Temporarily using the ResMed AutoSet Advantage with pressure range of 4-20.
The following are the readings for a couple of weeks.
Sure could use your assistance translating this into English. (Press 1)
I have seen the definitions but don't quite understand.
BOTTOM LINE, is the following good bad or what??

Pressure   LeakL/S   AHI   AI     HI
10.6          0.36        3.5    0.1   3.4
10.6          0.24        4.0    0.1   3.9
10.8          0.22        6.2    0.1   6.1
10.8          0.22        4.6    0.6   4
10             0.36        4.3    0.1   4.2
11             0.32        4.1    0      4.1
11.2          0.24        5       0.3   4.7
10.6          0.22         2.8   0.2    2.6
10.8          0.36         4.2   0.2    4
11             0.36         4.2   0.6    3.6
Using ResMed Mirage Activa Mask.
Your commentswill be appreciated.
Thanks.


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I don't have an auto machine, but from what I can see, those numbers are pretty good.
Your pressures were pretty darn steady, at around a pressure of 11, between 10 and 11.  
Apnea is defined as AHI of over 5, and you had only one instance of over 5.  
AHI is apnea/hypopnea index (how many of both you experienced in an hour).  The AI is the apnea index part, the HI is the hypopnea index part.
Things must be working well because your pressures are consistent.  
Are you keeping the auto?  Or is this to try and titrate you?
If you go back to using cpap, I'm guessing the 10 or 11 will be used.  
I don't know much about leak rates, but I suspect those rates are pretty low, from what I recall.  
Seems like the Activa is working for you!
Are you sleeping well?  Getting any relief of symptoms?


Linda


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The pressures and leak rates are the 95th percentile of the night spent at OR BELOW that level.

My guess is that your straight CPAP would be set at 10 to 10.6 cms w/an EPR of 2 or even 3. The software would also include the median and the highest pressures and leaks during the night and that would offer more information on where the pressure would be set as well as the amount of EPR.

These CPAPs are quite capable of increasing the pressure by close to 1 cm above the set pressure when needed during the night. Generally a straight CPAP is set at or very close to the highest pressure needed to stop or prevent an apnea event and then the EPR is set to allow the patient to spend the majority of the night at a lower pressure only increasing as necessary. The Resmeds EPR settings equal 1 cm so a set pressure of 10 cms straight CPAP w/the EPR set at 3 would be similar to an autoPAP set w/a range of 7 cms to 11 cms. With EPR set a 2 it would be similar to an auto pressure range of 8 to 11 and set at 1 a range of 9 to 11.


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I had a regular CPAP with a pressure setting of 11. What prompted the trial of the auto was and still is my, very active dreams. It was thought the pressure might have had some bearing on this, but alas it does not appear so. The wife usually wakes me up a couple of time a night when I get thrashing around. She says I talk a lot in my sleep also. Thank goodness we have been married 59 years. Had this sleep talking happened early on in our marriage I might have cause for concern. There isn't a night that I have slept without dreaming .
We don't go to bed till around 1 or so, being retired. Usuall wake up 6 to 8 and maybe take the mask off to get little rest. I know this isn't good but d---.
I have noticed that the Auto is 50 to 75 % quieter and does not cause all the air in my mouth as did the S8 Elite. Another week and then a reading of the results (for a month) and visit with the Dr. for his analysis.
Thanks for both of your replies.


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I'd be willing to bet that you don't need a pressure of 11 cms on a straight CPAP then. More than likely a setting of 10 cms might be more the pressure you can use. Or ... it may be that you just DO BETTER on an autoPAP and that you should be switched over to an auto.

Also, I've been under the impression that most of our dreaming is done during REM sleep and that if you remember your dreams or that you did dream it was because you woke during your REM sleep interrupting your dreams.

But I read recently that we do some "directed dreaming" during stage 1 sleep. At this stage we can control our dreams and their outcomes. And they usually are about something that we want to do, plan to do, or is bothering us in some way.


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Resmed VPAP Auto. Humidaire 3i, Simplicity & Micro masks, ResScan 3.4, S8 ResLink, Embla oximeter.