Newbie needing advice tweaking stuff!

General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.
mrapnea
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Re: Newbie needing advice tweaking stuff!

Post by mrapnea » Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:42 pm

Pugsy wrote:
Wed Jan 23, 2019 4:09 am
mrapnea wrote:
Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:13 pm
For some particular reason, I can’t seem to get rid of the central apneas. It is driving me insane! Dont know if I should pay attention to it or not,
You can't do anything about them with this machine...so quit trying.
Hold your breath for 10 seconds...that's a 10 second central apnea...a few of them...no big deal.

It's normal to have a few central apneas anyway...sleep onset centrals. They are considered normal and not usually a problem unless they keep bouncing you out of sleep or you have so many of them back to back that you get significant drops in oxygen levels.
Yours are no where near that numerous.

Some of your centrals might be SWJ flagged events.
Go here and watch the videos and learn how to look at the flow rate up close to see if they are real or not.
http://freecpapadvice.com/sleepyhead-free-software

Even if every single central you see is the real deal (which I doubt)...you aren't having enough of them for anyone to worry about them. Doctors won't get concerned until you are seeing 5 per hour...all night long..every night. Yours are a long way from that.
Thanks a lot Pugsy for the info! I am looking at the link you posted, so that I can learn some cool stuff and get a little out of my head!
I am trying to understand Sleepyhead better so that I can keep a close look at my data, tweak what needs tweaking and learn to ignore the irrelevant stuff! 😁