CPAP therapy optimization - a cautionary tale

Chevie wrote:
I could be misunderstanding what you are trying to do. But, many people here worry over past data and even their sleep study. I found this useless worry and useless activity. The only important thing is how you are doing now and are you doing the things necessary to have an excellent CPAP therapy going forward.

I would take a long walk instead of worrying over an old CPAP card.

I understand why you might say that. I like taking walks too but I still want the old card. And here's why:
My old CPAP (the one I replaced two weeks ago now) was clearly failing me big-time. I know this because I've been having nasty morning headaches etc etc for at least six months and all of a sudden, when I started with the new blower, everything changed - no headaches, much more energy, feeling refreshed when I wake up, better concentration all day etc etc. My nightmares even seem to have gone away, for now at least. I want the data on that old Smart Card (relic that it is ....) because only then can I compare all the info on that card with the stuff I'm now downloading daily into SleepyHead from my swank new blower and its SD card. After a couple of days on the new CPAP I also started using my Respironics chinstrap, the one that had been sitting idle in a drawer for many years, so the relative contribution of new blower vs chinstrap will be hard to determine. I had become complacent, satisfied with an AHI of around 5, when I should have realized that my sleep quality was heading SOUTH.

Make sense? Don't worry, I'm not otherwise obsessed with the data on the card. On the contrary, for about 5 years I've hardly bothered even to look at the small amount of data you can scroll through in the little window on top of the old machine. My average AHI was around 5 for much of the time but frankly I'm not all that sure that this is what the old SmartCard will show me.

By the way, can anyone tell me how many days or months or years my spiffy new machine saves the data, and I don't mean just the long term trends (average AHIs, leak, 90% pressures), I mean the daily values in excruciating detail that I can look at until my eyes glaze over. As I recall I only got a week or so of fully granular data off the SmartCard with the old machine (PR REMStar M Series Auto CPAP, purchased 7 years ago). Is it the same now with the PR System One 560 model?

Pneumophile wrote: Is it the same now with the PR System One 560 model?

if you have a 560, you've got the wrong thing listed in your sig.

remstar, meaningless, everything for many years, and models had remstart slapped on it.

"aflex", that's like saying "car, with tires". you can't get a sys 1 auto without it.

"pr system one auto" would be a 550 model. because you don't say "60 series" or simply "pr 560" and skip the rest of the stuff.

hmmm, I'll have to check on that and edit my sig line as necessary. Sheesh I was only trying to copy all the silly verbiage on the blower. Why can't they just use a simple naming convention and stick to it? Anyway it's the recently discontinued blower that was an upgrade from the M Series REMstar Auto-everything blah blah blah that I used to use

jnk... wrote:

wrote:Get AHI as low as possible, but no lower.

lex parsimoniae

No. It's an attempt to create a new idiom.

You can wait to see if it catches on.

Pneumophile wrote:hmmm, I'll have to check on that and edit my sig line as necessary. Sheesh I was only trying to copy all the silly verbiage on the blower. Why can't they just use a simple naming convention and stick to it? Anyway it's the recently discontinued blower that was an upgrade from the M Series REMstar Auto-everything blah blah blah that I used to use

because the marketing wanks at respironics are nuts.

Because the people who should be LISTENING to us still think we are mushrooms;
keeping us in the dark and feeding us compost.

I think I'll leave my sig line up there for a while just to *is* off palerider

palerider wrote:

Pneumophile wrote:hmmm, I'll have to check on that and edit my sig line as necessary. Sheesh I was only trying to copy all the silly verbiage on the blower. Why can't they just use a simple naming convention and stick to it? Anyway it's the recently discontinued blower that was an upgrade from the M Series REMstar Auto-everything blah blah blah that I used to use

because the marketing wanks at respironics are nuts.

10/10

Pneumophile wrote:I think I'll leave my sig line up there for a while just to *is* off palerider

if you don't mind having the wrong machine listed, and possibly getting bad help because of it, why should I care?