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I see you had a couple of breaks in your evening session that lasted several minutes, in your left hand panel at the bottom there is an area titled Session Information, you can turn off/on these different Mini-sessions, and get an AHI scored for that individual mini session. Give it a try with this evenings session and see the results for yourself, the difference the SCC made. Then report back what you have learned,
Then Set your Press Max to 16 cmH2O, your past Oscar Reports indicate that you need additional support provided with the addition range.
Those changes will give us a better view of your settings and give you a better night's sleep and an improved AHI score.
Post back with additional OSCAR Reports, with the additional information provided, we will guide you into optimizing your settings.
I see you had a couple of breaks in your evening session that lasted several minutes, in your left hand panel at the bottom there is an area titled Session Information, you can turn off/on these different Mini-sessions, and get an AHI scored for that individual mini session. Give it a try with this evenings session and see the results for yourself, the difference the SCC made. Then report back what you have learned,
Then Set your Press Max to 16 cmH2O, your past Oscar Reports indicate that you need additional support provided with the addition range.
Those changes will give us a better view of your settings and give you a better night's sleep and an improved AHI score.
Post back with additional OSCAR Reports, with the additional information provided, we will guide you into optimizing your settings.
Greetings UnicornRider, last night I decided to make use of the recommendations given by Granddude Ron above, he was talking about trying a flat pillow, his recommendation seems to be quite good as it can lower my AHI from 6 AHI almost 7 AHI to 3.03 AHI. Although what he recommended has helped me a lot, I still want to lower my AHI from 3.03 AHI to almost 0 AHI as much as possible.
Yesterday you told me about the calendar, I have already hidden it, but the sessions I think it would not apply for tonight as it seems that I had no breaks, that's why only one session appears.
Here below I will be leaving screenshots of how the night went, I remain attentive to your recommendations:
(03-14-2025, 07:38 PM)Granddude Ron Wrote: I think I experience chin tucking sometime. I use a wedge incline pillow, which I think helps me a lot. Finding a sufficiently flat pillow to go with the incline pillow is difficult. I just found a new pillow at Target that is very flat, but very soft, and it could even be too flat in its base condition. The advantage is that it's a pillow system that accepts inserts to thicken the base pillow. I don't know if it's ok to post a photo or link to it, but I think it's ok to name it. Customizable Bed Pillow (Buildable Outer Comfort Cover and Supportive Inserts Sold Separately) – Casaluna™.
Greetings Granddude Ron, thanks for your recommendation, it helped me a lot above this message you can see how I did, but I still want to lower my AHI to as close to 0 as possible.
Welcome back, I have seen that or a very similar pillow that Granddad Dude Ron was discussing on Amazon. It caught my eye, so I am glad to hear some feedback on that system.
You may very well have had the collar too tight, as the majority of Obstructive events were when you had the SCC on. Yet you can see the clustering of events, indicative of positional apnea, in the second half of the night. So properly adjusted this SCC may be able to provide proper relief, or maybe it is the wrong size for your needs. Many of us have several collars in our collection of necessary paraphernalia associated with gaining the best possible restorative sleep.
Because you did not intentionally cause a break in the session, by shutting off the PAP device, it scored your whole night. Had you of caused that break, then utilized the option to select the Mini-session to display and score separately. That is how we learn. My Sleep Doctor taught me this trick as I had much difficulty with compliance for a while after chemotherapy.
So I do see a positive benefit in the SCC, I would like you to continue using with the SCC. There are several different collars on the market because we have varying needs and comforts. You may end up with a different style of SCC.
You need to hide the calendar when posting OSCAR Reports, that will bring up addition valuable information in the left hand side bar. the forum members need to assist you. Follow the guidelines set here: OSCAR Chart Organization
Your Pressure Max is set too low, raise the Pressure max to 16 cmH2O, that will allow your machine to address additional events.
Your Pressure Min is set too low, You spent most of the night right at 12 cmH2O. from your Statistics area. your Median pressure was 11.98 cmH2O. Raise your Pressure Min to 10 cmH2O. We may raise that in the future, but for now we can hope that SCC properly fitted will reduce much of the elevated pressure demand.
We really need to see more of your Device Settings. it is important to get rid of the calendar in posted OSCAR Reports.
(03-16-2025, 11:04 AM)UnicornRider Wrote: Welcome back, I have seen that or a very similar pillow that Granddad Dude Ron was discussing on Amazon. It caught my eye, so I am glad to hear some feedback on that system.
You may very well have had the collar too tight, as the majority of Obstructive events were when you had the SCC on. Yet you can see the clustering of events, indicative of positional apnea, in the second half of the night. So properly adjusted this SCC may be able to provide proper relief, or maybe it is the wrong size for your needs. Many of us have several collars in our collection of necessary paraphernalia associated with gaining the best possible restorative sleep.
Because you did not intentionally cause a break in the session, by shutting off the PAP device, it scored your whole night. Had you of caused that break, then utilized the option to select the Mini-session to display and score separately. That is how we learn. My Sleep Doctor taught me this trick as I had much difficulty with compliance for a while after chemotherapy.
So I do see a positive benefit in the SCC, I would like you to continue using with the SCC. There are several different collars on the market because we have varying needs and comforts. You may end up with a different style of SCC.
You need to hide the calendar when posting OSCAR Reports, that will bring up addition valuable information in the left hand side bar. the forum members need to assist you. Follow the guidelines set here: OSCAR Chart Organization
Your Pressure Max is set too low, raise the Pressure max to 16 cmH2O, that will allow your machine to address additional events.
Your Pressure Min is set too low, You spent most of the night right at 12 cmH2O. from your Statistics area. your Median pressure was 11.98 cmH2O. Raise your Pressure Min to 10 cmH2O. We may raise that in the future, but for now we can hope that SCC properly fitted will reduce much of the elevated pressure demand.
We really need to see more of your Device Settings. it is important to get rid of the calendar in posted OSCAR Reports.
i forgot to mention that last night i slept without the collar. these results were only using the flat pillow.
last night I did not decide to use the collar because I wanted to see how much it affected using the flat pillow by itself. Tonight I will use the collar again and try to make it as comfortable as possible and not as tight as last time.
I will be notifying you of my progress tomorrow.
Could you recommend me a comfortable collar for sleep? I would appreciate it very much.
03-16-2025, 11:41 AM (This post was last modified: 03-16-2025, 11:42 AM by SnoreLord. Edited 1 time in total.)
RE: Settings recomendations
i forgot to comment, i don't know if you saw the new image i sent. i think you saw another one because i did set my max pressure to 16(cmH2O) and hid the calendar, i also think i saw that my average pressure was 13.12(cmH2O). on the other hand i will be increasing the min pressure as you said to 10(cmH2O).
SnoreLord, I take care of several members of the disability community, so I quite often get called away from the computer, it took me several hours and multiple interruptions before I was able to post the last comments. I neglected to notice your post had beat my response.
You do not need to use the Quote function as often as you do. We can figure out who you are responding to. Quoting that much burns up storage.
I have used about 6 or more different collars over the years, every collar was better than the previous, My first was The Eliminator. No longer made, my mother is still using her Eliminator. The Caldara Releaf was a favorite.
You should have a copy of your sleep report, could you redact all personal information, name, address, phone, then post it here. We can learn a lot from it. If you sleep lab did not give you a copy just ask them, they should willingly give it.
I would really like to see you try a collar before you raise the pressures anymore,.
