RE: Do I have a leak??
Your leak rate is fine. I don't know why but the ResMed's sometimes can be off a couple of points. It's not enough to matter though. Your treatment isn't affected.
RE: Do I have a leak??
You can have a sweet dream and you'll smile and get a leak!
There's supposed to be an exhale valve. It's there to keep you from suffocating.
RE: Do I have a leak??
Thanks folks, glad to hear this. It took me a long time to track down the source of the Dearth Vader mask noise so mostly I wanted to verify that the problem is not lingering somewhere beneath my radar. Anyway the Dearth Vader noises seem to have moved from my cpap back to the big screen which is the way I want it!
11-19-2017, 11:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2017, 11:23 PM by ajack.)
RE: Do I have a leak??
To start with, to try and get the cpap working a bit better, I would have the min on 16 and see if that stabilises it a bit. I would also reduce the ramp time to what you need to fall asleep.
Assuming you haven't turned off the flags, and I would double check. Do you always have AHI 0.00 nights? Unplugging the machine for half an hour can help reset it too.
you could also put up zoomed in charts of the area to see if anything is obvious, there are some very good people who can help.
If the advice you will receive doesn't fix things, I would go back to the doctor and talk about a bpap/bilevel titration sleep study.
Your AHI is good but the stats on the left hand side are a bit out, also assuming the machine is counting correctly.
These are the things I would talk about.
Med/median tidal volume is down, breath rate per minute is up, minute vent is ok.
you are breathing in longer than you are breathing out.
you are using over 15cm of pressure.
RE: Do I have a leak??
Ok, I remember that thread, I still think to use more pressure, to see if these events can be better controlled. Re the other thread, the high breath rate for 11 minutes wasn't good, but not the worst thing on your chart. The machine can miscount if there is a pulse in the breath, the machine sees it as two breaths. You need to zoom in and count the real exhales