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#11
RE: New to cpap
It will do it automatically.
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#12
RE: New to cpap
which screen in sleepy head is good to share here to let others take a look ?  over view?
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#13
RE: New to cpap
The Daily view is the best. Please review the links I have listed below before posting.
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#14
RE: New to cpap
Welcome, one newbie to another !
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#15
RE: New to cpap
Hello all !

It's been just short of a month, but I can't see any difference, the excessive daytime sleepiness persists, may even be worse.

Resmed airsense 10 & Resmed Airfit F20 mask

Lowest sleep score so far was 90, a rare night waking up at 3 a.m. was the reason, there have been no air leaks and my apnea episodes dropped from 34 per hour to 3 per hour on average, I've been sleeping without Ambien for over 9 hours a night, sounds great right ? The daytime sleepiness has been depressing it's like going backwards, maybe I need more time since it's been just short of a month ?

I used a Resmed SD card and the Sleepyhead software for Windows for the first time, I'm thoroughly confused ... according to the data there have been NO apnea episodes recorded, yet my daily report sent to my laptop via WIFI says something different, that there have been on-average 3 episodes per hour, ????

Any ideas why the big difference? Maybe I didn't have sleep apnea after all ?

Oh-jeez
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#16
RE: New to cpap
you need more time
it can take 3-12 months for the white brain matter to heal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25142557
RESULTS:
Results in pre-treatment OSA patients showed impairments in most cognitive areas, mood and sleepiness that were associated with diffuse reduction of WM fiber integrity reflected by diminished fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) in multiple brain areas. After 3 months of CPAP, only limited changes of WM were found. However, over the course of 12 months CPAP treatment, an almost complete reversal of WM abnormalities in all the affected regions was observed in patients who were compliant with treatment. Significant improvements involving memory, attention, and executive-functioning paralleled WM changes after treatment.
mask fit http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php...ask_Primer
For auto-cpap, from machine data or software. You can set the min pressure 1 or 2cm below 95%. Or clinicians commonly use the maximum or 95% pressure for fixed pressure CPAP, this can also be used for min pressure.
https://aasm.org/resources/practiceparam...rating.pdf
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#17
RE: New to cpap
"you need more time

it can take 3-12 months for the white brain matter to heal"

This makes perfect sense, I had a brain MRI a few months ago, the results: "diffuse cerebral atrophy".

The loss of neurons is a normal part of the aging process, but the neurologist said what he can see from my images appears to be "more than that" ( his words ), no signs of Alzheimer's or dementia thankfully, but there are cognitive changes, again beyond what the doctor would expect for someone my age ( 65 ).

My sleep study occurred months after the MRI was taken, I had no idea I had sleep apnea before that, had the neurologist known about the sleep apnea I can only wonder what he might have told me ?

Time heals all wounds ?

Much appreciate your feedback !
Thanks
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#18
RE: New to cpap
(05-13-2017, 09:22 PM)ajack Wrote: you need more time
it can take 3-12 months for the white brain matter to heal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25142557
RESULTS:
Results in pre-treatment OSA patients showed impairments in most cognitive areas, mood and sleepiness that were associated with diffuse reduction of WM fiber integrity reflected by diminished fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) in multiple brain areas. After 3 months of CPAP, only limited changes of WM were found. However, over the course of 12 months CPAP treatment, an almost complete reversal of WM abnormalities in all the affected regions was observed in patients who were compliant with treatment. Significant improvements involving memory, attention, and executive-functioning paralleled WM changes after treatment.
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#19
RE: New to cpap
ajack:

I will give the Cpap treatment the full 3 months of the evaluation period under Medicare guidelines.

The other concern I'm having is the discrepancy between reports/data ... my machine sends a daily sleep report to my computer using WIFI, THAT report says that I'm having approx 3 apnea episodes per hour, each night so far ... the Sleepyhead data loaded from my SD card says there have been NONE, ZERO apnea episodes over the 3 weeks I've been using the machine, that doesn't seem right, one report is wrong, how to find which one?

My sleep study indicated 34 episodes per hour.
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#20
RE: New to cpap
(05-13-2017, 09:22 PM)ajack Wrote: you need more time
it can take 3-12 months for the white brain matter to heal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25142557
RESULTS:
Results in pre-treatment OSA patients showed impairments in most cognitive areas, mood and sleepiness that were associated with diffuse reduction of WM fiber integrity reflected by diminished fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) in multiple brain areas. After 3 months of CPAP, only limited changes of WM were found. However, over the course of 12 months CPAP treatment, an almost complete reversal of WM abnormalities in all the affected regions was observed in patients who were compliant with treatment. Significant improvements involving memory, attention, and executive-functioning paralleled WM changes after treatment.

Great article thanks ajack!
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