other readings around that time. The leak rate did go up some around the time of the low desat event. It pea...

Any thoughts from anyone?

My heart rate was right at 55 during nearly that whole time. After then 7 seconds of no readings, the heart rate started back up at 70 and didn't come back down for about 30 seconds.[/img]

I have been using a CMS 50-E to monitor my SpO2 levels at night. I notice that I spend nearly the whole night in the upper 90's. However, once or twice a night it dips down low. Last night it dipped down to 39 for two seconds. That is the lowest I have seen. Most nights it dips into the 70's. During...

I have all of my equipment now, again thanks for everyone's input. Particularly the Ayr's Nasal Gel, that really helped with the sore nose. I think I'm going to need several more days of data to understand what the reports are telling me. The first night with the new APAP machine I tried the Auto fu...

Well, I have the Respironics M Series Auto CPAP with A-Flex and the F&P HC 150 Humidifier on order from cpap.com. I also received the CMS-50E Oximeter yesterday. The documentation was definitely lacking, but it does work. It documented 5 events where the SpO2 level was between 85 - 89. I look forwar...

Thanks for all the good advice. I have ordered the CMS-505E Oximeter and will see what that tells me next week. I do have the two page report from the first sleep test and page one of the second sleep test. The second test does show the AHI going from 32.4 to .7 at 4 cm and down to .6 at 5 cm. The p...

jimbasset, Thanks for the quick reply! I included the machine (HC233) and current mask (Opus 360 Nasal Pillow CPAP Mask) in my signature. Since the HC233 includes a built in humidifier and no software capability, I didn't complete the other portions in the profile. What other information should I in...

Wow, a lot of information here! I just started therapy on 3/11/08. I received my equipment before finding this site. My DME is renting me a HC233 with an Opus nasal pillow mask. I find that my nose is sore every morning, so after finding this site this weekend I have ordered the Profile Lite Nasal C...