Well, lookie here

I laid a golden goose egg!

Yes, I took a nap earlier in the day. I'm sick >.<

Midwest_non_sleeper wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:25 pm

I laid a golden goose egg!

Yes, I took a nap earlier in the day. I'm sick >.<

most excellent!

obligatory- you slept well? woke up feeling good?

also obligatory-yes, newbies, we DO celebrate 0 ahi. but it isn't the goal. the goal is always get the best sleep you can. and that isn'r always down to getting zero ahi.

but still, good work, sir!

zonker wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:12 pm

Midwest_non_sleeper wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:25 pm

I laid a golden goose egg!

Yes, I took a nap earlier in the day. I'm sick >.<

most excellent!


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obligatory- you slept well? woke up feeling good?

also obligatory-yes, newbies, we DO celebrate 0 ahi. but it isn't the goal. the goal is always get the best sleep you can. and that isn'r always down to getting zero ahi.

but still, good work, sir!

That was, quite literally, the first 0 AHI I've seen since I began treatment last June. It is certainly the exception.

Feel good, with the exception of being sick. Slept well, zero wakeups. The small gap at 11PM was getting up for restroom after reading for a bit. Woke up at 5:30 to alarm, jumped right up and got the day started.

Midwest_non_sleeper wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:02 am

That was, quite literally, the first 0 AHI I've seen since I began treatment last June. It is certainly the exception.

Feel good, with the exception of being sick. Slept well, zero wakeups. The small gap at 11PM was getting up for restroom after reading for a bit. Woke up at 5:30 to alarm, jumped right up and got the day started.

well, i've only hit zero once in the 3+ years of cpap therapy. about 9 months in. and i don't really trust that it was real. last week, i hit .11 which i DO regard as real. i had one event all night.

i'm very happy to get under one, because i really DO feel the difference if i get about 1- 1.5 ahi.

anyway, this is about YOU, not me.

again, good work.

It was years before I first saw a 0.0 AHI night that was longer than 2 hours.
Now that I look back on it I probably had some SWJ false positives probably mucking up the AHI.
No different than really now....0.0 is rare if going by the actual number but if I take the time to evaluate what little that does get flagged 95% of it is SWJ false positives. With my rather crappy sleep quality I just shrug my shoulders and chuckle. Not much I can do about it anyway.

I haven't even bothered to look at last night's data. It's not going to be pretty...between the whining dog and the cat wanting loving at 3 AM and my damned back acting up because the weather is changing....I had a crappy night that was totally unrelated to sleep apnea.
For the the sleep apnea treatment has been a walk in the park...it's the other stuff that is so hard to fix and that other stuff makes me feel worse sometimes than the apnea stuff ever did. I would hazard a guess at maybe at least 2 dozen remembered wake ups...which usually means for me another 2 dozen that I don't remember (if I take the time to scroll through the flow rate I can count the arousal breathing segments). At this point I don't normally bother looking...won't change anything anyway and I already know it was a crappy night. I don't need numbers of anything to prove it to me. My body is usually a fairly reliable yardstick. Can't do anything about it now anyway.

Congratulations on the milestone. It is kinda nice to be able to pat ourselves on the back every now and then.

Yep, thanks. I'm assuming I won't see another one of those for awhile, and I'm not chasing them either. I'm just finding what works for me with minor tweaks here and there and rolling with it. The vast majority of nights my AHI is under 1, and that probably includes some SWJ thrown in, so I'm pretty happy with my therapy so far.

I didn't think I would, but apparently I prefer fairly heavy, moist air, so I have the humidifier almost as high as it will go. I'm settling in to 9.5 or 9.6 for preferred low pressure. That's a far cry from where they started me at 5.

According to SH, my compliance is 97% and my yearly AHI is at 1.16. Not too shabby.

I also prefer pretty much maximum humidity. It's what the nose wants and if the nose isn't happy it sure makes me miserable during the day so I try to keep it happy.

And my compliance gets dinged for short hours more than lack of use. I don't always manage to get 4 hours on the machine because of various insomnia issues screwing with my sleep. When in bed...I wear the mask and use the machine but I don't always get 4 hours in bed to be using it so that's why my compliance numbers fall short of 100%.

I got my first perfect game (0.00 AHI) Feb 4, it took a year less a week to get it.

Since then, I've had 8.
It's interesting how volatile our indicators can be. I go about a year without a single 0.00 night, then 6 within a three week period. Or I'll go a week with AHI all under 0.25 and then a week where they are all about 1.

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:01 pm

I also prefer pretty much maximum humidity. It's what the nose wants and if the nose isn't happy it sure makes me miserable during the day so I try to keep it happy.

And my compliance gets dinged for short hours more than lack of use. I don't always manage to get 4 hours on the machine because of various insomnia issues screwing with my sleep. When in bed...I wear the mask and use the machine but I don't always get 4 hours in bed to be using it so that's why my compliance numbers fall short of 100%.

Who sees your "compliance numbers" besides you?

LSAT wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:35 pm

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:01 pm

I also prefer pretty much maximum humidity. It's what the nose wants and if the nose isn't happy it sure makes me miserable during the day so I try to keep it happy.

And my compliance gets dinged for short hours more than lack of use. I don't always manage to get 4 hours on the machine because of various insomnia issues screwing with my sleep. When in bed...I wear the mask and use the machine but I don't always get 4 hours in bed to be using it so that's why my compliance numbers fall short of 100%.

Who sees your "compliance numbers" besides you?

No one at all but me of course. It's a mental thing for me more than anything else. I know I could change the hours used to figure "compliance" and make it look all hunky dory but I just haven't bothered because no one cares and I sure don't care enough to change it which would take all of about 5 seconds.
I wasn't really complaining or anything like that. Just chit chatting about something mainly. Like why compliance % not being 100% might be due to something that simply can't be remedied and no sense worrying about it.
But some people want "perfect" numbers in everything....that's not me though.
I pretty much rarely ever expend any mental brain power energy on anything that can't be remedied somehow. Not worth it.

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:24 pm

LSAT wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:35 pm

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:01 pm

I also prefer pretty much maximum humidity. It's what the nose wants and if the nose isn't happy it sure makes me miserable during the day so I try to keep it happy.

And my compliance gets dinged for short hours more than lack of use. I don't always manage to get 4 hours on the machine because of various insomnia issues screwing with my sleep. When in bed...I wear the mask and use the machine but I don't always get 4 hours in bed to be using it so that's why my compliance numbers fall short of 100%.

Who sees your "compliance numbers" besides you?

No one at all but me of course. It's a mental thing for me more than anything else. I know I could change the hours used to figure "compliance" and make it look all hunky dory but I just haven't bothered because no one cares and I sure don't care enough to change it which would take all of about 5 seconds.
I wasn't really complaining or anything like that. Just chit chatting about something mainly. Like why compliance % not being 100% might be due to something that simply can't be remedied and no sense worrying about it.
But some people want "perfect" numbers in everything....that's not me though.
I pretty much rarely ever expend any mental brain power energy on anything that can't be remedied somehow. Not worth it.

My machine won't be mine until October so I often get my compliance by sitting there reading with it on. Fun to do with the N-20 and glasses. but its better than taking the chance of not meeting their stupid rules. Some nights I sleep just fine others like the last week I barely sleep.

babydinosnoreless wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:00 pm

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:24 pm

LSAT wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:35 pm

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:01 pm

I also prefer pretty much maximum humidity. It's what the nose wants and if the nose isn't happy it sure makes me miserable during the day so I try to keep it happy.

And my compliance gets dinged for short hours more than lack of use. I don't always manage to get 4 hours on the machine because of various insomnia issues screwing with my sleep. When in bed...I wear the mask and use the machine but I don't always get 4 hours in bed to be using it so that's why my compliance numbers fall short of 100%.

Who sees your "compliance numbers" besides you?

No one at all but me of course. It's a mental thing for me more than anything else. I know I could change the hours used to figure "compliance" and make it look all hunky dory but I just haven't bothered because no one cares and I sure don't care enough to change it which would take all of about 5 seconds.
I wasn't really complaining or anything like that. Just chit chatting about something mainly. Like why compliance % not being 100% might be due to something that simply can't be remedied and no sense worrying about it.
But some people want "perfect" numbers in everything....that's not me though.
I pretty much rarely ever expend any mental brain power energy on anything that can't be remedied somehow. Not worth it.

My machine won't be mine until October so I often get my compliance by sitting there reading with it on. Fun to do with the N-20 and glasses. but its better than taking the chance of not meeting their stupid rules. Some nights I sleep just fine others like the last week I barely sleep.

I also read before bed, sometimes for five minutes before I'm out cold, sometimes for up to an hour. Having a teenage daughter and 11 year old son helps me be tired at the end of a long work day, that's for sure.