not sure how to interpret sleepyhead data?

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poisen
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not sure how to interpret sleepyhead data?

Post by poisen » Wed May 15, 2019 6:18 pm

Hello, posting my sleepyhead data for the first time. I'm not consistently below 5 yet and I am using a bilevel machine. My sleep study said things were hard to control and they had me up to a 21 pressure on bilevel after avg 55 events during test. That pressure level felt like getting punched in the face. Right now I am set to 8/16 but that's more me tweaking it up higher because the meds had me set to 7/14 and was getting avg 10 events...I use an air curve s with a f30 full face mask because couldn't tolerate nasal.

Here is everything overall for the night
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Here is a closeup of what my events normally look like...
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I don't understand what's going on with the squiggly part i highlighted? choking?
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katestyles
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Re: not sure how to interpret sleepyhead data?

Post by katestyles » Wed May 15, 2019 6:21 pm

The squiggly bit is when the machine uses FOT to decide what type of apnea you are experiencing. It then knows if it should increase the pressure or leave it

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Re: not sure how to interpret sleepyhead data?

Post by palerider » Wed May 15, 2019 6:36 pm

Here's how the "FOT" works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GW97Xk06N8

And, yeah, your pressure is too low, you'd likely do much better with a VAuto instead of the S machine, it could respond to your needs during those periods when you need more pressure.
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