Sleepy Head Software

[Irfie]

Alright so it was my day 1 on sleepyhead software and WOW i was really shocked to see the data on sleepyhead, it is very detailed yet very easy to understand the report.

Now the concern i have with my report is that I'm not sure what to bench mark it with, I'm not sure what is a good report or what should be a good report, I'm sure you all have been talking about it for years and years now and are probably tired of talking to newbies like me. But i want you to please take a moment and think me as yourself when you first opened your report, you had many questions and many why's and what's. So if i may seek your assistance to what it should be like or what i am aiming for on my sleepyhead report then it would be really helpful and appreciated.

Or if possible if there is a guide to use it or benchmarking then it would also be helpful if someone could re-direct me there.

Thank you so much for your assistance and support.

Regards,
Irfie

[ChicagoGranny]

benchmarking

This will vary among individuals. My experience:

- AHI less than 2.0, best around 1.0
- No long apneas (>30 seconds)
- Little to no snoring
- Leak level near zero, best would be zero
- 95% pressure no more than 3.0 cm about minimum machine pressure setting

[yaconsult]

It looks like you missed the section at the top of the forum called Announcements. There is an excellent thread there for people like yourself: viewtopic/t88983/Pugsys-PointersSleepyH ... Hints.html Now, don't try to understand every little bit of it, at first. Skim through it and focus on things that you want to understand. Then, when new questions come up, go back to it again and search through it. It is a most excellent resource!

[Irfie]

Thanks a lot for your time and writing in, i appreciate your post.

Yiikkesss, the stats sounds like an all-star soccer team!

uhh, my Ahi varies around 4.5 and 4.2 and some days in mid it goes upto like 9 or 10 (don't know why but guess on those nights i become a warewolf)

Some of my apneas last around 30-40 seconds, while about 60% of them are around 15, so yeah guess i need to improve there.

I have vibratory snore events of like 22 - Is that good or bad on an 8.5 hours of sleep?

And on the leak rate side i can see 2 graphs - one which says leak rate and the other says total leak rate? And the total leak rate looks so scary.

95% no more than 3.0 cm? wow so how do you do that? my pressure settings are at 9-19 but with opt start when i put my mask on, the machine auto starts at 11.5 which then goes upto 15.50. So guess i would need to work alot more and try different tactics to get a better rating.

[Pugsy]

The total leak line looks scary but it isn't.
Respironics machines report "total leak" and total leak is the mask's expected vent/intentional leak (air coming out those vent holes) plus any excess leak so total leak numbers will never be all that low.
The second leak line is a close approximation to excess leak only but it's not acutely accurate especially when someone is using auto adjusting pressures because the vent rate changes every time the pressure changes.

Instead just look on the Events graph and see if there are any Large leak flags...if you don't see any or they are rare and sort lived don't worry about it...as long as you stay out of large leak territory you will be fine.

Oh...SH statistics will default to the "time over red line" to 24 L/min which is a ResMed leak line in the sand for large leak territory so SH will likely tell you that the time spent over the red line threshold is excessive when it isn't. You need to go in and change the default line in the sand or SH will tell you that you are having massive leaks when you aren't.
Go to Preferences/CPAP tab and change the "time over red line threshold" from 24 to something around 75 L/min or just remove the check mark and not use that particular feature...turn it off.

[Irfie]

@yaconsult - Thanks a lot for the link, yes i guess i missed that section or maybe i was too lazy to look up at that section of the announcement --my bad -- but yeah, thanks a lot for the link, i will look up and see how i could educate myself with some data mining skills that i may have.

@Pugsy - Thank you so much for your help as usual, you are always helpful and patient (guess many people won't be with a newbie). I looked up at the large leak graph and it seems like i just had 1 event and thats all, no guess I'm happy that i am good to go over that portion of my concern. I will try and switch the preference off as stated below so that i don't have to look at the horrible stat which just made me panic and demotivated over nothing.

You guys must be experts with all the software, graph, talks and techniques of this world, for me, i just entered this world which is very new to me, and i am learning over the course of time and doing loads of reading, this is new, loads of information but it is very interesting.

[ChicagoGranny]

uhh, my Ahi varies around 4.5 and 4.2 and some days in mid it goes upto like 9 or 10 (don't know why but guess on those nights i become a warewolf)

my pressure settings are at 9-19 but with opt start when i put my mask on, the machine auto starts at 11.5 which then goes upto 15.50.

This is just a guess without seeing any detail data. It could be a simple matter to improve your therapy significantly by raising the minimum pressure.

But, I don't think you should change it on a guess. Instead, post a daily detail chart of a typical night, and Pugsy and some others can give you some advice.

[Irfie]

Heres a report from last night, so not sure if thats good or bad.