Help me decipher sleepyhead reading

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Ruinednose
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Help me decipher sleepyhead reading

Post by Ruinednose » Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:01 pm

I just got sleepy head and my first at home reading with my pe system one bipap auto

Here it is

aHI 3.0
Hypopnea 0.40
Obstructive 0.10
Clear airway 2.50
RERA 0.20
Flow limit 0.10
Vsnore 0.00
PB/CSR 0.81
Under the events here is what I said

Clear airway 25 events
Flow limit. 1 event
Hypopnea 4 events
Obstructive 1 event
Periodic breathing 2events
Pressure pulse 154 event
Rera 2 events
Vibratory snore 4 events


My iPap is 8 and epap is 6
However 95% epap is 6
And 95% iPap is 9.90



Please help me out as far as worrying about any of those numbers

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Pugsy
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Re: Help me decipher sleepyhead reading

Post by Pugsy » Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:47 pm

What was the average leak number?
How many hours of sleep? Was the sleep good sound sleep or did you have some time with the mask and machine on and were awake?
I don't see anything in the what you posted above that I would worry about.
Seeing the detailed graph would help use get a little better idea of the overall pattern to the events.
Was there something that worried you or you did not understand?

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Re: Help me decipher sleepyhead reading

Post by Ruinednose » Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:53 pm

Slept 10 hours woke up 4 times no longer then 5 mins each awakening

Average total leaks 20.79
95% total leaks. 30.00

Is that high? I woke up few times with mouth open and dry

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Re: Help me decipher sleepyhead reading

Post by Pugsy » Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:11 pm

No, not high at all.
95% numbers just mean that for 95% of the night you were at OR below that number. People tend to forget the "or below" part and get all panicky if it is a bit elevated...which yours isn't anyway. Large leak territory for your machine and mask at your pressure is going to be somewhere between 80 and 90 L/min.

It takes very little mouth breathing to dry out the mouth and if you were doing any mouth breathing I bet it wasn't for very long or very much.
I know that sometimes I have woke up with horribly dry mouth and I go look at the leak line and sometimes there isn't even a blip on it or if there is then it's maybe for 5 or 10 minutes up near large leak territory but I rarely even go into large leak territory. Since it rarely wakes me up...I shrug my shoulders and move on. Not worth worrying about.

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