Key Takeaways/Learnings
- Mouth tape makes a big difference; otherwise I get a lot of leakage
- It’s better to get longer sleep and consistent duration
My Stats & Settings
Stats
2025-09-23
Settings:
- Changed Min to 8.0
- Turned off EPR
Data: May 1 - September 22
- Average Pressure: 8.65
- 95% Pressure: 10.62
- AHI: 2.26
- Min Pressure: 7
- Max Pressure: 14.82
- Average Leak Rate: 1.81
- 95% Leak Rate: 12
- % of time above Leak Rate threshold: 1.32%
2024-08-05
July 16 - August 4
- Average Pressure: 8.18
- 95% Pressure: 10.96
- AHI: 6.58
2024-08-18
August 5 - August 17
- Average Pressure: 9.43
- 95% Pressure: 10.72
- AHI: 7.58
- Min Pressure: 7.8
- Max Pressure: 11
- Average Leak Rate: 1.57
- 95% Leak Rate: 9.6
- % of time above Leak Rate threshold: 1.85%
Change min to 8.5 Max to 11 or 12
What to Do
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- Adjust max APAP to P95 level
- Have min closer to average pressure levels (example: if average pressure is 7.5, put it at 7.0)
Learning & Education
P95
P95 it means that you spent 95% of the night at or below 11.
It means that you were above 11 for 5% of the night.
Clear Airway (CA) = Central Apnea
“Central apnea and clear airway apnea can be considered, more or less, to be synonymous. A true central apnea can be detected during a sleep study, a chest belt reveals no effort to breathe. A CPAP machine is not sophisticated enough to do what is done in a sleep study. A CPAP machine can, when an apnea occurs, attempt to determine if the airway is open. It does this by sending pressure pulses into your airway and looking at how it responds.”
Central Apnea = brain not sending signal
https://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php?title=Central_sleep_apnea_(CSA)
Mouth Leaks, Etc.
RE: SleepyHead - What is a ‘Clear Airway’ Event?
(03-06-2019, 12:49 PM)dreamstream Wrote:Is it possible that a ‘Clear Airway’ - CA event could also be open mouth breathing?
No. But mouth-leaking is far more serious than the registering of a CA event. If air is leaking out your mouth your airway collapses and you can’t breathe. You are receiving no effective CPAP therapy.
Quote:Is there a way to tell if I’m using a nasal mask but breath through my mouth?
Yes. You look at your leak rate graph. If you see extended periods of time (say 10 to 30 or more minutes) where the leak rate is elevated far above the baseline that could indicate mouth-leaking. Try a chin strap. If that doesn’t work, a full face mask.
Mouth leaks can also wake you up, and if enough of that happens your night’s sleep is ruined.