Is there something wrong with my Airsense10?

I have had two nights this week where my airsense10 did not read my time using the machine. I woke and noticed last night that I thought it was rainout and I was having a hard time breathing. Looking on Sleepyhead, I see that this is when the machine seemed to act up. I also notice my pressure is set at 6 yet it shows it went to 10.

Do I have a defect in my machine?

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Your pressure went up to 10 (I imagine) because that's where apneas occurred. Your low pressure setting is just a jumping off point, not results.

Right after the pressure went up the machine quit recording data till early morning. During this time is when I was having trouble breathing, I guess from the higher pressure I am not use to and the high humidity from the rainout? It was like I could not get enough air. Just seems to me my machine is not acting right in not recording data, and the higher than my set pressure.

So if my pressure is set at 6, my machine can go up to 20 if needed to get me out of apnea? Why is data stopped? I know it is an auto machine but it is set in CPAP mode.

This has happened twice in the past 4 days of losing data and I have had a few other nights I had to labor deep breathing to get back to sleep.

Is it possible you lost power?

At 1:30 your mask leaked enough that the machine thought you took it off, and turned off..
At 6:30 .. ether you woke and adjusted the mask ... or the mask shifted back into position and the machine started again.

grayghost4 wrote:At 1:30 your mask leaked enough that the machine thought you took it off, and turned off..
At 6:30 .. ether you woke and adjusted the mask ... or the mask shifted back into position and the machine started again.

I got up to pee about 115. I do not have auto on/off active. I woke again around 300 when I was having a hard time breathing but worked thru getting my breathing in control as it was laborious deep breathing. I took off my mask and readjusted it as I was in a near rainout condition and put it back on.The machine was on during this time because I could hear it as I was breathing. I know I had my mask on when I awoke at 630 and turned the machine off. I saw that I did not have my 4 hrs for compliance and turned it back on. I was only short like 20 minutes and figured I had time and just rested in bed with it on.

Still don't understand not recording the data and it should show a leak if I had taken the mask off during that time I would think. It does not show a leak when there is no data recorded. I had it where I took the mask off accidentally one night and it showed a leak on the data during that night.

Think I will contact my DME if it happened again.

I have never had this problem. I am not sure why it didn't record.

Mr Snuffy wrote:So if my pressure is set at 6, my machine can go up to 20 if needed to get me out of apnea? Why is data stopped? I know it is an auto machine but it is set in CPAP mode.

Your machine is set to have a fixed pressure. In this mode it will not respond with a pressure change. Don't know why it went to 10 and stopped recording, but it sure looks like it turned off. When it started recording again it looks like it ramped, indicating it was off. You said auto on/off is turned off??

Julie wrote:Your pressure went up to 10 (I imagine) because that's where apneas occurred. Your low pressure setting is just a jumping off point, not results.

it shows the machine is in cpap mode.... WHY did it go to 10 and shut off?

lilly747 wrote:

Mr Snuffy wrote:So if my pressure is set at 6, my machine can go up to 20 if needed to get me out of apnea? Why is data stopped? I know it is an auto machine but it is set in CPAP mode.

Your machine is set to have a fixed pressure. In this mode it will not respond with a pressure change. Don't know why it went to 10 and stopped recording, but it sure looks like it turned off. When it started recording again it looks like it ramped, indicating it was off. You said auto on/off is turned off??

That is correct on auto on/off. The machine was on when I got up. I turned it off and notice the short period of recorded time. I turned it back on which shows the ramp and it recorded again for the 20 minutes I needed for compliance.

Julie wrote:Your pressure went up to 10 (I imagine) because that's where apneas occurred. Your low pressure setting is just a jumping off point, not results.

Mr Snuffy is running in straight CPAP mode at 6cm according to the left side bar. So that's not what's going on.

Mr Snuffy wrote:

lilly747 wrote:

Mr Snuffy wrote:So if my pressure is set at 6, my machine can go up to 20 if needed to get me out of apnea? Why is data stopped? I know it is an auto machine but it is set in CPAP mode.

Your machine is set to have a fixed pressure. In this mode it will not respond with a pressure change. Don't know why it went to 10 and stopped recording, but it sure looks like it turned off. When it started recording again it looks like it ramped, indicating it was off. You said auto on/off is turned off??

That is correct on auto on/off. The machine was on when I got up. I turned it off and notice the short period of recorded time. I turned it back on which shows the ramp and it recorded again for the 20 minutes I needed for compliance.

Mr Snuffy,

It's a pain in the butt, but I think you need to bring your machine back to the DME and explain what happened. Have them download a detailed data report that shows all the detailed data, including the wave flow (flow rate data), the pressure data, and the leak data. Have them explain to you why a machine set to 6cm suddenly went to 10cm. This does not make sense, and it is possible that you either have a rare bad machine or that something fried the machine's circuitry and made it go insane. The DME may be able to test it. If it's under warranty, they should be able to replace it.

robysue wrote:
It's a pain in the butt, but I think you need to bring your machine back to the DME and explain what happened. Have them download a detailed data report that shows all the detailed data, including the wave flow (flow rate data), the pressure data, and the leak data. Have them explain to you why a machine set to 6cm suddenly went to 10cm. This does not make sense, and it is possible that you either have a rare bad machine or that something fried the machine's circuitry and made it go insane. The DME may be able to test it. If it's under warranty, they should be able to replace it.

Its less than 30 days old. It has happened before and again wonder if the nights I have awaken not being able to catch my breath were caused by this. Will definitely give DME a call in morning. I am no where near home but they might be able to ship it to me.