In anticipation of my BIPAP Re: New Thread

[Plmnb]

And here is a zoom of the best as I could determine, for a "good" wave shape zoom.

What say you?

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Plmnb

[ApneaQuestions]

I think you've got a good feel for where to zoom and what to look for these days.
If you wanted to zoom in on the OA and the CA around 6:25 that might be a fun informative thing to look at.
After all... there isn't much else going on event-wise is there? :-)

As for the Yoga thing.. I'm out of ideas other than what I previously mentioned.
If I was somewhere in the ballpark by thinking that it was your body's way of fixing your breathing... that may just stop happening over the coming days or weeks.

No I'm not a therapist. :-)
But I recently did a lot of reading on CBT and began to realize how I've spent most of my life being my own worst enemy with slightly faulty thinking.
It's a fascinating subject but a bit off topic for here. Check out Dr. David Burns if you're interested... he has a great website with audio podcasts too.

Glad to hear that the improvements are starting to feel real and not just academic improvements on a wiggle plot.

[Osiris357]

Looking really good Plmnb!!! You should start to feel much better and have it last all day long on a regular basis very soon. Just don’t get discouraged if it starts to go in the other direction. If your charts are still looking like that take a look at how much sleep you’re getting. Chances are you’re behind if your dragging. That’s my problem at the moment. PAP is going great but my hours of sleep is lagging behind from being up to late the past several days.

[Plmnb]

After all... there isn't much else going on event-wise is there? :-)

(Uh oh, a QUOTE.  I really am trying OpalRose   )


LOL, I know.  I gotta get in a longer sleep session though.  I'm afraid I'm going to end up with a poor compliance issue.

I'm going to look now around at the 6:25 mark you cite.  BRB

PS. You are correct, it is so rewarding to realize the benefits of working therapy in actual life, versus the charts.  I just got a little shiver thinking about all the improvement so far and how I hope everyone else here seeking assistance gets to feel the same level of satisfaction in their quest for GOOD sleep. It appears I may just be dodging a bullet on the possibility of additional surgery and since I am allergic to pain, these improvements have me   

I'll look at the info on Dr. David Burns, but quickly, what is CBT?

Plmnb

[Plmnb]

Osiris   for the heads up about the possibility of a period when things may degrade a bit.  I'll TRY not to worry too much when/if it happens.  Because, by now I'm pretty sure we know I'd probably post another urgent call for help that reads like I'm freaking out. 

Plmnb

[ApneaQuestions]

I'll look at the info on Dr. David Burns, but quickly, what is CBT?

Google answers most of my questions these days ;-)

[Plmnb]

I did a little Photoshop myself ApneaQuestions 

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Plmnb

ADDED: PS. I'm trying to wrap my head around why a person, getting decent response from their machine, is sleeping along pretty well, then BOOM, an event.  If the machine is doing what it is supposed to then why does this happen?  Could it be simply that the setting still need a tiny tiny bit of adjustment?

[Plmnb]

Yeah, I knew when I wrote that I should just Google it.  Sorry.

Plmnb

EDIT:  ohhh.  I've had that therapy!  Not sure it worked, lol.

[OpalRose]

Plmnb!

I think you got that quote thing down pat!

And congrats on the better readings, but try to get more sleep. It doesn't take much to allow ourselves to adopt "not so perfect" sleep habits.

[ApneaQuestions]

I think the technical term for the blue area is "general shenanigans and buggering about" ;-)

Seriously though, you can see an attempted breath immediately above the letter "W" in the word "What" of your annotation that can't break through the obstruction and doesn't get above zero flow. On the next breath, you managed to breathe again and have a more normal looking breath.

Similarly, you have 4 breath attempts in the green area that can't break through the obstruction. Once again, the amount of flow is almost non-existent (doesn't get above zero) and so this gets detected as an apnea because those 4 breath attempts didn't really succeed and took more than 10 seconds to resolve.

On the blue mask pressure line, you can see the little ripples that the machine generates during the apnea to try to tell if you are having a CA or an OA. Those ripples send a pressure "echo" back to the machine and it uses that "echo" to determine if your airway is open or closed. BTW.. It's not really an "echo".. that was poetic license.