Resmed Airsense 10 MyAir report

I have been on cpap with supplemental oxygen for 3 weeks now. My cpap pressure setting is 9 and the oxygen flow is set at 3 lpm. I am using the Resmed Airsense 10.

I have been checking my results on the MyAir website and the "score" I get is always in the high 90s, and the "events" per hour is usually below 1 with the highest number being 2.5 (from last night). I believe these scores are not at all accurate, though and are too low.

My doctor ordered an overnight home oximetry test earlier this week at a lower oxygen setting of 2 lpm instead of the usual 3 lpm. It showed that my oxygen saturation went down to 79% during the night, yet my "score"mon MyAir were fantastic! The overall score was 98 and the "events" per hour were at about .3.

Last night was a rough night for me and the events per hour measured was 2.5, which is the highest it has been but not high enough to be a problem. However, I feel lousy today. Extreme fatigue and very foggy thinking. I also felt bad after this weeks oximetry test but not as bad as today.

Has anyone else experienced such inaccurate measures from the Resmed Airsense?

mstrick96 wrote: have been checking my results on the MyAir website and the "score" I get is always in the high 90s, and the "events" per hour is usually below 1 with the highest number being 2.5 (from last night). I believe these scores are not at all accurate, though and are too low.... It showed that my oxygen saturation went down to 79% during the night, yet my "score"mon MyAir were fantastic! The overall score was 98 and the "events" per hour were at about .3. ...Has anyone else experienced such inaccurate measures from the Resmed Airsense?

myair is a horrifically dumbed down view of what happened, and has nothing at all to do with your o2 saturation.

it's for the 'oh, look what i did, let me post it on facebook' crowd, not the people that want to improve their therapy.

quit bothering with it, and get sleepyhead.

Hi Mstrick96,
I am new here too but wanted to share a few things we have in common. I use the same machine as you. I have the same pressure setting as you. I have only been on CPAP for a short time, like you. I do NOT use oxygen but do look at the My Air Report. Like you I wondered how accurate the numbers were on My Air because they seem so basic, so I downloaded the Sleepy Head software for my computer. It is available on the forum, I think. Not sure where I found it but I did a search on Google and downloaded it.

My experience is that the AHI numbers that are recorded in My Air are accurate. Sleepy Head gives just about the same number, however, there are many more details available by looking at SH. Those additional details are very useful and a bit overwhelming at the same time. After a few days of looking at the numbers and graphs in SH, I kinda got the hang of what is very important and what is above my head. There is a walk through in the forum "stickys" that I came across that will give much information on SH data. Just read the basic stuff on AHI, Large Leaks, Event Flags, Flow Rate. You can monkey with the graphs and drag them around so you only see the major items you are interested in. Leave the other stuff for another day or ask the veterans here for help on those if you are interested.

Here is the thing with My Air: it is extremely basic. The scores that they "award" are based on 4 criteria: compliance 70%, mask fit 20%, hypopneas 5%, and how many times you took your mask off 5%. The first week I got a silver badge award! That made me laugh! If you use your machine 7 hours you get 70%. If the mask fits reasonably well you ace that one too. So it is not hard to get in the 90's each night if you wore your mask and only took it off once or twice to go to the bathroom and came right back. It is sort of silly and a bit childlike but I guess the "user friendly" department at Resmed had to do something to help the average newbie understand what was happening and how important it is to use your machine each night. I didn't even look at My Air today, only SH.

I have had some rough nights, as well, and still had an 89, 92, 95 on the My Air report. My problem was highlighted by SH, though, as being several large leaks throughout the night even though my AHI was below 5. If I had to guess, there is more going on with you that needs evaluation with a better tool than My Air. I knew I had bad nights because I felt awful the next day, (like you) I just did not know how to pinpoint what the problem was though until looking at SH and reading forum posts on leaks and finally posting a thread for suggestions from the group. Every day things get a bit better for me and I learn a bit more about CPAP.

It takes time but you can feel better than you do now, I am certain of that! Best wishes!

I also had these kinds of terrible, impossible, bad desaturations. So I went on 5lpm of oxygen instead of 2 and klonopin with a high asv setting. I don't know why, I do have asthma and can't exhale. the klonopin is supposed to treat centrals and lower CAI

Maybe it's an overdose

palerider wrote:

mstrick96 wrote: have been checking my results on the MyAir website and the "score" I get is always in the high 90s, and the "events" per hour is usually below 1 with the highest number being 2.5 (from last night). I believe these scores are not at all accurate, though and are too low.... It showed that my oxygen saturation went down to 79% during the night, yet my "score"mon MyAir were fantastic! The overall score was 98 and the "events" per hour were at about .3. ...Has anyone else experienced such inaccurate measures from the Resmed Airsense?

myair is a horrifically dumbed down view of what happened, and has nothing at all to do with your o2 saturation.

it's for the 'oh, look what i did, let me post it on facebook' crowd, not the people that want to improve their therapy.

quit bothering with it, and get sleepyhead.

MyAir is a useful tool for beginners, and helps with compliance for those who might be resistant. I use it during the week when I'm too busy to deal with Sleepyhead (generally only look at that once a week on the weekend), just to keep an eye on AHI and leak rates. The AHI and leak data is accurate and matches what comes up on Sleepyhead, just in a very non-technical format.

MyAis is also used by the DME and/or doctor to verify usage or non-usage so they can be payed by your insurance. After I was on my machine for a month, I got a call from the DME wanting to know why I wasn't using my bipap. It turned out my machine would not transmit information. They swapped machines out and now they're happy because my insurance is paying them.

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garagelogician wrote:MyAir is a useful tool for beginners, and helps with compliance for those who might be resistant. .

perhaps, for those that can't look at the machine.

Okie bipap wrote:MyAis is also used by the DME and/or doctor

er, no, they don't use myair, they use a wholly different product that gives them full access to all the data uploaded.