Odd sleep apnea question

One part honey (raw honey) one part lemon juice. Nuke until warm and mix well. Drink straight or add to tea.

That, or plain ole salted tater chips. Both help a sore throat!

 

Naw... I don't say honey, that's reserved for my fiancée. ...get it right sweety-pie.

(Relax, I'm funning you!)

 

Alright...this is fun. You'll love this. The machine itself CANNOT determine if you were asleep or not. The exception being if you reach over and smack the knob to turn it off. So essentially, it's one more instance where these people are lying through their teeth.

Now, it IS true that our breathing patterns change from when we are awake to when we sleep. In some it is possible to see the moment you fall asleep. I know my breathing pattern changes slightly because as I fall asleep I tend to hold my breath slightly.

The only viable and accurate way to tell if you're asleep is by using electrodes. Otherwise they are looking at a graph and guessing based upon breathing patterns.

Another fun fact for you, triply so even...

1). People who use cpap for an extended period do form a dependency on the device. While sleeping without won't kill you, the person may find themselves unable to fall asleep and stay asleep without it.

2). What few people do remain compliant for years can have worse heart trouble depending upon when they start. As the body ages and adapts to one's osa, regardless of severity, the blood vessels around the heart grow and thicken to allow extra blood flow. If you start cpap use earlier than age 50, then you have a startlingly lesser chance to survive a heart attack.

3) cpap users often develop central sleep apnea after being put on cpap, the reason is currently unknown and it's a shot in the dark if they will cease with the discontinuation of cpap.

...yeah... This is looking more and more like a career change and class action suit.

 

I'm going to put my sd card into my laptop when I get home...I want to know what these people are looking at and how exactly they think they can see when I sleep.

...if they seriously cannot tell a difference, then I'm going to start doing that. Most of my runs are 4+ hours, which leaves only home time when I'll probably have to actually use the thing.

That being said... Anyone here that uses PPD as their company to monitor? Don't post here if you drive with the mask on, but do pm me...

I'm back to severely doubting half the claims they make...if not more than half.

 

Yeah, that's what I'm slowly learning... Admittedly I've been making assumptions up until just recently, but I had wondered if your logs would be compared to your sleep times.

Actual time frame I believe is shown.. Unfortunately, anything less than outright badgering won't let you see your records from the machine.

I know of a program I can use to view them. So that's not as big a deal.

Frankly, some stuff is pretty protected... So the best way to find out about something, versus just asking, sometimes is to make the mistake and see what the results are.

That's how I found out that they look at your breathing patterns to assist in determining if you're awake or asleep.

I'm not wanting to game the system just yet. Barring anything I may do to learn or use to get by that is... In order to show that something isn't working, you've got to play by the rules first. ...that was supposed to have been the month of March, which they said they never got.

 

http://www.sleepfiles.com/SH2/

If you're interested in seeing what your CPAP machine records, here's a safe file you can download and install on your computer. It's compatible with most of the major CPAP machines, and will give you everything your machine records.

That being said... My CPAP device DOES record the time of usage. I would imagine most do. So if you drive vampire, or solar, and use your machine then just be aware of that.