Don't we agree that you have to be asleep to have OA's? *Real* OA's? My point is that you don't have to be asleep to have real CA's. If we aren't asleep then it's not sleep apnea. Gotta be asleep to have sleep apnea. The machine doesn't measure sleep status....you know that. The machine only measur...

Would you suggest I just ignore the centrals until my brain is more accepting of the CPAP and I get the rainout under control? Or are the centrals contributing to my brain being unsettled? Or is it a coin toss? The machine says my AHI is 4, but they are mostly centrals. Even if every single flagged...

You have to buy an adapter. I don't know of one that continues the electrical connection. If I ever need one for my AS10 I'll just drill a hole in the right-angle piece and add a home depot barb! In case you ever need to add O2 and don't want to jerry rig things... Adapters aren't needed for this o...

ResMed will eventually release the AirSense/AirCurve 11 heated hose with the oxygen port like they have with the AirSense 10 models. Just be patient. You probably have forgotten but back when the AirSense/AirCurve 10 models were released the heated hose with oxygen port wasn't available for several ...

BTW.....just because someone else out there in the world using cpap has a problem with "auto ramp"....that doesn't mean that everyone else in the rest of the world will have the same problem. Don't assume that you will have the same problem with anything. And I am not a big fan of auto ramp but not ...

I was under the impression that if it was set to min 4 pressure with EPR 3 it would activate once the pressure starts increasing upwards, The machine can't ever go below 4 cm even with EPR set to 3. You have to be using 7 cm to get the FULL benefit of EPR but you still get a little reduction as the...

We're gonna have to agree to disagree Pugsy... you need to be asleep to have OA's or H's. We are going to do more than just disagree. Do you have documentation proving what you are asserting? Hmmmm....then I wonder why I have OAs and hyponeas when I am obviously not asleep. Circled in red is the as...

Does anybody really know why a person would have no centrals in a sleep study and then have primarily centrals while on CPAP? For some people cpap therapy actually can trigger the unstable breathing that ends up with someone having more than a few centrals (it is normal to have an occasional centra...

Hold your breath for 15 seconds. That's essentially what a central apnea of 15 second duration is. The airway is open but no air is moving because there is no effort to breathe. That's a central apnea. We pause our breathing all the time while awake and don't realize it. The machine can and will fla...

woke up around 5:00 due to bloating and burping while the pressure was around 14. I I am not sure if this means the min inhale pressure of 7 is too much. Cross your fingers that it was the pressure pushing 14 that was feeding the aerophagia monster and not the 7 cm minimum because you need the mini...

About all you can try with your current machine is to reduce or eliminate EPR in an effort to reduce the number of centrals and that will ONLY work if EPR is the cause of your centrals and ONLY if you were for sure asleep and not awake when they got flagged. Some people have centrals pop up due to u...

When did you start using EPR at 3?
Do you have reports with less EPR and less number of "centrals"?

I can't tell with these reports if the centrals are asleep centrals or awake/arousal related centrals. Is it possible you were awake when they were flagged?

You have to load up a SleepHQ report so that it is public and then provide a link to that report. Once we can access the report it is interactive for us and we can zoom in on the flow rate/breathing and look to see if the flagged events happened while asleep or awake. I can do the zooming in and eva...

Look to the upper left corner of OSCAR for a "Profile" tab....click on it and you will see the profiles you have available and then you can switch/change profiles to download to.

I'm curious if folks have had success with mouth taping and keeping humidity on (though low) and getting leaks to stop? I fail to understand how humidity causes leaks. I use a max humidity setting of 8 and a nasal mask and I don't have a huge amount of excessive leaks and in fact have had a few 0.0...