Finally leaks fixed.

Well this may give you a chuckle, for years I've had mask leaks but I sleep well and they don't bother me. I replaced my Airsense 10 autoset earlier this year and it was set up when I received it so just plugged it in and business as usual. Usual being a mask leak sad/angry red face looking at me from my cpap in the morning.

Now to the funny part, one of you posted instructions on how to go to the clinical screen, sorry but I can't remember who nor can I find that post again, so being nosey I went to that screen and found the 'autoset' line. I clicked on it and found out that 'autoset' was turned off so I turned it on and what a difference it made. Next morning no red face but a smiley one and the same for several mornings now. My 'My score' went from the 80's up to the 90's and even a 100. My mask score went from adjust to good. If only I'd have known this years ago I could have made sure my old Airsense was turned on as now I don't think it was.

It may sound like I'm bragging a little which I guess I am but it's thanks to the poster who posted the clinical screen instructions so thanks .

It would be good for you to load up oscar, and see what the change you made actually did, and why things are better.

palerider wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:13 am

It would be good for you to load up oscar, and see what the change you made actually did, and why things are better.

To tell the truth I'm not very computer literate, I have 'My air' and that's enough statistics for me right now but will see about oscar. The only change I made was turning on the autoset which I think regulates pressure as I need it.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Without knowing what your other settings might have been it's pretty much impossible to know why just changing to auto mode has resolved your leak issue.
It doesn't make logical sense though unless you were using a much higher pressure in the other mode and never got a good seal and with auto mode your pressures aren't going to high and thus less chance of pressures causing leaks.

Just changing to auto mode though.....not likely to be the miracle leak fix for most people. There has to be something behind it that was the root cause.

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:55 am

Without knowing what your other settings might have been it's pretty much impossible to know why just changing to auto mode has resolved your leak issue.
It doesn't make logical sense though unless you were using a much higher pressure in the other mode and never got a good seal and with auto mode your pressures aren't going to high and thus less chance of pressures causing leaks.

Just changing to auto mode though.....not likely to be the miracle leak fix for most people. There has to be something behind it that was the root cause.

My pressure is set at 15 but now it seems like it goes lower than that. Would oscar tell me what the pressure was during the night ?

Yes, OSCAR will give more details as to what the settings are and what the pressure is actually doing along with what it did in the past. You will need a SD card in the computer though to get the details and some sort of SD card reader on your computer.

You can see some examples of what you can see here.

viewtopic/t158560/How-to-post-images-for-review.html

OSCAR https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/
http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.ph ... stallation
http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.ph ... rpretation

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:34 am

Yes, OSCAR will give more details as to what the settings are and what the pressure is actually doing along with what it did in the past. You will need a SD card in the computer though to get the details and some sort of SD card reader on your computer.

You can see some examples of what you can see here.

viewtopic/t158560/How-to-post-images-for-review.html

OSCAR https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/
http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.ph ... stallation
http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.ph ... rpretation

Thanks for the info.

Hi again, just a little update. Have not installed OSCAR yet but did go back into clinical settings again and found the high pressure was 20 and low was set at 2. I did wake up a couple of times thinking my machine had stopped and was unusually tired in the afternoon so am attributing this to the low pressure. I turned the low pressure up to 15 as was the original setting and now sleep well and awake all day and no red angry face on the machine.

Hmmm... 15 is very high for a low pressure, especially if you want to avoid e.g. aerophagia, never mind centrals... You really, really need to do Oscar and we'll help with any issues - just please stick to this thread.

Julie wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 02, 2021 4:40 pm

Hmmm... 15 is very high for a low pressure, especially if you want to avoid e.g. aerophagia, never mind centrals... You really, really need to do Oscar and we'll help with any issues - just please stick to this thread.

Thanks, I'm not computer savvy so will have to study up on OSCAR but how's this for a theory, my airsens 10 doesn't have a card in it but if I put the one from my old airsense in it will it record new data and can I then put the card in my lap top and read it ?

Please don't laugh as this seems perfectly logical to me although I'm probably way off track.

I hope someone more knowledgable will answer because I don't know if eg. the old info will be overwritten (and how you'd feel about it), or whether the new info will be OK, etc etc... but others here can tell you, but don't be afraid to do Oscar - we can help and it will really help you to go forward. And no one will laugh - you're far from the first to have problems!

Albion - If I can do OSCAR (which I did), anyone can do it.
1. Download the OSCAR software onto your computer.
2. When you wake up in the morning, remove the SD card from the PAP machine and put the card into your computer. You can ignore the part of the OSCAR instructions about the SD card needing to be "locked" as that instruction pertains to older machines.
3. Open the OSCAR program on your computer and go to to the Welcome screen. Click on the "CPAP Importer" and your data will be read from the card. Then click on "Daily View" to see the results.
4. Remove the SC card from the computer, and put it back into the PAP machine. If you forget this last step, the next night's data will not recorded onto the SC card. I have forgotten this, and it is frustrating.

OSCAR is important. Do not fear the technology. It is a tool to help you and the experts here.

The new AirSense 10 machine probably won't like having another machines data on the card it uses and will likely prompt you to erase the card. I would go ahead and erase it anyway and use it. Just make sure the data is stored in OSCAR before you erase it.

Your new machine....can't have a low setting of 2 because no ResMed machine will go below 4 cm unless it's the Bilevel model in fixed mode and even then the lowest is 3 cm. So that 2 you saw....had to be from something else. Probably EPR setting.

You don't need to install OSCAR again to have the new machine data in it. OSCAR won't care if there is more than one machine's data under one profile.
So all you have to do is erase the old SD card, put it in the new machine, and after using it during the night you will have the normal graphs when you download to OSCAR. No need to do anything special with OSCAR if you already have it installed.
For the nights of use before the SD card was inserted you will only have summary data numbers. The SD card must be in the machine during the night to get the detailed data graphs.

Thanks to all for your help and encouragement. I'll probably just get a new card and download OSCAR. Or try to.