DonMidwest

Thanks. I looked at two more reviews of F40.

There was a time when I had a full face mask, one that went up to the bridge of the nose. It has a foam cushion. For a while it worked great. Then it started leaking and I tightened it so much that it hurt the bridge of my nose.

I am not sure about a nasal only mask because it seems my nasal area gets clogged overnight.

I have my titration study on May 19 so will continue to think about various options.

At this moment it looks like F40 would do the trick. My F30i has a hard plastic piece around the cushion so if I did roll over, the seal could be cut.

This evening: no tape on mouth. Sleep on back most of the night.

I did exercise today: 2 hours at pilates. Usually 1 hr per week but I have 4 per month on my Medicare advantage and had 2 left.

One thing I did learn from the long span with air shut off: over the years I have suspected that the CPAP was not keeping track of time correctly. A couple of times I timed it to see if it came out OK. Well, now I know that the difference is during the time when it is shut down.

I showed the graph to my wife and she said that I was snoring so she had to pound on me in my sleep. Probably my mask was off when I was snoring.

I think I should try no tape tomorrow.

The only change was a new cushion.

I am baffled by last night. I did tape my mouth mostly closed but by morning most of the air was through my mouth Many, many apneas. Blank part with no flow. Don't know what that was.

I sleep most of the night on my back. I think. Only after get up to pee and try to go back to sleep will I move to side.

Hopes dashed that there would be linear progress

I learned how to use the editor for the text.

I may have done what you asked. I used the Event Flags area to select a range on the Flow rate.

I did send you the zoom that you asked for. It doesn't seem to be here so I will send it again.

I either did something wrong, or the system ate the comment.

OK. Found button at top of page.

I messed up last night. The high levels of leakage messed up any of the numbers. I realized after the fact that I had not replaced my cushion! I have 2 new ones and will replace it now.

Even with the high levels of apneas, the 7 and one half hours sleep last night was one of the best in the last few months. With the new mask tonight we should get valid data tomorrow.

I changed range to 10 min, 13 max

On the size of the screen shot. I appreciate how difficult it is to read because even on full screen with my 21" monitor it is not easy to see.

Since we have exchanged so many messages the width is getting smaller and smaller with each response. Even if I go full screen, these are built in size restrictions because we are so deep into responses.

On the image. I followed your instruction of F12 to get it to the Picture folder. But to drag it over here, I had to make the screen smaller because even with one image in Picture, it took up 3" of the screen. If I made this page full screen, the dragging failed. Someone gave me a hint to make this screen smaller so I could see the image and this screen and drag it over.

Since the image size is small, and there are many nested layers bounding the image to a smaller and smaller area, maybe a different way to send you an image would be useful.

Here are two things I just did

I dragged the image into gmail and sent it to myself

I attached the image in gmail and sent it to myself

With both of these one can bring up the image and manipulate it on your computer. That would address the small size.

I would need your email to do this.

And it is good to keep a record of our conversation here. I once started another conversation and I couldn't find it. I worry that I could loose contact with you through some mistake.

I could both post the image in My Apnea for a record, and send it to you by email.

In short on the image size: it might be best to put it in two places. I could drag it here so it would be part of the record. And I could send you the jpeg file (think that is the format) and you could use image/picture tools to resize, zoom, and do various other things.

well, well, well

mixed results. Another step but not the linear improvement that I had hoped for

the mask felt better on my face. The whole experience was smoother.

Today, Tuesday 3/26 going to spend 4 hours in the car and time standing at a Pompeii exhibit in Cinn OH. Was that on my mind?

Anxiety? Blurry eyes? I woke up and misread the screen saying 8 hours elapsed but it was 5+ hours. I got up . Was up for a bit then went back to bed with CPAP and didn't get back to sleep. Got up, ate (I usually eat after 11 am, not 6:30, but, hey, the day starts early for the trip.) Went down to family room and slept for about an hour. Now I am writing this.

I don't know what to make of the night's data.

I am leaving in less than an hour so won't see your reply until early evening.

changed settings: ramp time to AUTO. Ramp start to 7. Start smart ON

Looked up the definitions of: CSR CA OA UA H and RE

Amazing! Shape of wave. Physiology of lungs and throat and other parts of the body's tube, lungs, and brain signaling when to breathe.

Does the medical profession think we are dumb? Thanks to Resmed to record this data.

I will post tomorrow AM and then going off to Cincinnati with granddaughter to see Pompeii exhibit.

There is a lot happening in the area of reversing Alzheimer's disease. One of the early pioneers is Dale Bredesen whose book in 2017 is "The End of Alzheimer's: The first program to prevent and reverse cognitive decline." He has written two books since then. He works in 32 areas rather than a magic bullet of a drug to target something. Toxins, treatment of diabetes because Alzheimer so connected that some call it diabetes type III. Nutrition, exercise, life style change. At the bottom of his pyramid of treatment, the largest area, is sleep. This is why I have spent so much time trying figure it out and why I will be forever grateful to your help.

Starting today is "Discover 50+ Ways to Overcome Memory Loss and Cognitive Decline at the Reverse Alzheimer’s 3.0 Summit!" There are talks which are free each day. Then a new set of talks on remaining days. I went ahead and ordered the entire segment for $69 so I can watch it at my leisure.

https://drtalks.com/reverse-alzheimers-summit/

It is an exciting time for so many health approaches. Biggest problem is lifestyle change. Diet change. Many of these programs are similar because of emphasis on mitochondria.

Again thanks for the help. Now I can see why these folks place so much emphasis on sleep!

I looked at the graphs (actually histograms) provided by Resmed

In Feb, one night had 24 Apnea events! Not sure what criteria is for an apnea event. But most nights greater than 7. And several more at 7.

In Feb, one night had mask seal over 80, and 5 times that month over 70.

I am very upset. The "doctors" could have looked just at this data and known that something was seriously wrong. In the last couple of years I have taken the absence of comments, that I was doing just fine. Actually, according to their standards, I was an ongoing revenue stream so all was well.

I flipped out after the Feb 18 sleep study that showed Stage 3 and REM at 0%. That was the reason I started this connection with you which has led to OSCAR. They responded 0 = 0 They said over and over again the score was 0. That was clear. I was asking what does a score of 0 mean? I sent nasty messages to the My Chart and they even said I could come and in and speak with the head doctor. Since they have always said nothing useful, I did not go in to hear again that 0 = 0.

I am pissed off at the incredibly bad care from the "professionals."