Hello all. Long time since I've been here. I've just gone through the installation procedure for Oscar 1.2. It duly created the data directory, which in my system, was created by the install (with direction from me) as F:\My Documents\OSCAR_Data. But it's giving me "Unable to write to Oscar data dir...

I'd still appreciate some more input from more experienced users, as I'd like to know if I'm doing something wrong and if something could still be improved. Your inspiration/expiration ratio is inverted from normal. That's not uncommon, but yours is rather pronounced. I don't know whether it's clin...

First a question: When you say "at those high pressures" what do you mean? The data you showed had max pressures of 10 and 12cm. Are you talking about when the machine is at 10cm? ............... Good question, because the data above also indicate that there's hardly any leak issue at all (assuming...

Perhaps side sleeping would help?

Thank you PR. Yes, I'm looking at the CMS50i........... at the very least, it *does* work with 098, I'm just not sure about 1.0b, I've heard mixed reports. I can direct download the CMS50i into the SH beta, but the data don't display properly synced to the sleep session. I played with the import pa...

The Respiration rate graph is useless.............. Out of curiosity, why do you say this Pugsy? (Full disclosure: In another forum, I advised the OP to show respiration.) We see from this one that breathing is erratic, there are humps in it (which I look for as first step to postulating REM stages...

.............. Your posted report doesn't show the pressure graph and includes graphs that I personally don't utilize like the minute volume graph. Are you trying to decided if what you are seeing (the events flagged) is real or not? ........... That configuration was just to show the respiration a...

Thanks Pugsy for the response. .............. No machine out there will label anything to do with REM sleep...about all I have ever done is look at the pattern of any events or pressure increases and the timing of the cycles .............. The machines or the software won't give us definitive marker...

Nice informative post Pugsy. These facts caught my eye: .........I happen to be one of those whose REM stage sleep causes their OSA to be about 5 times worse in REM than in non REM........Back then our machines didn't flag centrals either. .......... So regarding the increase in events during REM, a...

I just got back from a 2 week vacation when I was using my backup cpap at the beginning of this week, and there's a 14-day empty space in the Sleepyhead Overview, as there should be. However, the compliance for the last 30 days that Sleepyhead displays is 100%? Interesting, but that doesn't seem ac...

.......... rkl122 Thank you for your post, this is an area where I am clueless and need the expertise of this group. How do I set up the machine, what settings??? Hi NormagiJoy, Turn the dial to the "settings" menu, then press and hold down simultaneously that button and the ramp button until the m...

......could I use his machine for a night or two and check sleepyhead reports for my results??? Would this work? You probably realize this, but to come as close as possible to simulating a sleep study, you'd want to minimize the probability that the machine might actually provide treatment - i.e. y...

............ Is it possible to determine if you've achieved REM sleep from the results of this diagnostic software? Hi krl. While I agree that polysomnography is the only scientific way to know for sure, I do believe that I can identify some REM periods accurately. Not necessarily for every instanc...

.........Just start to make a "K" sound and you will put those muscles into play. ........ Now if instead of trying to vocalize a K, you force the air into the nasal passage - sorta like a micro snore - you get what I call the Norman Fell snort. The late Norman Fell was the actor in "The Graduate" ...

............... I don't think you're going to find the answer to your non-restorative sleep in the minutia of your sleep statistics. No doubt, you can make some minor adjustments which might further reduce H and OA, but probably not a great deal. As demonstrated by your posts, most of your events o...