4 months use and AHIs are rising - thoughts?

mrcrayola · Post by **mrcrayola** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:51 am

Okay, I've been CPAPing since November and a daily AHI under 5 is still a rarity for me. The SleepyHead welcome page characterizes my readings somewhere in the range of 'not very good' to 'horrible!'

It just occurred to me - what is the average of the population in general? I imagine folks who do not suffer from sleep apnea likely still experience 'events,' although perhaps not OAs. Five or fewer 'events' per hour would be groovy, but experience (and Pugsy) suggests that a variety of activities can be interpreted and recorded by the machine as an 'event' that, in reality, have no bearing on one's health or sleep quality.

Thoughts?

Thx

MC

TedVPAP · Post by **TedVPAP** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:04 pm

Post charts.

kteague · Post by **kteague** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:35 pm

Those on here who have a good grasp of the data can look at it and and maybe see some clues about real vs false events. Sometimes things are obvious, other times not so much. In general, that amount of wake time you have with the mask on can affect reporting of events. Are many of your events reported during known wake times? For me, if I mask up then end up in a conversation, my report will show an ugly cluster of events at the start of the night. When the total AHI isn't satifactory and tweaking the settings hasn't brought the AHI down, can't help but wonder about wake time. Hopefully posting your data as requested will lead you to more insight.

mrcrayola · Post by **mrcrayola** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:12 pm

Note how I am having a pretty good night index-wise. I get up to use the bathroom and, thereafter, all "hell" breaks loose.

TedVPAP · Post by **TedVPAP** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:52 pm

Very hard to read. Too many unnecessary charts. Best to just show "Event Flags", "Flow Rate", "Pressure", "Leak Rate".

Most likely you were awake during the cluster since it was just after your awakening. If so, they are not real.

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 2:09 pm

What are your pressure settings?

mrcrayola · Post by **mrcrayola** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:13 pm

Ramp starts at 4. Top pressure is 12.5.

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:37 pm

Ramp is not the same thing as pressure settings... most of us in fact turn off the ramp feature within a week of getting machnes. Pressure settings are entered according to prescriptions so if your min. pressure is set at 4, you're not getting adequately treated (if you can even manage to inhale at that pressure) and I'd bump that to 6 or 7 and the max. setting (high one) to 15 or 20 for now and see how things go for a few nights.

Ramping is for those whose min. (low) scripted settings are quite high and don't like to start off with strong 'blasts' of air at bedtime, so enable the ramp feature to work up to the min. pressure (e.g. 10) over a few minutes... and you'd set the time of the transition... then the ramp would stop once that pressure is reached. But as 4 is the machine default low for most machines, there's no point in using the ramp at all as it's already 'there' to begin with and would only delay (by whatever time you specify) your getting any therapy for that period of time... pointless at that setting.

4 months use and AHIs are rising - thoughts?

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