I am a newbie, only been on CPAP for 3 months. I have a Philips Respironics but is 1-5 your humidity setting? I don't know about 4 years ago but now they also make machines that are fully data capable. For example, in the morning I turn the knob that is on my CPAP from therapy to info and it gives me my AHI, for the previous night, the average for the week and the past 30 days. I get the same information for the pressure, leaks and periodic breathing.

You said that you are still very, very tired. Are you getting enough sleep at night and have you been to your sleep doctor to discuss? It may be time for your pressure to be adjusted.

megsmom8816, I agree with Springlady re the sleep specialist visit, if you have only been back on it for 3 weeks you may not be getting the full effects yet or things could have changed since you were originally diagnosed. It normally takes months to feel the full effects of the treatment. On the machine, I also use a Resmed that is two years old, you are probably using a S8 series, mine is the S9, if you can tell me the model name I can look it up and let you know how to read the data if it is data capable, most machines have at least the basic data on the screen.

Tez62, I was wrong about the model. It is a REMStarPlus M Series.

megsmom8816, I looked it up on the net as it is a different brand and model to mine, in regards to data it say the following:
Covered LCD display for advanced settings and reporting of therapy statistics and patient reminders
Optional Encore Pro SmartCard capability for basic compliance reporting
Enhanced compliance reporting statistics include humidification use and C-Flex setting
It is possible yours is older than the details on the website.

Basically AHI stand for Apnea Hypoapnea Index and is how we measure the serverity of SA we have and we can then compare our daily data versus that figure.
our AHI how many times we stop beathing on average per hour for 10 sec's or more.
We want to be under 5, normal people stop breathing between 0-5 time per hour, with SA there are 3 levels of serverity, 5-15 Mild, 15-30 Moderate and 30+ Servere. Each time an apnea occurs we not only don't get vital oxygen that we need to our heart and brain but we also wake up either conciously or sub conciously therefore never getting through the sleep stage we need and that is why we are tired all the time because we think we have slept but we haven't. Most machines are data capable and can give us read out about what we have been doing minute by minute during the night and this includes our AHI, any leaks, usage etc. Do you see a simcard in your machine? If not the only way you could see this data is to take it to either your sleep specialist or DME and ask them to give you a printout. If yours has a simcrad, I can give you a site where you can download the software for free but your machine may be too old to use this software. Can you contact who you got it from to ask them? Let us know how you go.

I do not have a sim card in mine. I looked all over. I do think I should probably get another sleep study just so I can update my machine/mask and everything. They won't give me a new mask until I get a new study since it has been over two years. I know...I asked :)


Thanks for the help.

That sounds best, when you get the new machine, I can show you how to get the data off it.