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I'm getting the hang of this thing now, and thanks for the help so far. I really appreciate it! Last night I had the best sleep that I've had for years, and although I did wake up at 04:20, I did doze off again until almost 06:00. I don't like my nasal mask. Even with the soft gel seal, it needs to be rather tight or else it leaks when I sleep on my side. I will buy a F&P Brevida nasal pillow mask next week so maybe that will work better for me.
I've attached the chart from last night. It seems to look good with zero AHI events. How does it look to you guys? Thanks.
Kieth, those are excellent results, and I don't personally see them very often (assuming you have events switched on. I would suggest allowing the maximum pressure to go higher. You are using EPR 2 which reduces the effective pressure during EPAP and you might need a bit more room to allow this move. This will be especially important if you try a EPR at 3. I suspect that pressure is rising on flow limitations.
On future charts, please minimize the monthly calendar by clicking the ^ on the date line, and turn off the pie chart in the menu File/Preferences/Appearance. Thanks!
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Thanks, I did have the max pressure set to 10 but then I saw a few CA events appear. I\ll try some more with your suggestions but it will probably be next week sometime when I get the nasal pillow mask.
For me, I went through some phases of adjusting to xPAP therapy. One phase had it difficult for me to get more than 4 or so hours of sleep. I believe it's because my body was finally getting restful & restorative sleep, so it thought 4 hours of restorative sleep was fine enough.
Also, with having gotten such restorative sleep, when I'd wake up (to use the restroom, or tend to a dog, etc.), my body had trouble going to sleep because it wasn't so dead tired. Thus my ears would hear everything, and my brain couldn't shut back down to go to sleep. (This still happens to me, but now after about 7 hours of sleep.)
It's a phase. You'll get through it. I think the body needs to adjust to getting restful sleep, and once it's used to that it'll start wanting *more* hours of restful sleep.
Thanks Hydrangea, I really appreciate all of the encouragement on this forum. I was rather desperate before because I just did not get what I needed from the clinician that did my tests. I must say that I am confident that with all this help, I will get better. Be well.
Machine: Sefam S.box Mask Type: Full face mask Mask Make & Model: Philips Respironics Amara Gel Humidifier: Sefam S.box CPAP Pressure: 4-12 CPAP Software: OSCAR
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04-21-2023, 01:47 PM (This post was last modified: 04-21-2023, 01:49 PM by xkon.
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RE: Anyone used a Sefam S.Box machine?
Hey there KeithR, GreakAU ( and all ! ),
Have you managed to import your Sefam data to Oscar maybe? I can't seem to figure it out (or maybe it's not supported/compatible with any other model at all) but I thought of asking as importing a folder or reading from a card doesn't seem to do anything for me.
I got a bit confused with Keith's replies here since there are screenshots and mentioned of a Sefam machine but not sure if those are still from the Autoset afterall haha .
If Oscar doesn't support it yet ( I'll try to see if I can help on that ^_^ ) is there any other software that you're using maybe? The phone application is not that great to be honest :/ .
05-27-2023, 03:58 PM (This post was last modified: 05-27-2023, 04:05 PM by Kingsway.)
RE: Anyone used a Sefam S.Box machine?
I'm finding the S.Box very quiet - their is little or no motor 'whine' - the main noise heard is of air rushing into the inlet when you take a breath. Their are certainly reasons to prefer an Resmed Airsense - easy of use (GUI) and being able to use OSCAR.
But I'd say not much wrong with the S.Box if thats you're only choice. (It was in my case, as it was issued by the UK NHS)
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Machine: PHILIPS RESPIRONICS REMSTAR PRO SYSTEM ONE SERIES 60 Mask Type: Full face mask Mask Make & Model: RESMED AIRFIT F10 Humidifier: HEATED HUMIDIFIER CPAP Pressure: 12 CPAP Software: SleepyHead
I've had a Resmed Airsense s10 for a few years off the UK NHS. It broke last week no data was recording to machine or sd card.
The hospital gave me another machine the SEFAM S BOX. I was a bit worried as i've never head or this make or model.
I managed last night to install the app to my phone and work out the settings on the cpap menu. To be honest I was not too happy as the front buttons and menu are quite fiddley and not as easy and detailed as the Airsense s10 I am used to. The buttons and menu remind me of tech from the 80's.
Anyways I used the s box last might for 9 hoiurs. I slept better than usual. The machine is telling me no leaks and an ahi of 3.9.
No leak details or percentage it can only tell you yes or no for leaks. After some fiddling I managed to view my results on the Sefam app on my phone. What a useless app that is! It only shows a chart for leak, ahi and duration. No option to view 1 day just weekly, monthly, yearly on a chart. As I would with the Airsense s10 I removed the sd card and put it into my laptop. When I click on the sd card in windows the spinning circle. I cannot view the card. In Oscar I click on export data and Oscar cannot read the card and Oscar stalls until I remove the sd card from the laptop. It looks like th S BOX uses a different format or is encrypted and cannot be viewEd in windows or using Oscar. I am disappointed as I often have too much leak and my past AHI for a long time has been over 5. I would like to read the S box results in Oscar and monitor my therapy. I also cannot find any information online on how to enter clinical settings on the S BOX.
I would like to adjust setting to my liking as I did on the Airsense S10. There is a socket on the back of the S BOX the square usb socket as you get on the back of a usb printer. Maybe this is how they plug the machine into a computer to change setting maybe with some software?
All in all I am very disappointed with this machine. The only positive is that it is very quiet in use I can hardly hear it it's the quietest cpap i've ever had.
