A bit of reassurance and a whole lotta humor in your responses...I needed both! Thanks! Sleep is tiring! I have backed off on discussing how many hours or whatever with the machine. I don't say anything about whatever I noticed in the readings, like his leak rate is up compared to what it has routin...

Yes his machine is data capable. I hope things pick up...it has been a long road.

A pm suggestion came to post to the forum what is going on here lately. Bipap at 14/10, HI weekly reading 2.0, monthly reading 3.7, AI weekly/monthly reading 0.0. Leak rate 0.10 on the average. After several months of no usage time recorded, my husband made it to 6-7 hrs a night. Good deal for about...

Tech comments: frequent PLMs that resulted in arousal sleep appeared restless and disturbed Clinical Report: # of PLM: 142 PLM Index: 24.1 PLM Arousal Index: 0.5 PLM w/AHI Count: 0 PLM with AHI: 0.0 PLM & Sleep Stages: Stage 1: 7 Stage 2: 135 No Stages 3 & 4 No REM PLM Events with Arousal: Non-REM: ...

Does anyone have any comments on using melatonin with OSA? Husband's results indicated latency to sleep stages and I was curious if melatonin would assist in reducing this time? Would his regular doctor be able to test for low melatonin via blood test or am I just looking for a quick fix instead of ...

Thanks again for the responses! Read, learn and ask questions....advice given in this forum...and good advice it has been! Biting off little pieces of the unknown of sleep apnea is so helping us to understand it and take ownership of it. It's getting easier to let go of some of the fears by getting ...

Ideally the machine is most productive 100% of the time. When the sleep center they look for minimum 70% time, knowing we did not have insurance compliance issues, I was just trying to figure out if that's like a bottom cutoff they would use to know about the treatment program. I just wasn't sure wh...

Anyone also dealing with PLM? Anyone have any suggestions how to calm those busy legs besides dr prescrip? I read that some consider this leg movement an attempt by the body to "kick start" the breathing. I would think that they would reduce with productive cpap therapy as it would reduce the number...

Thanks for the info.....SWS? Another question lurking in this brain......the sleep ctr said they like to see 70% usage compliance. She said 70% usage per night displays good therapy along with seeing the reduction of AHI/AI during that time. So if I'm doing this observation correctly: 8 hrs X 70% =5...

So how do you work toward deep sleep stages? Does it just improve with use of therapy? Does it improve as you reduce sleep debt? Thanks!

Thanks for both responses. Disorder kinda explained it, didn't it! Seems if you're deprived of sleep your body would go to where it can recover the fastest but apparently that's not the way it is. Hard to think outside of the box sometimes!

On the sleep study it indicated no stage 3 or 4 levels were recorded, but there was slight REM time and solid stages 1 and 2. Could someone please explain how stages could be skipped? With therapy REM was noted but still not 3 or 4. I thought sleep was progressive thru the 5 levels.

Okay, let me see if I can't clarify the bed issue. Originally he had a cpap at 16 and was in the bedroom struggling to get the hour a night he did for four months. Than the dr changed to a bipap at 14/10, which he found more tolerable but still no increase in usage time and still in the bedroom. Alo...

Sorry if this is a repeat post...not sure if my submit happened cuz I didn't hit the submit. Me waking him up is something he might be passive to since it's old hat. The alarm might be something different to arouse him and make him responsible for. He has talked to a few successful, longtime cpap us...

Leak Alert is turned off on his machine. If it was turned on, I am guessing it would make some kinda of sound to say the mask has been removed. Would he sound be enough to stir him awake enough to replace the mask? He previously had little time on his back, just kinda kick back beginning bedtime on ...