High Leak matches Hypopnea

Hypopnea event during a high leak, could be a false positive? And if I weeded out the events matched to high leaks, my AHI would be better?

Copy/paste this on your last post and then delete this. We can't go chasing all over to see what's what.

Eliminating one hyponea isn't going to change the AHI all that much...if at all.

From the looks of your flow rate....I don't even think you were asleep when that hyponea was flagged and in that case it doesn't count anyway.

Julie wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:50 pm

Copy/paste this on your last post and then delete this. We can't go chasing all over to see what's what.

Once someone posts after someone's initial post the person who posted loses the delete button.
So when you posted your reply the poster can no longer delete anything.
Just like you lost your delete button when I posted after you did.

People can edit their posts after someone replies but the delete button is only available the most recent poster in a thread.

Again...I could move this topic to his other thread but I don't know that this information would be all that helpful in that other thread except to keep all his questions in one thread....which of course does make it easier for us.

To the OP.....
When you make multiple different threads about different topics it actually causes the forum members more work trying to answer your questions because we have to try to sort through what else you might have been told in other threads. We have to go searching your past threads....more work for us and to be honest work that most forum members really don't want to do.
It would be best to keep any and all questions in your one thread that I moved the other thread to even if they seem to be related to a different topic. We don't want to waste our time repeating something that someone else may have already told you.
We don't like to make extra work for ourselves.

It happens a lot with newbies...they get multiple questions about stuff all over the place and think that the new question isn't related to original thread ...and maybe it isn't but it's just easier if all your stuff (for right now anyway) is in one thread.
Also makes it easier for you to follow...one thread instead of several different threads.

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 13, 2021 1:07 pm

Once someone posts after someone's initial post the person who posted loses the delete button.
So when you posted your reply the poster can no longer delete anything.
Just like you lost your delete button when I posted after you did.

who's on first?



i understood what you said but it sure made for a cumbersome paragraph.

Pugsy - you need to give a postgrad course in all this for tech dopes like myself - I would have deleted mine too, but I guess the order was backwards.

Julie wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 13, 2021 2:15 pm

Pugsy - you need to give a postgrad course in all this for tech dopes like myself - I would have deleted mine too, but I guess the order was backwards.

Yep...entire threads can be deleted by the poster(s) but it involves everyone deleting their own post when it's their turn and their post is the last one on the list of posts. Each individual post deletion will eventually make the first post the last and only post and at that time the author will have the delete button available.
Gotta work backwards though and it means everyone who posted has to do their share.


Or get me to hit the main delete thread button.....

I actually prefer each person to delete their posts rather than my censoring an entire thread with multiple users posting. I can do it easily enough but just hate removing posts unless it is something critical which obviously this doesn't qualify.
It's why I often will just lock a thread when the pissing contests have just got out of hand and the thread is just a crap thread.
I leave it and the ugly but lock it so no more ugly will be added. It will quickly fade away once it is locked.

Instead of "weeding out" individual events that *may* possibly attributed to high leaks, you should be concentrating on reducing high leaks.

Focusing on individual events is an effort in futility.

On Reddit, if I'm the OP, and I add an offshoot question to the thread, I get criticized. Deviate past one question, you need a new posting. Easier for the mods? I was thinking that when there is a mask leak, the pressures are off, or completely wrong. And that maybe there could be an option on OSCAR to ignore any events during a mask leak.

paxnn wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 13, 2021 3:20 pm

On Reddit, if I'm the OP, and I add an offshoot question to the thread, I get criticized. Deviate past one question, you need a new posting. Easier for the mods?

The format here is different from Reddit is all I can tell you and the way we prefer it....it's the general consensus of the members here.
So all I can tell you is that I am not on Reddit...and they get to prefer their ways of doing things and we get to prefer our ways of doing things here. Since pretty much all your questions come under the cpap/therapy/machine/results general heading then I don't have a problem if all the different questions are lumped in one thread ....at least for right now while you understandably will have a lot of different questions.

Now maybe in 6 months if you have a different specific question and we don't want to bother with a big thread to try to sort through...then start a new thread.
But for now it is easier for us if you keep all your thoughts in one thread.

It isn't a critical issue to me though. I don't get all upset and slap hands when someone does a half a dozen different threads....but it apparently annoys a lot of other people a lot so I try to keep things running smoothly whenever I can.
I usually explain why we like to keep things in one thread whenever possible and then the person posting can decide what they want to do. I know the people here though....they won't take the time to go read your other posts to get a better understanding where you are coming from. Heck, a lot of the time they don't even read all the posts in a thread or even one post thoroughly.

Now your thread I moved and combined....it had information in it that actually answered some questions that were asked in the first thread. Again...having those threads combined saved time and work for people responding to you.

paxnn wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 13, 2021 3:20 pm

On Reddit, if I'm the OP, and I add an offshoot question to the thread, I get criticized. Deviate past one question, you need a new posting. Easier for the mods? I was thinking that when there is a mask leak, the pressures are off, or completely wrong. And that maybe there could be an option on OSCAR to ignore any events during a mask leak.

This isn't Reddit.

Here, especially when one is asking therapy oriented questions, it is of huge benefit for everyone to have potentially related information readily available. This way helpers don't have to search through multiple topics to get important information or what''s been tried before.

It's not an "Easier for the mods" thing.

Just because there is a mask leak it doesn't mean th pressure is off. Modern day *pap devices maintain expected pressures during leaks. And exactly much leak is acceptable before OSCAR doesn't report them?

Historically the maintainers of OSCAR do not want to massage any of the data. It reports what the machine flags.

Julie wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 13, 2021 2:15 pm

Pugsy - you need to give a postgrad course in all this for tech dopes like myself - I would have deleted mine too, but I guess the order was backwards.

what i've done in the past is go back to my post and edit down to just a period in there.

if i feel like it, i also type i <post removed by zonker> or something like that.

in the end, i don't think it makes that much difference really.