New to CPAP therapy and would appreciate SH data review

[Soosecip]

Hello, 24 days (3/28/16) in, feeling empowered and determined to succeed.
3 days of SH data for review and appreciate advice, comments and suggestions.



BTW: this forum has been invaluable in helping me to take hold of my therapy.
Let me know if you have any questions that I can answer to fill in any gaps.

[ChicagoGranny]

Sorry, but that is awful fuzzy and small for my old eyes. Here are some instructions for taking better screenshots - https://sleep.tnet.com/resources/sleepy ... screenshot

[Wulfman...]

I'm confused. You have a DreamStation Auto BiPAP in your profile, but the report says APAP (Auto CPAP).

But, your minimum pressures look a little too low to me.


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[robysue]

Soosecip,

The Leak Graphs are acceptable. Not great, but ok. You may need to keep an eye on them to make sure they don't get worse.

The AHI is still a bit high and it looks like your machine is increasing the pressure a fair amount in response to some significant OA and H clusters. You appear to be running in a pretty wide APAP range. (It is hard to tell because the graphs are blurry.) You may want to bump the min pressure setting up much closer to your 90% pressure level, which I can't read. However, the pressure graph makes it look like your 90% pressure level is likely to be on the high side of 13cm. I'm not sure I'd make the jump from a min pressure = 6 or 7 all the way to a min pressure of 11 or 12 in one night. But it is reasonable to bump that min pressure up to around 9cm and leave it there for 4-7 days and then re-evaluate whether you need to bump the min pressure up a second time.

It's also not clear how much usage time there is because of the blurriness of the graphs.

[palerider]

Sorry, but that is awful fuzzy and small for my old eyes. Here are some instructions for taking better screenshots - https://sleep.tnet.com/resources/sleepy ... screenshot

Granny... open each image in a new window, then edit the URL, and remove the l that's just before the .png in each file name.

in other words, turn

Code: Select all

http://i.imgur.com/1tUNR1Wl.png
into
http://i.imgur.com/1tUNR1W.png

and you'll get full size images.

[ChicagoGranny]

remove the l

Thanks, but why that? Seems like they weren't set up properly to start with. I thought maybe he wasn't taking the screenshot at full screen.

[palerider]

remove the l

Thanks, but why that? Seems like they weren't set up properly to start with. I thought maybe he wasn't taking the screenshot at full screen.

Imgur lets you upload a full size pic, then select various size thumbnails. the l says "display a large thumbnail."

if the person clicked on the 'linked bbcode" instead of the plain bbcode, then you could have clicked through to a full size link.

[Soosecip]

Hi All,
Updated my DreamStation info.
I created my profile way back when I didn't know the difference.
I also updated the SH charts in the OP,following the Imgur instructions to use 'Linked BB" and large thumbnail.
NOTE: Last night (4/21/2016) AHI was 3.35. I'm thrilled.
Also picked up an oximeter, used it last night and uploaded results to SH this morning.
I can upload the SH chart if anyone is interested.

[ChicagoGranny]

Last night (4/21/2016) AHI was 3.35. I'm thrilled.