Congratulations and I hope you can kick it for good. As a non-smoker, but one with a wife that does smoke I see the difficulties in kicking smoking, there is not only the brain's addiction to the nicotine but there is the large habit and daily activities also. My wife quite once for about 6 months b...

What! No pasta? ... Oh never mind it's already out past-a-my belt Over the past few years I've often said I suffer from Dunlop's disease. The carbs was one of the biggest things the dietician wanted me to work on, and eating two or three helpings in one sitting did not help - but I was starving all ...

Sorry to hear this. I know how hard it is to have to wait at the mercy of the sleep lab, and my issues/waits most certainly pale in comparison with yours. If this delay means that you get a more meaningful study done then it may be for the best, but if it is simply to take advantage and train everyo...

I know I for one certainly wish I knew several years ago what I know now - untreated OSA can (and will) cause a whole cascade of other health issues. In 2005 I was diagnosed with moderate sleep apnea, an AHI of around 70 if I remember right, but surprisingly still had good sleep quality numbers as I...

Thanks for sharing your story. I'm glad to hear that things are better now, good for you! I fear that there are a large number of people with treatment that is "less than optimal" and never know it. I truly believe that each and every machine should be as a bare minimum be fully data capable and ide...

I can't say I'm a success story yet being only on CPAP for 72 days so far, but I have lost 16 pounds since starting the CPAP and have started to see by blood pressure also drop somewhat. I can only hope this continues as I still have another 72 pounds that I should lose. If I can drop another 10 pou...

I switched to a water pillow before starting CPAP when I was having problems with neck pain. It took a bit to adjust the amount of water but overall I like the water pillow. They are certainly much heavier than most pillows but this just means they stay in one place very well. I find the pillow work...

During my sleep study my longest apnea event was 62 seconds with an AHI of 119. So far on treatment and my AHI averaging 2.9 over the past 14 days and my longest apnea event was 49 seconds during treatment the first couple of weeks, most are between 12 and 25 seconds now.

My story is well documented in my threads but I'll summarize for you. I had my original sleep study done in Mid November and had to push to get the follow-up pushed because I was feeling so badly and in mid December finally got to see the sleep doctor. I was told I have severe sleep apnea with an AH...

Worst night so far. I turned off the EPR as suggested, big mistake. I tossed and turned until 2:30, slept on back, side and stomoch, and finally realized what was happening. About every 30 seconds it was like a air bubble popped up in my mouth and I had to open my mouth to release the air. I turned...

Here is part of my chart: http://www.grahampage.info/ahi.jpg These look like pretty much all central apneas, are you sure it is obstructive sleep apnea you were diagnosed with? Increasing pressure, or even fixing the leaks, will not get rid of central apneas and at a pressure of only 7 these should...

I read this and just picture someone screaming GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! ... and hope it is not me.
Those are really not the kind of equipment bugs I want to have.

Having spent much of my work life in instrumentation, data acquisition and control as well as writing analysis software for end customers I can safely say that I do know what the undertaking really is. Graphing of the files and even some form of customizable data analysis is quite easily done and sh...

Alex, I am so glad to hear that things have worked out well for you, and congrats on the good numbers.
I am sure now with some regular restorative sleep you sill start to feel even better over the coming weeks.

I've started working on the something very similar. The ResMed machines, or at least the S9, uses a standard EDF file format and if you are reading them directly you can ignore the CRC files as they are only needed by ResMed's software. The annotation file is EDF+D format. If you check around there ...