Want better AHI? Never wake up!!!!

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spitintheocean
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Re: Want better AHI? Never wake up!!!!

Post by spitintheocean » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:05 pm

apnez wrote:
You won't believe me but my USB link with my machine stopped working this Saturday morning ....... I can't give you my monthly figures but they are not as good as the previous 6 hours.
I hardly know you, why wouldn't I believe you?

I have the same machine; you do realize that your weekly and monthly numbers are available to you on your machine's LCD? You don't need the software to obtain weekly/monthly stats; simply cycle to the reporting schedule on the machine (Review/Results/Efficacy Data). When you down-arrow to the AHI number you'll discover no daily data is available after twelve noon, but if you hit the enter button again, you'll bring up weekly/monthly/six months/annual averages for each category.

It is very easy to confuse the order of which buttons to hit to obtain your current numbers and it is easy enough to double-tap the enter key (instead of the down-arrow) while cycling past leak data and inadvertantly force the unit to start showing weekly or monthly data averages versus daily. At that point the machine would appear to be giving the wide swing in results after only an hour of rest.

Since I'm too cheap to purchase the software I record my efficacy numbers every morning on a pad next to the bed. In my semi-dozy early morning haven't gone for a pee yet state I have sent the machine into weekly/monthly stat mode on a few occasions as I race to record while my bladder protests mightily.

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