Is CPAP equally effective through only one nostril?
I only ever have one nostril open when I lie down. The other closes up almost completely.

Would this effect how much pressure I should need?

Janelle wrote:start suggesting Sleep studies for everyone who mentions they snore loudly, are tired all the time, depressed, or irritable...!

Oh God I do that all the time

You might be a CPAP user if… Having a leak in the night doesn’t mean visiting the bathroom. You’ve been through so many masks you could open a second hand store. You’ve realised that if you’re not in the mood for ‘lovin’ you can quickly put your mask ON which quickly puts your partner OFF. You know...

Liam , it would be interesting to see some proper studies done on this type of thing. If you think about it physiotherapy to strengthen damaged or weakened muscles is such a proved and tested method that it’s employed all the time. Maybe some kind of physio for the airway could be developed? Of cou...

The problem seems to have solved itself! I've just download three days of data and the detailed reports are there for each day. The other download of six days still just shows the last night's though - go figure?

day for night,

Yea, that’s the mask I started out with because I thought it would be best to have the mask and machine from the same manufacturer. Wow was I wrong! If I’d have found this forum before I ordered the machine I could have saved myself the cash.

Gregg

Rested gal, You’re completely right when you say: I think it's important to look at the Encore table chart to see just how much of your night was spent at pressures much, much lower than the highlighted "90%" number. And then consider the tradeoffs. Upping the lower pressure to essentially what you...

tonimari98 Excellent news ! You sound so much brighter than your earlier posts. The same thing has happened with me. After nearly three weeks, although I'm still dog tired all day and wish I could go on sleeping in the morning I've noticed that I feel like I've actually slept when I wake up. I've e...

Liam , you help to make this forum an actual pleasure to come to, when really it could be part of the pain. As Derek said: What I find so different about this board is the up-beat attitude, and the ability to laugh at ourselves in the presence of a somewhat intrusive nightly therapy. For me you’ve ...

rested gal, You are right in what you say and I too am a fan of autopaps (I have a REMstar with Cflex ) However I've noticed from my data that the smaller the range the less events I have e.g. If I have it set 4-20 I get AHIs of 6-8. If I set it to 6-20 I get AHIs of 4-5. When I set it to 10-20 (10 ...

Mikesus,

Yea that's what I want, but even by choosing a single night using the date range it does not bring up the detailed daily data.

I will be interested to know if it works for you.

Gregg

That’s how I've been using it, usually each day. But when I recorded 5 nights in a row without downloading I found that the long term trend report showed the averaged AHI etc across all the nights, but there was no detail data for individual nights, except for the last night. This was a bummer becau...

I waited 5 days before downloading the data from the card.
When I tried to access the detailed AHI Etc data for each individual night
there was no data recorded! It had only the last night's data.

Is this a fault with my card? Or maybe the software?

Gregg

Wader I'm on 10cm - 14cm at the moment. (I know 10cm seems high for a starting pressure, but this was my 10% at 4cm - 20cm and staying at 4-20 or even 6-20 was giving me an AHI of 6-8. With a 10cm starting pressure my AHI is down to 1.4- still experimenting though) There is a distinct whoosh as the...

Hey Yoga,

I tried putting a peice of plastic netting in the barrel of my Swift and it has made the noise more tolarable.

Thank you.