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by persistent
Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:06 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Erratic AHIs
Replies: 20
Views: 4485

Re: Erratic AHIs

Have hope - therapy often needs optimizing. Once we see some data from your machine, people can recommend the best settings for you. It can make a world of difference. For example, what works best for me is to have my minimum pressure set to 13 with my max at 20, but I have a severe non-cpap AHI of...
by persistent
Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:11 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Erratic AHIs
Replies: 20
Views: 4485

Re: Erratic AHIs

Have hope - therapy often needs optimizing. Once we see some data from your machine, people can recommend the best settings for you. It can make a world of difference. For example, what works best for me is to have my minimum pressure set to 13 with my max at 20, but I have a severe non-cpap AHI of...
by persistent
Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:08 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Erratic AHIs
Replies: 20
Views: 4485

Re: Erratic AHIs

Wulfman... wrote:The software is actually "Sleepyhead"........not "Sleepytime".


Den
Thanks for the correction I am off to download
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by persistent
Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:44 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Erratic AHIs
Replies: 20
Views: 4485

Re: Erratic AHIs

Now that you've filled in this information, it is my suspicion as to your problems. Additional Comments: pressure range 6-15 Too wide of a pressure range, minimum pressure is probably too low and your "mask blowby" is probably when it's getting to the higher pressures and your headgear isn't adjust...
by persistent
Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:09 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Erratic AHIs
Replies: 20
Views: 4485

Re: Erratic AHIs

My question to you is: do you beleive Exercise food and stress and coffee can be factors in making your AHIs go up? My personal opinion...no in general but it also depends on what the AHI is composed up. Especially with your System One machine...I think that stress and coffee can directly impact sl...
by persistent
Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:56 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Erratic AHIs
Replies: 20
Views: 4485

Re: Erratic AHIs

Without data, it will be difficult to see what is going on. I found that even tiny amounts of caffeine caused my AHI to double. Other food items do the same thing as well. Since you have a PR machine, I would suggest that you get and use both SleepyHead and Encore to use a tools to try and determin...
by persistent
Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:57 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Erratic AHIs
Replies: 20
Views: 4485

Re: Erratic AHIs

Exactly which model AFlex machine do you have? If you have a newer machine (2010 to present) probably one of the System One machines and Sleepyhead will work with them and you don't need anything special in terms of your computer to use it unless your computer doesn't have a slot for SD card in whi...
by persistent
Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:42 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Erratic AHIs
Replies: 20
Views: 4485

Re: Erratic AHIs

How old is your machine and mask? I got bad results when my machine aged (after 5 years) and eventually croaked. Also, I had large leaks that messed with my therapy (although it kept my AHI levels low) when I got a new machine and used a 1.5 year old mask that I thought fit fine. When I got a repla...
by persistent
Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:23 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Erratic AHIs
Replies: 20
Views: 4485

Erratic AHIs

New to this forum and like all the knowledge of collective minds and I am so impressed how some people try so hard to help another person who is struggling. To those people who give so much,thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have been using cpap for over ten years off and on with minimal resul...