Mask Change and Enocore Pro Printout

jrfoster · Post by **jrfoster** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:17 pm

Goofproof wrote:If you are in the CPAP mode you spent all your minutes at the CPAP pressure. Why would it make a report on something it was already telling you? If you are treated at 8 cm on CPAP for one hour, you would have used CPAP at 8 cm for 60 minutes. Jim

Looking at the graph with the vertical lines on it shows the OA's and H's, but does each vertical line represent 1 apnea and 1 hypopnea? What about the darker bar, is that 5 events or one event lasting longer? This mornings report had 24 vertical lines for the OA. 5 during the first hour, 3 the 2nd hour etc and 6 in the 4th hour.....yet the Encore Pro Analyzer said I had 42 obstructive apneas. I don't see them on the sleep therapy details very clearly. It (the Analyzer )also said that the average apnea duration was 19.3 seconds and that I spent 13.5 minutes in apnea. That's information that is helpful to know.

Jeff

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:26 pm

[quote="jrfoster It (the Analyzer )also said that the average apnea duration was 19.3 seconds and that I spent 13.5 minutes in apnea. That's information that is helpful to know.

Jeff [/quote]

That 13.5 minutes is what would bother me, that's 13.5 minutes of not breathing.

Most of the time I spent 12 sec in apnea and they are 12 sec long. One time in the last two months I went to 70 sec, that was a very bad night Jim

jrfoster · Post by **jrfoster** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:38 pm

Goofproof wrote:That 13.5 minutes is what would bother me, that's 13.5 minutes of not breathing.

Most of the time I spent 12 sec in apnea and they are 12 sec long. One time in the last two months I went to 70 sec, that was a very bad night Jim

Tell me about it! I am trying everything I can to bring it down. I am inching up my pressure 1 cm at a time to see if that helps. Today I got a new profile lite mask from my DME that is just a half size bigger than the one I had in my sleep study. Hopefully this one won't bruise the bridge of my nose so bad.

Also staying with the nasal mask versus my full face mask (FP 431) seems to lower my AHI drastically.

Jeff

jrfoster · Post by **jrfoster** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:37 am

Last night was much better! With the new mask my AHI for the night was 2.8, with only 21 total events, 15 of which were apneas. Total time in Apnea last night was 4 minutes with a duration of 16 seconds.

Now I undestand why Encore Pro is not giving me the graph in CPAP mode with only one pressure. I should have thought of that!

Jeff in TN

bdp522 · Post by **bdp522** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:22 pm

Don't forget, you need more than 1 nights data. Give it a few nights (a week is great) then look at all the data.

Brenda

jrfoster · Post by **jrfoster** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:48 pm

bdp522 wrote:Don't forget, you need more than 1 nights data. Give it a few nights (a week is great) then look at all the data.

Brenda

That is probably true but when you first get the software it is like Christmas and you can hardly wait to get up and open the gifts!!

Jeff

bdp522 · Post by **bdp522** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:51 pm

I know, I checked mine every day too. Just wait till you have 1 weeks worth before making any changes.

Brenda