I was awake and machine recorded AHI 1.8

[T818]

I put on the mask and was awake for 2 hrs. And saw the machine recorded AHI 1.8. 

Is it normal or the machine is broken? Attached is the report.

[Walla Walla]

It's normal. When awake events don't count. The problem is the machine can't tell if your awake or not. So just disregard anything recorded when you know your awake.

[ardenum]

its not uncommon in people with sleep apnea to have apnea when awake.

[Crimson Nape]

A person's breathing is very erratic while awake. Your breathing only becomes rhythmic while asleep.

[SideSleeper]

My husband has the habit of not shutting his CPAP off when he wakes up before he wants to get up--or does get up for a bathroom break and comes back to bed.  His "sleep/wake junk" ruins a perfectly good AHI recorded before this happens as he tosses and turns, holds his breath changing positions, etc.  I need to get him on Sleepyhead so he has a visual of what he is doing.  Your apneas show as CA--typically that means you are holding your breath--very easy to do when awake.

[CB91710]

I'll frequently ruin a "perfect" night (0.0) by staying in bed a couple of hours after I should have gotten up. No Apneas, but I'll always get a couple of CA events during that time.

[T818]

Thanks all for your kind reply. Good to know that my NEW machine is not broken

[Sleepster]

I put on the mask and was awake for 2 hrs. And saw the machine recorded AHI 1.8. 

Is it normal or the machine is broken? Attached is the report.

When that happens to me it usually means I did fall asleep. But it doesn't matter either way. There's no way to tell if there's anything wrong with the machine. If you had 4 pauses in your breathing during a period of time that was just over 2 hours, you'd have a AHI of 1.8. This has nothing to do with whether you were asleep or not.

[Homerec130]

As has been said before, unlike St Nick the machine doesn't know if you are sleeping or awake. :-)

If you have a tendency to lie awake at night after being woken SleepyHead is really important to see how well you actually did. On days when I have a "bad" AHI I can usually track it to periods when I was lying awake in bed hoping to fall back asleep. I can see the high AHIs (usually plateaus or mesas) and say - yep, that is where I was watching the infomercial on the latest cooking device I don't need. Many a time I have seen AHIs less than 1 and then bang - here is the 10 when I was awake.

Homer