CPAPNEA - when adjusting your face mask wakes you up

[stubones99]

We have a new word CPAPnea that describes when your cpap mask causes face farts, air leaks, or pressure points requiring you to wake up and adjust them.

Shouldn't there be an alternate counter for them? subtract them from your AHA count?

[k_ogre]

my mask (P10) doesn't wake me when it get a whistle the wife poking me does however

[Darth Lady]

I get dinged by Dartha for hypopneas quite often while squirming around when awake to adjust mask, pillows, Sweetieboo's elbow, etc., etc....

[LSAT]

I get dinged by Dartha for hypopneas quite often while squirming around when awake to adjust mask, pillows, Sweetieboo's elbow, etc., etc....

When you are awake and squirming around any "dinging" would most likely be scored as CAs. Hypopnias would need a partial blockage.

[Darth Lady]

I get dinged by Dartha for hypopneas quite often while squirming around when awake to adjust mask, pillows, Sweetieboo's elbow, etc., etc....

When you are awake and squirming around any "dinging" would most likely be scored as CAs. Hypopnias would need a partial blockage.

I do a lot of grunting and breathing through partially closed vocal cords, not to mention crooking my neck, etc., while I'm squirming around, so my airway is partially closed at those times.

[chunkyfrog]

If adjusting the face mask wakes you, who is doing the adjusting?
Aliens?

[kteague]

When looking at my data, unless something is really concerning, I tend to assume most issues are during my several wakings each night. If I thought I slept all night and saw junk in my data I'd be more concerned. Do your leaks have an identifiable cause? Some common causes are the jaw relaxing and dropping, the mask pushing against the bed pillow, tugging of the hose on the mask. If you can identify the root cause of the leaks and address those, you could take steps to prevent some of the episodes. These data capturing machines are great, and the gurus can even look in greater detail and reasonably guess if one was awake, but from an overview of the numbers, you're right, the numbers may not be a totally accurate reflection of our actual AHI. I'm glad we can at least be in the ballpark.

[palerider]

Shouldn't there be an alternate counter for them? subtract them from your AHA count?

why? your AHI is caused by *breathing* irregularities, not noises and leaks.