DonMidwest

Unplanned experiment with a good outcome!

I forgot to put on the collar and guess what, I was awarded AHI of 19!!! When I went to the bathroom and saw 26 or so, I realized that I didn't have the collar on. I left it off for the rest of the night.

So with adjusted pressure settings, starting pressure, and all the other things you suggested, without the collar I failed. So important to lean this.

There are so many variables that a solid result like this is delicious. Wear collar from now on!!!

I agree that it looks like soft collar dislodged. Now when I go to the bathroom, I make sure mask and collar are in the right places.

Another good night. Maybe I don't have to send every day.

It looks like the bad stuff happened just before I got out of bed. I recall trying to sleep on my side I may have disturbed the mask.

Did a lot of running around today to get a back up camera installed. All Best Buy calls go to India and when I started I didn't know what I was doing so had to cancel order, more runaround from India, posted the credit card, sent an alert to credit card company because it is a change from India, got caught in the middle of IT - - so finally drove over to the store and it was necessary to talk to the technician because some special wiring required.

Confession: I have many times said that I was going to exercise. So far, I have failed to follow though. Today.

And also include the full evening. Without OSCAR I would have not have known the effect of my actions in the last few minutes because 2.98 in itself is a very good reading.

Another great night! Some little things.

I have not washed the cushion for 13 days. How often should it be washed?

Heater set at 6 and I have 1/4 of water left in the morning

I looked at some statistics on average pressure

week 10.32 30 days 10.80 6 mo. 11.29 1 year 11.63

And as you well know, the 6 months and 1 year are not valid because mask seal was terrible.

The last 2 nights I have had terrible food. The standard American diet. Do things like diet influence sleep that quickly?

Only today am I going to begin exercise again. The accident threw me out of practice and I have just not done it.

Well, excellent but could be better, I suspect. At the bottom of the left side material is a yellow area 5 hr 40 min and a blue area 2 hr 44 min.

When I did go the bathroom the AHI was around 1.6

Any insights looking at the graphs? Any suggestions about changes? I continued to take GABA but not sure if any influence.

Another great night! Machine settings not changed.

Here are the other changes of note.

Our local opera company is putting on a totally new version of Mozart's "The Magic Flute." My wife has been an opera fan for years and in the beginning she had to drag me to concerts. To get ready for "The Magic Flute" in our local opera company in Columbus, OH, she checked out dvd of earlier versions and so far we have watched 2 in order for me to get a sense of the story.

Operas are often restaged moving from a time and a story when first performed to another time and place and sometimes story but original words sung. Actually what Operas do is to take one to a different time and place with the story, the drama and music and of course, singing. Sometimes operas underdo radical change, not only of time and place but rewriting the words of the songs requiring note by note fidelity to the original score. When they change the words or the language, they keep the music the same which means that the singing vocalizations is also congruent with the score, so they have to go through vowel by vowel and assure they remain the same.

This is related to the sleep report because I fell asleep watching the movie for between 30 and 40 minutes. That was shortly before I went to bed. I have not taken naps the last 5 days.

The other change last night was taking the supplement gaba before bedtime.

Victory! AHI 0,87 At the bottom of the left hand column, in yellow, is 6 hr. 15m . I think that is the time I was asleep. I woke up about that time to go to the bathroom, returned to bed but didn't sleep.

I can't thank you enough.

How many people have you guided through the maze to CPAP success? Surely, I was not the first.

The other day I mentioned the importance of dealing with a common issue to many diseases, metabolism, and this morning an article arrived about one of the conditions that will be the cause of our death. I am sending this because the supplement, GABA, is mentioned and I am just starting to take it now that the CPAP data looks solid, and CPAP scores are excellent.

"Alzheimer's Is Now a Leading Cause of Death Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola April 06, 2024" https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/06/alzheimers-death-rate.aspx?

I am going to try min 10 cm and max 11 cm for a while to see how it works.

After a while I will try Gaba and some other things but I don't think that sleep can get any better.

You suggested humidity at 4. Now that I am not leaking there is very little water used. Cranked it up to 5 and still half full. Tonight I will turn it up to 6.

I was able to see in the data that I had apneas during the ramp so I understand why you start me at 9 with no ramp

Another good night. I went to bathroom but didn't put mask back on so a blank period.

Watching some videos on how to read the graphs and the definitions of the terms CSR, OA, H, etc has been very helpful. Then a long video on Central Sleep Apnea by an MD. I bought an excellent medical reference book "Elements of Pathophysiology" which is a book for nurses. I am going to read the pages on breathing and ventilation. The book is available from Thrift Books for a few dollars and they pay for shipping. I bought it used a couple of years ago at the early stages of Health Activism and paid about $70 for a used volume. An older volume would still be good. When I was going all out I bought "Handbook of Internal Medicine" which comes in at 2,000 pages. Only looked at it a little bit. Might do that now as well.

I never considered this. Since diagnosis with sleep apnea I had a surgery to replace a unitary sphincter, two colonoscopy's and cataracts. Since I probably had sleep apnea before it was diagnosed, I had a surgical removal of the prostate. The issue of sleep apnea never came up. And, the sleep doctors will hand out Provigil like it is candy. Rather than deal with sleep, they provide drugs to keep you awake. Have not taken it for a few years now but could get this narcotic at the drop of the hat.