Positional or Nonpositional OSA: Do you know?

[Wednesday4Ever]

I also had a strange incident a couple of weeks agoo where it seemed to collect a hell of a lot of humidity. Enough to pour out of the seal - pretty spectacular.

Sounds like "rainout" - humidifier vapors condense inside the hose and/or mask.

Some easy solutions:

1. Turn the humidifier setting down.

2. Buy or make a fleece hose cover for insulation and sound dampening - https://www.cpap.com/productpage/snuggl ... cover.html

3. Place the CPAP below the level of the top of the mattress and run the hose down toward the CPAP machine. If rainout occurs it will run back into the humidifier tank and not into your face!

Many thanks, ChicagoGranny - repositioning the CPAP machine seems to have worked - at least I haven't had any problems with humidity since.

[SleepyToo2]

For those of you interested in accelerometers, I came across this site yesterday - it appears to be an ad, but I couldn't find a price anywhere: http://camntech.com/products/motionwatc ... 8-overview

[BasementDwellingGeek]

I think somebody has mentioned that they use something that tells them their body position

There are several of us tinkering with accelerometers.
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I resemble that remark and have proven using an accelerometer that my apneas are nearly 100% positional (nearly all while on my back).

I have been noticing increased occurrence for apneas while on my back with the S9 that didn't seem to be an issue with the PRS1. I'm wondering if EPR vs C-Flex is the reason or is my body just changing. Time to experiment backing down the EPR level and maybe spending a week on the PRS1.

Post by SleepyToo2 on Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:00 pm
For those of you interested in accelerometers, I came across this site yesterday - it appears to be an ad, but I couldn't find a price anywhere: http://camntech.com/products/motionwatc ... 8-overview

In the advertisement they don't' state that device exports the raw data needed to figure position. It seems biased towards reporting the magnitude and duration of movement. I'm guessing that the software infers sleep state the same way the accelerometer smartphone applications do. I would shy away from it or ask lots of questions first.