I have to agree with pugsy on this one. The pie chart is only useful when it gives you a smiley face. For me that seems to be roughly 50% of the time so it is worth it Otherwise, who cares!

For a bunch of folk who supposedly are getting enough sleep, you sure are grumpy !!

Well it sure seems I stepped into a hot topic Look, my sense is that more often than not the truth is somewhere in the middle, so it doesn't hurt for me to "hear" the stubborn extremes either way. The fact of the matter is that this "treatment" is effective enough so that the machine has only record...

psssst! Happy Birthday Pugsy!

Trust your machine to do its job.. heh.. that's exactly what I'm trying to do here. Right now I trust nothing. I'm so lucky I got a defective pacemaker at one point. Weird things happen to me and that is a fact. The reason I got the pacemaker in the first place? well there are only 25 cases like it...

Ok, three screenshots here: This first makes perfect sense to me. The machine was still on ramp when I had the first event. It pitched up as soon as it could. I was obviously snoring and there's some noise in the flow rate before everything goes up. http://plainhat.com/stuff/Screen_Shot_1.png It is ...

hey folks! I didn't mean to start anything here!!! How about this, can I post one of the times I see it going up from sleepyhead and maybe one of you fine folks can tell me what touched off the rise in pressure. I kinda wanted to do that, but I wasn't sure I could just post screen shots as pictures....

OK I'm learning to look at my data and am wondering at how the machine decides to increase pressure. I'm looking at the graphs where I see it increase the pressure and don't see anything that indicates WHY it chooses to increase when it does. What am I missing?

I have a stupid 17% chance of survival in the next 5 years. ...or actually 2.5 more years. (stage IIIC) Wow! You're half way to the safety zone! And yeah, I've got friends who beat worse odds than that, but that won't help you where you are now. All I can say is keep up the good work! And if you wa...

I think SleepyHead depends on which/what your OS is in the Apple computer. I know it works with Macs. Check to see if the OS in your computer is listed. https://sleepyhead.jedimark.net/ I just installed sleepyhead on my Mac last night so I've recently read up on the requirements. It said that it wo...

With that minimum pressure starting point of 5 cm EPR can really begin to work well because the lowest the machine will go is 4 cm. So even The machine wouldn't usually be increasing the pressure above that 5 cm mark until you are asleep so EPR wouldn't really be working to full capacity until you ...

my pressure settings are at Min 5 Max 20 (cmH2O) with the EPR set at 2 (I'm going to ask them to set it at 3 since exhaling is damned exhausting).

I assume that you had a sleep study..either in a sleep lab or at home. If it was an at home study, the machine you used will give the doctor some indication what pressure would be needed to eliminate apneas. If it was a sleep lab they would hook you up to a machine that would determine pressures ne...

Nope! Glad they didn't. It has taken me three weeks to manage a four hour night with the dang thing. So, no. It is the Autosense machine so maybe they don't think they need to?

I just got my CPAP thang a couple of weeks ago. I've been reading up and wondering that others talk about having a titration study. I've not had one nor has anyone suggested I have one. Is it normal that one does? (not that I want to go through another study, thanks!)