06-26-2025, 05:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2025, 05:30 AM by Spiro. Edited 1 time in total.)
Flow rate pattern
Can someone please look at my last night's flow rate pattern and tell me if it's normal?
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Flow rate pattern
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Spiro
Posts: 12 Threads: 4 Joined: Jun 2025
Machine: Airsense 10 Auto 
ejbpesca
Posts: 842 Threads: 36 Joined: Oct 2022
Machine: ResMed AirSense 10
06-26-2025, 07:37 AM
RE: Flow rate pattern
Congratulations on one of the best-looking OSCAR reports I've seen around the net. The set of breaths you zoomed in upon shows round top shapes described as normal breathing. You can look over the others by pressing the left/right arrow keys to scan over the whole graph. Mouse over the Flow Rate label and click to change the scale of the graph.
Your Med pressure is 9.92 so the Max pressure can be lowered yet it is wonderfully stable so fine-tuning may not be needed. Check out articles in Wiki at the top of the Forum page about breath wave patterns for detailed information on shapes. Yours resemble the icon for OSCAR, mine look like the Rocky Mountains and Badlands.
I only give suggestions from experience as a fellow CPAP user, not professional advice. My suggestions are for consideration, they are not definitive instructions.
jdougc
Posts: 1,235 Threads: 7 Joined: Sep 2024
Machine: ResMed AirCurve 10
06-26-2025, 08:21 AM
RE: Flow rate pattern
Looks like you have mouth leaks, flat longer leaks, not spiky like mask leaks. Nasal mask "amplify" them, imo. Your therapy is almost compromised.
Are you using mouth tape, 2x5 strip of the Kinesiology cotton elastic athletic tape? Consider the SomNoSeal device. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u_S1ADwVmA The inhalations are delayed, like mine, but the tops are nice and round, great.
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