Sleepyhead: "Your mask is leaking way too much."

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Sleepyhead has sometimes told me that I have major mask leaks. Today is the first time it's reporting that my mask was leaking way too much and that I should talk to my CPAP provider.

1.) Can someone look at my graphs and tell me how I'm doing, leak-rate wise? I do think the large leak woke me up. As far as I can remember, this has only happened once before. The first graph is last night, followed by the two nights preceding it.

2.) Do I really need to talk to a CPAP provider?

3.) How exactly do you fix a leak when you're using the nasal pillows? Once I woke up, I just readjusted the mask headband so that the pillows weren't fitting loosely. Could this be a problem of me not ensuring the headband is tight enough when I first put my mask on before I go to bed?

[Pugsy]

Disregard that warning from SH. Your leaks are NOT excessive.
Instead the statistic reporting the % of time in large leak is based on a ResMed calculation number and that number won't work for your Respironics machine.
Open SH and go to Preferences and then the CPAP tab. SH Defaults to a red line leak threshold of 24 L/min which is a ResMed leak number...won't work with your machine. Your red line threshold number is more like 75...so change the 24 to 75 or just turn off that statistic by removing the check mark.

Large leaks (if you have any) will show up as flags on the Events graph and are a product of the machine.
Those are correct....the SH statistic is just a product of some calculations and isn't from the machine and in your situation with your type of machine...it's wrong.
Ignore it and base your leak evaluation on the presence of large leak flags on the Events graph...the LL on the events graph...that's large leak.

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Sleepyhead has sometimes told me that I have major mask leaks. Today is the first time it's reporting that my mask was leaking way too much and that I should talk to my CPAP provider.

1.) Can someone look at my graphs and tell me how I'm doing, leak-rate wise? I do think the large leak woke me up. As far as I can remember, this has only happened once before. The first graph is last night, followed by the two nights preceding it.

2.) Do I really need to talk to a CPAP provider?

3.) How exactly do you fix a leak when you're using the nasal pillows? Once I woke up, I just readjusted the mask headband so that the pillows weren't fitting loosely. Could this be a problem of me not ensuring the headband is tight enough when I first put my mask on before I go to bed?

unfortunately, the author of sleepyhead, who rarely even uses the software himself, likes to make fairly ignorant editorial comments, and uses default settings that can be very confusing to the average users.

trust Pugsys advice.