New User with questions

ninjatrigg wrote:How do my numbers look? my leaks seem to be going up.

Your numbers look great.
Your Icon reports total leak....total leak is the mask's expected vent rate plus any excess leak.
Your large leak line in the sand to avoid is the 60 L/min mark. That's where the ICON large leak flag starts.
So your leak numbers are quite acceptable. I would concentrate on the average leak number if it were me.
The 95% leak number just means you were AT OR BELOW that number...people tend to forget the or below part and go into panic mode if it's a little high.

Leaks will vary....they will always vary to some extent. It's a war we never truly win.

If the leaks (even small) are waking you up and causing you to fiddle with the mask all night long...then they need to be fixed because they are messing with your sleep quality but not because they are horrible and making things a total waste of time.
Your leak numbers are far from being large enough to cause significant impact on actual therapy.

Pugsy wrote:

ninjatrigg wrote:How do my numbers look? my leaks seem to be going up.

Your numbers look great.
Your Icon reports total leak....total leak is the mask's expected vent rate plus any excess leak.
Your large leak line in the sand to avoid is the 60 L/min mark. That's where the ICON large leak flag starts.
So your leak numbers are quite acceptable. I would concentrate on the average leak number if it were me.
The 95% leak number just means you were AT OR BELOW that number...people tend to forget the or below part and go into panic mode if it's a little high.

Leaks will vary....they will always vary to some extent. It's a war we never truly win.

If the leaks (even small) are waking you up and causing you to fiddle with the mask all night long...then they need to be fixed because they are messing with your sleep quality but not because they are horrible and making things a total waste of time.
Your leak numbers are far from being large enough to cause significant impact on actual therapy.

Thanks for your insight. I've been doing this for a year already and I still don't really know what the numbers should be, but my doctor told me that my sleep apnea was under control and I didnt need to see him unless I had problems. Problem is, im still tired as hell. Still an uphill battle for me.

Actually I might have read it wrong. It looks like my leaks were going down. I was reading left to right .

So the 95% leak means that you have reached that number but it didn't stay at that number. I think I get it.

I'm not really waking up at night, but my mask is very tight when I wake up, like my whole head is swollen or I am subconsciously tightening it in my sleep.

I woke up to my cat messing with my hose this morning. Then I get all paranoid about pinholes in the hose.