CPAP First Night

Metter46 · Post by **Metter46** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:14 am

I made it through the night without too much difficulty. Total usage 8 3/4 hours.

Stats from Resmed Software
Apnea Index: 6.3
Obstructive:1.1
Central 5.1
Leaks: 4.5
Hypopnea .3

This seems okay for the first night. Sleep study AHI of 45.

As I increase my data I will try and learn how to post charts and ask for comments.

indyredsfan · Post by **indyredsfan** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:15 am

Great start!

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:17 am

How to post images of reports for review is discussed in this thread.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=81072&p=737779#p737779
Welcome to the forum. Congrats on surviving the first night. I remember mine...I was a nervous wreck.

caffeinatedcfo · Post by **caffeinatedcfo** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:19 am

Welcome! I too was a 45er in my sleep study. This is a VERY helpful forum

Metter46 · Post by **Metter46** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:00 am

Pugsy wrote:How to post images of reports for review is discussed in this thread.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=81072&p=737779#p737779
Welcome to the forum. Congrats on surviving the first night. I remember mine...I was a nervous wreck.

Thanks, I have snipping tool and will try it.

NotLazyJustTired · Post by **NotLazyJustTired** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:07 am

Nice start. Those centrals may dissipate once you adapt to the pressure. Taking those out, your AHI is 1.2. Not too shabby!

Metter46 · Post by **Metter46** » Sat Apr 06, 2013 7:08 am

This is my second night. It seems to be a little better.

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Sat Apr 06, 2013 7:19 am

The first night we are often nervous and don't sleep all that well with a lot of time spent awake and on the machine fiddling with the mask and such. I suspect your increased "central" numbers the first night were probably related more to "awake/semi awake" stuff getting flagged. While awake our breathing is much more irregular than we realize but the machine senses it as not normal. It's normal for awake breathing but not normal for sleep breathing...so we get some sort of event flag. The machine has no way to know if you are asleep or not so it just calls the breathing like it sees it.
It's just something we learn to live with when we see events that are likely awake events getting flagged.
Even now I will see it happen sometimes. A while back I woke up with really bad nausea and lay there thinking about "do I need to get up and go bow to the toilet or not"...well I ended up not getting up but I was awake for about an hour fighting the nausea and I had a truckload of centrals get flagged during that hour. So I had to mentally remove that hour from the calculations because everything got skewed by awake events. What we do is just evaluate the other hours mentally...they look good and we move on.
We can't change the overall numbers though...so it sort of falsely inflates the overall numbers and we just live with it.

caffeinatedcfo · Post by **caffeinatedcfo** » Sat Apr 06, 2013 7:24 am

Ditto to what pugsy said about centrals. Mine have gone down as I've acclimated to CPAP.

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