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by gadgetmaniah
Wed Apr 28, 2021 9:34 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice
Replies: 160
Views: 9527

Re: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice

The pressure pulse events don't mean anything so ignore them for now. It's just the machine trying to figuring out what is going on with what it senses is happening with the airway. Pressure pulses are used to help distinguish open airway events from collapsed airway events. Flow limitations...19 i...
by gadgetmaniah
Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:49 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice
Replies: 160
Views: 9527

Re: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice

When you are having prolonged times with difficulty falling asleep just reach over and turn the machine off and then right back on again. This will show up in the graphs as a break in therapy and make it easy to know that anything flagged around those breaks in therapy you were awake and not asleep...
by gadgetmaniah
Tue Apr 27, 2021 12:06 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice
Replies: 160
Views: 9527

Re: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice

When you are having prolonged times with difficulty falling asleep just reach over and turn the machine off and then right back on again. This will show up in the graphs as a break in therapy and make it easy to know that anything flagged around those breaks in therapy you were awake and not asleep...
by gadgetmaniah
Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:50 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice
Replies: 160
Views: 9527

Re: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice

OSCAR https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/ http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php?title=OSCAR_Installation http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php/CPAP_Data_Interpretation Once you sleep with the SD card in your machine use the above software. http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t158560/How-to-post-i...
by gadgetmaniah
Mon Apr 26, 2021 2:23 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice
Replies: 160
Views: 9527

Re: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice

Pugsy wrote:
Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:42 pm
Just make sure the SD card is in the machine when you use the machine.

You don't have to do anything special.
Ok, great. Thank you.
by gadgetmaniah
Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:57 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice
Replies: 160
Views: 9527

Re: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice

Thank you. That sounds like useful advice!

Also, I'm not sure if anyone knows, but after you insert a memory card into your CPAP and it has detected it (I have a Philips REMStar Auto A-Flex), do you need to do anything more or will it start recording on to it automatically?
by gadgetmaniah
Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:15 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice
Replies: 160
Views: 9527

Re: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice

I see, thank you! Yeah, I guess it will take some time getting used to. I do need to be able to get a good sleep so that I can analyze my data and take it from there. I'm not even sure if I even have sleep apnea at the moment since I haven't had a study, but I guess the data could give some indicati...
by gadgetmaniah
Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:47 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice
Replies: 160
Views: 9527

Re: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice

Where do you live? Unless your stomach issues are horrible...yes, keep the current settings and don't go increasing the pressure right now. Did you turn on A Flex exhale relief? If not, turn it on and set it to 2 and see how that does with the belly issues. Thank you so much for the quick response....
by gadgetmaniah
Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:24 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice
Replies: 160
Views: 9527

New APAP user without sleep study looking for advice

Hello, I've been having terrible sleep apnea like symptoms for a year (exhaustion, headaches, sleep deprivation despite number of hours slept). I originally intended to get a sleep study done but that's really difficult to do at the moment due to the Covid situation and because where I live there's ...