Has always worked well with the Resmed Machines I use sleepyhead because the ResMed program is expensive here in Australia. I am beyond frustrated, but SleepyHead may, literally, have been a lifesaver.Īnd there are lots of helpful people on a certain other forum that's been around for many years to help with SleepyHead.īe sure to donate to the saint who developed it and gave it to the world for whatever you can afford to pay. That's 5 events in under 5 minutes, with max 7 breaths between them.ĪHI is absurd as a descriptor of quality of sleep, and it was only after I read over the phone to my sleep doc an actual (similar) string of numbers could I convince him to order a pulse oximetry test and now put me on oxygen at night until SOMEone can figure out how to treat the centrals.ĭon't ask. It was SleepyHead software (that another patient helped me - dull-witted - to install on my laptop and get to work) that showed me EXACTLY what was going on.Īn AHI of 5, or 5 events per hour, can be as relatively mild as 5 10-second hypopneas scattered individually through each of your hours of sleep, or it can look like the following, where the numbers alternate between seconds of obstructions OR centrals and the number of breaths I take between each event: I have spent the past year+ trying to get my sleep doc to pay attention to the fact that I have NOT been doing well despite having an AHI bouncing along around 5. Under advice from my doc, I moved from 6 to 7 for a while then to 8 and finally to 9 - but it was watching it all in Sleepyhead that made me comfortable with doing that. This allows me to use the EPR setting of 3 without worrying that it has introduced the centrals that can be associated with both EPR and with other variations in pressures. I can also see that I do not have any issue with Clear Airways which are potential Centrals. So now i am starting at 9, have less variation and fewer spikes, and because of not varying, leaks are better controlled. events tend to happen when pressure falls below 9 and then the pressure goes higher than it needs to if I just start at 9. I started on APAP at 6 to 15, but soon saw that my pressure goes up to 9 as soon as I fall asleep.

I feel like I am still learning, but I could clearly see things like what my pressures were doing throughout the night. I found great documentation on it on another forum, and a lot of other knowledgeable users.

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