DonMidwest

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.

I have not had a nap the last few days since my sleep has been so much better.

I will discipline myself to not drink water after 8PM.

I drink one large cup of coffee 90 minutes after I get up. This was a suggestion to not waste the caffeine all at once and to spread it out.

After 13 years it is incredible to get such small apnea scores.

I will continue to wait a while before starting Gaba and/or Ashwagandha Root

When I first started with CPAP 13 years ago, I used the simple nasal mask. Pressure was at 10 all the time and I didn't use a ramp.

I now have to put on the mask, then the neck collar. Then I hook up the hose and it starts immediately I have been using the STOP button the top when I take a break.

From what I read, the CPAP masks seem to drive a lot of people nuts. Even with the collar, it is well worth it for me to get a good night's sleep. Actually, I am used to it and miss it when I don't have it.

I still have to work on going back to sleep after going to the bathroom. My current view is that if I make it to 6 and a half hours of good sleep then it is not so necessary to get more. Many places are saying 7, 8 or 9 hours. What are your thoughts on the length of sleeping?

Will make the adjustments now.

So sorry to hear about your deficiency. I had never heard of it and it is a life threatening condition.

I now understand why you have spent so much time on CPAP and OSCAR so that you can diagnose and recommend changes. With other things going on I have not spent as much time to much better figure out the condition and the readings from the graphs -- enough so in the future I can be able to adjust as needed.

I slept straight through for about 6 and one half hours. Then a break. I think the apnea score went down from over 2 to slightly under 2.

What do the graphs tell you today?