Tec5 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:00 pm
robysue1 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 6:48 pm
Do you think Average Joe might be interested in whether his machine is delivering the pressure it's supposed to deliver?
Wanderlustralia (who may or not be an official voice for SleepHQ) contends that the
AVERAGE CPaPer less interested in whether his AHI is 5 or 6 and more focussed on getting "good" sleep.
I suspect that the
majority of CPaPusers just strap on their mask, follow their doctor's prescription, don't fiddle with settings, and hope for the best quality sleep.
Some CPapers may track their "numbers", but I suspect that the vast majority don't.
Here in the US, a large number of CPAPers never get past the first few months of PAP therapy before they just give up because they are not feeling any better and they find the machine too hard to sleep with. I thought the whole point behind the development of SleepHQ was to give those large numbers of new CPAPers a
useful tool to help them better understand what's going on with their xPAP therapy.
And the very beginning of understanding of what's going on with your xPAP therapy is simply knowing the
prescribed pressure for your machine. Knowing your prescribed xPAP pressure is really no different than knowing the names and dosage of the medications you take.
But I guess you're one of those people who thinks it's ok for a person to not know the names of the medicines they're taking or the doses they are supposed to use.
On the other hand, there are some CPaPers who are very concerned that their AHI numbers are accurate to a 0.1.
I never mentioned AHI in my post about the fact that SleepHQ's pressure graph is highly misleading about a very basic part of xPAP therapy if you are using a PR DreamStation Auto BiPap---namely SleepHQ's inaccurate information about the pressure the machine is actually using during the night to control.
If you want Average Joes to use SleepHQ, then the most basic info that they are likely to know---i.e. their prescribed pressure settings---ought to be reflected accurately in the information that is being used to sell the program to those Average Joes.
There are some CPaPers who want assurance that their machine is delivering what it's supposed to.
Most average CPAPers will be content if the
software they've been told is useful to monitor their therapy accurately shows the machine running at the correct pressure. They can't use SleepHQ to do that if they're using a PR DreamStation BiPAP Auto.
The the "Average Joe" (whatever that may be) is likely represented by the majority that just aren't that focussed on absolutes.
If that's the market that SleepHQ wants to serve, that's their choice. And I suspect that's the lion's share of all CPapers.
Complaining that SleepHQ's pressure graph indicates my pressure never gets higher than about 6.2 when my
minimum IPAP is 7cm is not focusing on "absolutes". It's asking for software intended to be useful for monitoring xPAP therapy to correctly display my machine's pressures and how they vary through the night.
However, some CPapers are focussed on the details, and some may have very good reasons to require a high degree of accuracy. For those, SleepHQ may not be the best aid.
For a PR DreamStation BiPAP Auto user, there is
no accuracy in the SleepHQ pressure graph at all. None. Nada. Zilch. Zero. And as soon as even a casual PAPer discovers such a glaring flaw in the SleepHQ program, there's a really good reason for that casual PAPer to decide that SleepHQ is a scam that can't help them make PAPing any easier.
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