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what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
#21
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
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Days Used: 526 - Data actually only goes back to Mid June last year.
Low Use Days: 10
Compliance: 98.1%
Days AHI of 5 or greater: 269

Since I discovered Sleepyhead on March 1'st, I have managed to get the AHI down to a constant 3-5 typically. Took a month of tweaking to get here. Next step is I am waiting on a new AirCurve 10 Vauto BIPAP machine. DME approved and doctor approved. Just waiting for BlueCross to sign off. I think I went at least the last 5 years, based off of how I felt, with an AHI > 5 easily.
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#22
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
129 days of use and 1 day over 5, which is the day I went from the bed to a Lazy-Boy chair.
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#23
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
Five years of use. Maybe 25 nights over 5.0 and most of them were when I tried to sleep in a recliner.
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#24
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
(04-28-2018, 09:05 PM)sheepless Wrote: Thinking-about in the right side 'navigation' panel, under 'records', sleepyhead tells me...

Where are these 'records' of which you speak?

AH!! Found it! had to drag the window in from the right edge to uncover the nav panel.

45 days AHI > 5 out of 267 days (17%). Average 2.2 over the last 30 days.
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#25
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
Over the last year, I have probably had about 4 or 5 nights where I exceed 5 AHI's.  My overall average is 1.9 AHI per night.  I would like to get it below 1, but that seems very hard to do.  I rarely have a night where the AHI is below 1. I keep tinkering with the settings, but nothing changes my outcome. I have come to the conclusion that around 2 AHI is probably my set point.  

This is really a good topic to discuss.  I have often thought that my 1.9 AHI was on the high side of what most CPAP users achieve.  It's comforting to know that I am perhaps about average in my results.
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#26
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
I may have the high score.

Days Used: 577
Days AHI of 5 or greater: 503

~87% of my nights are above 5.

Worst night AHI was 38.59.

I suppose it's an improvement over my original sleep study (untreated was something around 72 AHI), but far from treated.
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#27
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
(04-28-2018, 09:05 PM)sheepless Wrote: I'm curious how that compares to others', if you're willing to share.

You're doing better than me ... I'm at 88%. Sigh.
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#28
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
Thanks to advice from this forum I haven't had and AHI over 2 in 18 months.
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#29
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
Been on CPAP 9 months. I was 15-20 AHI every single night, even with 13-20cm auto pressure.

Then I had minor surgery to open my airway, and I'm down to 'only' 10 AHI average every night (pressure currently 11-15cm).

I have more surgery soon, and hopefully AHI will decrease more.
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#30
RE: what is your percentage of days of ahi 5 or greater?
In 4 years of use, I had 2 days with a real bad cold where it shot up to 28. I upped the pressure by 1cm until the cold was over. It dialed the ahi down below 5.

Other than that, my AHI has averaged around 0.7 and never exceed 2.
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