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Sleep Report for 2023

I never filed my sleep report for 2022 but since I’ve got my “CPAP Compliance Officer” appointment this week I figured I would pull the data from my SD card, run it through OSCAR, the Open Source CPAP Analysis Reporter, and show you 2023 so far.

Besides the first quarter of the year when I was sick a lot, including COVID, I feel like I slept pretty well. Sure, there are some insomnia nights in there (red lines) and some missing nights due to being sick and just unable to sleep wearing a damn mask on my face (and one due to an international overnight flight) but overall, I feel pretty good most mornings in comparison to 2020/2021.

In other news, my CPAP has shown a warning about imminent motor failure for the past 5+ months and my insurance company has so far not been able to get a replacement or repair. Supposedly things are “backed up” or something, so I don’t know… might die in my sleep soon. Hopefully not, I still have a lot to do!

Update: I got a new one in 2024… Not from the insurance company.

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Sleep Report for Sep/Oct 2021

Two for one! October has been so busy I never got to upload the September data, so here it is along with October, which is almost over as of the time of this publication. again, the important thing to remember here is that this is the time my CPAP is in operation, which means I may or may not be sleeping. My normal routine is that I fall asleep quickly, sleep a few hours, then wake up and if I’m lucky I fall asleep again and if not… I call it a night, leave the room, and go find another place to lie down and rest.

I made a real effort to attempt to fall back asleep again when I awake, and I think it’s been working better. I’ve also made a number of life changes in October than are probably the reason for better sleep this month. I hope the trend continues. (More info in another post.)

Overall though, good trends! I only had one night in October that was under 6 hours and one under 5 hours. These are similar results to what I was seeing in May & June. (June had a few bad nights due to travel.) Anyway, sleep well, my friends!

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Sleep Report for August 2021

I’m filing this month’s report a bit early. I had to mail in my SD card so my medical provide could examine it. (I guess they don’t read my blog.) I put in a card of my own and the first two nights I used my CPAP it reported 19 hours of sleep and 11 hours of sleep. Those don’t seem to show up here, which is good. And no, I did not sleep that many hours.

Overall the numbers for August were pretty good. Not quite as good as May, but better than June or July. (See May through August below.) I am still tired every day, but that’s just life I guess. I learned that my mom is going to do a sleep test as well, which reminded me of how bad things were before I had the CPAP. So even though I don’t get 8 hours of sleep, it used to be much worse. It’s all perspective, I guess. Good Night!

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Sleep Report for July 2021

July looks good by the numbers.. 100% compliant, which means I used my CPAP machine for at least 4 hours each night. While using the machine while sleeping is the goal, it doesn’t mean that I’m getting good sleep, or enough sleep.

I averaged 6h15m of sleep per night in July (June was 6h36m and May was 7h06m). While these numbers are good, I know that in reality I often lie awake in the morning, mask on, unable to sleep. It’s often around 4:30am or later, which means I’ve got my 4 or 5 hours of sleep, but then I’m not sleeping buy still masking. Often I give up by 5am, get up and… go lie down elsewhere in the house. I don’t fall asleep again, even though I’m still pretty tired.

Lately when I’m up at 5am I make some Pocket Operator jams, so at least I can be creative, do something I enjoy doing, and not just stare at my mobile and scroll the morning away.

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Sleep Report for June 2021

June is gone! My sleep was good, not quite as good as May, but still pretty good… for me. Looks like I treated myself to a nice long sleep on my birthday, but then missed some usage a few days later. Not surprising, as those were travel days away from home. Home is always the best place for sleeping.

Lately I’ve been waking up just after 5am, which is not great, so this week I’ve made an effort to try to keep sleeping, but I’m also willing to call it quits and just get up if I cannot. We’ll see how that goes. I took a nap today, which is something I rarely do, but I spent hours in the kitchen baking, so I think I earned it. I miss napping with Tinky. That cat could sleep!