People arrive at a board like this in every conceivable way — some read for a month before saying a word, some post before the mask is out of the bag. Both are fine. These are the habits that get you a useful answer fastest. The full page is at /newcomers.

• Lurk first — it works. Most questions here have already been asked, usually in several variations. Twenty minutes of reading buys you the vocabulary and, about half the time, your own answer.
• How to search. The search box at the top (two or three words, not a sentence: rainout, leak, AHI, prisma), the Library shelves for background, the tags on every topic, and the green-check solved filter for questions that already have an accepted answer.
• Pick a handle and keep your identity yours. Not your real name, not your work email prefix. No address, phone, employer, insurer, policy number, prescription photos or device serial numbers — yours or anybody else's.
• What is safe to share. Cropped chart screenshots, your machine and mask model, how long you have been on therapy, your AHI and leak numbers, what your clinician told you. That is plenty to help you with.
• How to ask. Machine · mask · how long on therapy · what the numbers show · what changed · what you already tried. Six lines, and a title that says what it is about.
• Where things go. Library = discuss an article. SomniCharts = the app itself. Community = everything else. Wrong room just means it gets moved.
• Close the loop. Mark the reply that solved it, say thanks, and come back two weeks later to say what actually worked. That last one is the most valuable thing a newcomer can do here.
• Being read by strangers is the deal. This board is public and indexed; that is exactly why your question already has an answer. Be open about the therapy, private about the person.

The badged Desk accounts you will see are editorial accounts run by the small team behind SomniCharts — real people, not bots, and no invented members. They introduce themselves in the pinned topic in SomniTalk › Site Rules & FAQ.

Then say hello in the Introduce yourself thread pinned at the top of this category: machine, mask, how long, what you want from this place. Four lines is plenty.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

This category is about the forum, not about the SomniCharts app. App bugs belong in
Bug Reports; app ideas belong in Feature Requests.

Fair game here:

• Something on the board is broken — a page that will not load, a button that does
  nothing, an email that never arrives, a layout that falls apart on your phone.
• The category structure does not fit how you actually think about the subject. Genuinely
  useful feedback, and easier to change now than later.
• A moderation decision you think was wrong. Say so once, calmly, and name the thread.
• Something is unreadable — contrast, font size, dark mode, or a table that will not
  scroll on a small screen.
• A rule that is unclear or that produces a silly outcome.

Helpful details: what device and browser, what you clicked, what happened, and a
screenshot with your own details cropped out.

This board is in beta. Some of what you find will be half-finished, and telling us
which half is the most useful thing you can do this week.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

Why can't I post yet?
Posting requires a verified email address. Register, open the mail we send, click the
link, and the posting categories open up. Until then you can read everything.

The verification mail never arrived.
Check spam and any "promotions" tab first. Then use the resend control on your account
page. If it still does not arrive, some mail providers silently discard forum mail — post
in Site Feedback from the account, or contact us through the SomniCharts site.

Is my SomniTalk account the same as my SomniCharts account?
No. They are separate systems with separate logins on purpose. Nothing you post here
touches your therapy data, and nothing in your SomniCharts account is visible here. Using
the same email address for both is fine; using the same password is not a good idea
anywhere.

Can I change my username?
Ask in Site Feedback. Renames are done by hand because they rewrite every mention of
you on the board.

Can I edit or delete my own posts?
Yes — edit and delete are available on your own posts once your account is verified.
Edited posts show that they were edited; that is deliberate, so that a thread still makes
sense after the fact. A post that other people have already replied to should be edited
rather than gutted — leave the question standing so the answers still mean something.

How do I delete my account?
Ask in Site Feedback or by the contact route on the SomniCharts site. We remove the
account and disassociate your posts. Note that we will not silently delete a long thread
that other members contributed to — tell us if you want the content removed as well as
the account, and we will talk it through.

Do you sell or share what I post?
No. The board stores your username, email address, posts and connection metadata, and
that is it. See /privacy for the specifics, including how to ask for a copy
or a deletion.

Is the forum searchable from outside?
Yes. Topics are public and indexed by search engines. Post accordingly.

Something on the forum itself is broken.
Site Feedback, please — not the SomniCharts bug category, which is for the app.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

This is the one thing to read before you post. The full text lives at /rules — it is a single page and it takes about four minutes.

The short version:

• Nothing here is medical advice. Share experience, not instructions. Your clinician decides settings, prescriptions and diagnoses — nobody on this board has examined you.
• Protect yourself first. Use a handle, never your real name. No addresses, phone numbers, employers, insurers, policy numbers, prescription photos or device serial numbers. Crop names and serials out of screenshots. Anything posted here is public forever.
• Be kind, be useful. Disagree with the idea, not the person. No harassment, no shaming, no fear-selling. Say when you are guessing.
• Don't sell. No advertising, affiliate links, referral codes or "DM me for a deal". Vendors are welcome as members, not as a sales channel.
• Search before you post — and it is fine if you don't. Duplicates get merged, never mocked.
• 13+, one person one account, verified email. You can delete your account and your posts on request.
• Moderation. The editorial desks and automated checks may hold, redact, move, lock or remove content. Repeat or malicious behaviour ends in removal. Appeals and legal notices: [email protected].

By registering you agreed to this Code of Conduct, the Terms of Use and the Privacy Notice — the "I agree" box on the registration form is that agreement.

New to boards like this one? The friendly companion page is Recommendations for newcomers: how to search, what is safe to share, and how to ask a question that gets answered.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

The permanent thread for "it would be great if…". Small ideas are welcome — some of the
best changes have been three-line suggestions.

A good request answers three questions

1. What would you do with it? The task, not the widget. "I want to compare two nights
   side by side" tells us far more than "add a compare button", because there may be a
   better answer than a button.
2. How often would you use it? Daily, at every clinic appointment, or once a year.
   That difference decides where an idea lands.
3. What do you do today instead? The workaround is usually the clearest description of
   the problem.

Please

• One idea per post, so it can be discussed and tracked separately.
• Say whether it is web, mobile or both — they are built separately.
• If someone has already asked for it, reply on their post rather than starting again. A
  request with ten replies is far more visible than ten requests with one each.

What we will not do here

• Promise a date. Ideas get a "yes, queued", a "not soon, here's why", or a "no, and
  here's why" — but never a schedule.
• Take clinical feature requests that amount to "tell me what pressure to use". The
  product explains data; it does not prescribe therapy, and that is a deliberate line.

Shipped ideas are announced in Announcements & Updates, credited to the thread they
came from.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

A good bug report is not a long one. It is a specific one. Six lines beats six paragraphs.

Please include

1. What you did — the exact steps, in order. "Uploaded a card, then opened Daily for
   15 August" is a report; "the charts don't work" is not.
2. What you expected, and what happened instead.
3. Where — New Look or Legacy, web or the Android app, and which browser.
4. When — date and rough time, and your time zone. It is how we find the matching
   server-side record.
5. Which machine the data came from — make and model. A surprising number of bugs are
   vendor-specific.
6. Whether it repeats. Once, every time, or only after a particular step?

Screenshots help — clean them first. Crop out your name, profile name, email address
and the device serial number. See the screenshot topic in Data Talk.

Please do not post here

• Your account email, password, or anything that identifies your account. If we need it,
  we will ask for it privately.
• Somebody else's data.
• Billing disputes and "my subscription is wrong" — those need your account looked at,
  which means the in-app feedback button, not a public thread.

What happens next
Reproducible reports get investigated and answered in the thread. Reports we cannot
reproduce get questions — please answer them, because that is usually where the real
trigger turns up. A confirmed fix is announced in Announcements & Updates with the
version it shipped in.

One report per thread, please. Two bugs in one thread means one of them gets forgotten.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

Current prices are on the SomniCharts pricing page — this topic is about what you
actually get, which is the part the price list does not explain well.

Free / lapsed
Your account and your data stay. You can sign in, upload, and see the basic dashboard
tiles. The analysis engines are locked. Nothing is deleted for being on the free state —
re-subscribing unlocks the rest of what is already there.

Silver — the core experience
Uploads, the dashboard tiles, Daily, Overview, Statistics and Reports. This is a complete
way to follow your therapy over time. What is not included: Charts View waveforms,
SomniScan deep analysis, SomniPattern pattern detection, and SomniDoc. Those tiles show a
lock and say what they need.

Gold — everything
SomniDoc AI analysis, Charts View waveforms, SomniScan, SomniPattern, the full deep
analysis experience, and the Clinician Brief with its printing, PDF, tracked email and
14-day share links.

The honest bit

• If you want to watch your therapy — usage, leak, AHI, trends — Silver is genuinely
  enough, and plenty of people stay there.
• If you want to investigate your therapy — waveform detail, pattern hunting, and an
  assistant that explains what it sees and can hand a summary to your doctor — that is
  Gold, and Silver will frustrate you.

Trials and changes
New accounts get a seven-day trial of the paid experience, and picking or changing a tier
starts a fresh seven-day window before billing. Trial time is tracked per person, so
deleting and recreating an account does not mint new trial days. Changing tier revises the
same PayPal subscription; downgrading re-locks the Gold features at the change.

Extra profiles beyond the two free ones are a separate add-on — the app shows the
amount and asks before revising your billing, and deleting one reduces it again.

Billing problems are not a forum topic. If a charge looks wrong or your tier does not
match what you are paying, use the in-app feedback button with your account email — those
get checked against PayPal directly, which nobody in a public thread can do.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

The official Android app (SomniCharts, com.somnicharts.mobile) is on Google Play. It
signs into the same account and shows the same profiles and the same data as the web app.
iOS is planned but not yet available.

What it does

• The dashboard adapted to a phone screen, including SomniDoc analysis.
• Uploads from the phone. Put the card in a reader (or OTG adapter), tap upload, and
  pick the card folder with Android's system folder picker. It streams to exactly the same
  import pipeline as the web: recognised cards import, unrecognised folders go to DropBox
  review, same as the browser.
• Background imports and queueing behave identically — the work happens on the server.
• SomniDoc follow-up questions, and a History chip listing that profile's past
  analyses (tap to re-read, swipe to delete).
• Account deletion and profile management.

What is not on the phone yet

• The Memory panel — what SomniDoc remembers, adding a fact by hand, and Forget
  everything. Those live on the website.
• The Clinician Brief and its sharing tools. The phone's Share button still exports
  the answer you are looking at as a PDF.
• The History chip is hidden entirely when memory is switched off for that profile; the
  switch itself is on the website.

Two things that catch people out

• Subscription checkout opens in your browser via a one-time link. That is deliberate:
  mobile browsers isolate cookies, so the app hands you off safely rather than pretending
  to be signed in. Complete PayPal there and the app picks the tier up.
• Luna G3X / BMC G3 cards need app version 1.12 or newer. Older versions do not
  recognise that card layout and send it to DropBox review instead. Update and re-upload,
  or use the web app for that card.

Missing something you need on the phone? The Feature Requests category is the right
place, and mobile requests are tracked separately from web ones.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

Three different engines with three different jobs. They are often confused, so:

SomniScan — the deep pass over a night's waveform
Where the Daily view draws what the machine recorded, SomniScan goes back over the
high-resolution flow data itself and looks for what the machine's own scoring did not
flag. Its output is a set of findings about a specific night with the evidence attached.

SomniPattern — the pass across many nights
A single night is noise; twenty nights is a signal. SomniPattern looks for repetition:
events clustering at the same hour, a channel drifting week over week, nights that group
into recognisable types. It answers "is this a pattern or was that one bad Tuesday?".

Somni-UARS — the specific hunt for upper-airway resistance
Flow limitation and airway resistance do not always produce scoreable apneas or
hypopneas, which is exactly why they get missed. This engine looks at breath morphology
for that signature rather than at the event count.

What they all have in common

• They read the same imported data you can see. Nothing is inferred from outside your
  account.
• They produce observations, not diagnoses. A finding is a place to look, and a good
  thing to raise with your clinician — it is not a verdict, and it does not replace a
  sleep study.
• They are part of the advanced tier. Locked tiles say which one they need.

Bring findings here if you want help reading them. Bring them to your clinician if you
want to act on them.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

SomniDoc keeps a per-profile archive of its conversations so that later answers can
refer back to earlier ones. It is on by default. Here is exactly what that means and where
every control lives.

What is stored
The topic you picked or the question you typed, SomniDoc's answer, the scope and date
range, and whether Doctor Mode was on. The newest 200 conversations per profile are kept;
older ones are pruned automatically.

What is not stored
The internal topic prompt itself. And nothing crosses between profiles: profile A's
history is invisible to profile B, even inside the same account.

Where to see it
Every SomniDoc panel shows a History · N chip. Open it to re-read a past answer or
delete a single one.

What it does with the memory
After an analysis, a background step distils what you told it (a mask change, an
appointment, a symptom), a dated one-line digest of what it concluded, and the topics you
keep returning to. Later answers receive that and can say "when we looked at July…". Any
answer that used memory says so, and cites how many earlier conversations it drew on. If
the memory is empty it says nothing about the past — it does not invent one.

How to pause or erase it

• Memory · On/Off next to History (also under Profile → edit → SomniDoc Memory).
  Switching it off stops anything new being stored; existing history stays readable.
• Forget everything — type FORGET to confirm — permanently deletes that profile's
  archive.
• Deleting the profile, or the account, deletes it too.
• See and correct it: the Memory panel shows the running summary, the dated facts (you
  can delete any that are wrong), and previous assessments. You can also add a fact by
  hand; facts you add yourself are never overwritten automatically.

Support Mode
When SomniCharts staff assist inside your account, SomniDoc runs without memory. Staff
can neither read nor add to your archive.

One efficiency note
Ask for the same analysis again with nothing newly imported, and SomniDoc replays its
earlier answer — marked From SomniDoc memory — instead of spending one of the day's
questions. Press Analyze again within ten minutes if you want a fresh take.

SomniDoc is educational, not diagnostic. It observes and explains; it does not diagnose
and it does not prescribe.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

The Daily view stacks one night's channels on a shared time axis. Read it top to bottom
and the night tells a story.

• Flow rate — the breath-by-breath trace. This is the channel every event is scored
  from, and the one worth zooming into. Flattened tops, a sawtooth, or a run of shallow
  breaths followed by a big recovery breath all look distinct once you have seen them.
• Pressure — what the machine delivered. On an auto machine, watch where it rises: a
  pressure that climbs and then holds is responding to something.
• Leak — the channel that invalidates everything else when it goes wrong. A high leak
  stretch means the machine's event scoring over that stretch is unreliable, so read leak
  first and events second.
• Event markers — apneas, hypopneas, and the machine's own extra event types. Their
  clustering is usually more informative than their count.
• Snore / flow limitation, where your machine records them.
• Oximetry (SpO2 and pulse), when a compatible oximeter recorded that night.

Three habits worth having:

1. Zoom in. A whole night squeezed into one screen hides everything interesting.
   Ten-minute windows around a cluster are where the answers are.
2. Check the axis before you react. Charts auto-scale; a dramatic-looking excursion
   may be two units wide.
3. Nights run noon to noon. A session starting at 1 a.m. on the 15th belongs to the
   14th's night. This is deliberate and it is why "my night is missing" almost always
   resolves to "it is on the previous date".

Post a night in Data Talk if you want a second pair of eyes — there is a topic there
on how to share a screenshot safely first.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

The Luna range is built by BMC Medical and sold under the React Health / 3B Medical
brand, which is why the same machine has two names depending on where you bought it.
Three card layouts turn up, and you select the card root for all three.

1. Luna G3X (and BMC G3 A20 / B20A on recent firmware)
The card root holds files named after the machine's serial number — something like
A31XXXXXXXX.idx, .evt, .set and .log, plus numbered waveform files .000, .001
and so on. You will probably also see nP3-… files (the machine's language packs) and a
System Volume Information folder. All of that is normal. Select the whole card.

2. Luna G2S (the older Luna)
The same serial-named files, but with a .USR file where the G3 platform has .evt.

3. Luna II / Hoffrichter POINT (ResVent format)
A card with THERAPY and RECORD folders.

The two questions we get most

• "My Luna G3X shows up as BMC Medical G3 A20." That is correct, and it is your
  machine. The device reports itself as a G3 A20; SomniCharts prints what the machine
  says rather than what the retail box says. Your data, charts and settings are complete —
  only the label differs.
• "My G3X card went to DropBox review from the phone." The Android app needs version
  1.12 or newer to recognise the G3-platform layout. Update from Google Play and upload
  again, or upload the same card from the web app.

Worth knowing: the G3 card format is newer than some other tools can read. If a different
program refuses your card, that is not a sign the card is damaged.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

Löwenstein (prisma series) data comes out of prismaTS, and there are two shapes of it.
Both are supported, and you do not need to convert between them.

• A DCM folder exported from prismaTS — select the folder (or the card/folder that
  contains it).
• A dcm.zip archive — upload the zip as it is. Do not unpack it first; the importer
  reads the archive directly.

Notes specific to these machines

• A zip that contains programs is normal. Löwenstein's own exports bundle vendor
  support files alongside the data. The upload scanner is built to expect that and lets
  the archive through — you do not need to strip anything out.
• The model is decoded from the file, not from the box. The prisma range covers CPAP,
  auto, bilevel and S/T modes, and the mode determines which channels and which pressure
  settings appear afterwards. A prisma bilevel will show pressure rows a prisma CPAP does
  not, and that is correct.
• Big exports. Long prismaTS exports can be large; if one exceeds the per-upload
  limit, export it in shorter date ranges and upload them one after another. They merge.
• Re-exporting the same range is safe — duplicates are skipped.

If a prismaTS export is refused or lands in DropBox review, say which prisma model and
which prismaTS version produced it. That pair is usually the whole answer.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

What to select: the card containing the P-SERIES folder — either the card root
or the P-SERIES folder itself. That covers DreamStation, DreamStation 2 and System One.

The question that comes up every week: "why do I have fewer charts than my friend?"

Because the machine records fewer channels, and the app shows you what the machine
actually wrote rather than drawing empty boxes.

• DreamStation 2, and the DreamStation 1 Auto CPAP models, record a flow
  waveform only — one signal, at a low sample rate. There is no mask-pressure waveform
  on the card at all.
• They also do not record tidal volume, respiratory rate or minute ventilation. Those
  exist on bilevel and ASV machines, not on these CPAPs.
• So on those devices SomniCharts hides mask pressure, minute ventilation, respiratory
  rate and tidal volume, and the statistics table shows the channels that exist:
  pressure, leak, snore, and inspiratory/expiratory time.

Nothing is broken and nothing failed to import. A DreamStation CPAP simply writes less to
the card than a ResMed AirSense does, and less than a Philips bilevel does.

Other things worth knowing

• Model names. Cards identify the machine by a model number (the 500X/501X family
  and friends). Devices registered before the friendly-name work still display as their
  raw number — same machine, older label.
• Event types. Periodic breathing and variable breathing are real, separately reported
  events on these devices, not a lumped "other" category.
• System One cards import as well, with the older feature set of the machine.

If your Philips card imports but a chart you expected is missing, say which exact model
you have — the answer is nearly always the channel list above.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

Select the card root. Not DATALOG, not a single month folder — the whole card.

A ResMed card (AirSense and AirCurve 10/11, S9) carries:

• DATALOG/ — the nightly detail, one folder per date, holding the high-rate waveform
  and event files. This is the bulk of the card and the part that takes time to import.
• SETTINGS/ — your therapy settings as the machine recorded them over time.
• STR.edf — the summary file: one row per night, covering usage, leak, AHI and
  pressure statistics. This is what makes a long history import quickly even when the
  detailed nights are pruned off the card.
• Identification.* — what the machine says it is. This is how the importer knows
  the model.

Practical notes

• The card prunes itself. Machines keep a limited window of detailed nights but a much
  longer summary history. If your charts show a year of trends but only a few months of
  detailed waveforms, that is the card, not the import.
• Upload the whole card each time. Re-uploading is safe — de-duplication skips
  everything already present, and the new nights merge in.
• Don't reorganise the card. Moving files out of DATALOG breaks the date structure
  the importer reads.
• Cards over 5 GB go up in batches; the batches merge automatically.
• Oximetry, where you record it on a compatible setup, arrives with the nightly data
  and appears on its own tiles rather than in the flow charts.

If a card refuses to be recognised, send it through the DropBox fallback rather than
reformatting anything — that is the route that gets a layout looked at.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

A profile holds one person's therapy data: their devices, sessions, charts and
analysis. An account can hold several — a couple who both use CPAP, a family, or a
clinic's patients.

The numbers

• Every account includes two profiles free.
• A third or later profile is a paid add-on. The app shows you the extra monthly amount
  and asks you to confirm before your subscription is revised, and deleting an extra
  profile reduces the billing again automatically.

Why the active profile matters more than anything else
Uploads import into whichever profile is active. This is the single most common cause of
"my data went to the wrong person". The active profile's name is shown at the top right —
check it before you upload, every time. If you get it wrong, cancel the import inside the
fifteen-second window rather than untangling it afterwards.

Worth filling in when you create one
The wizard's CPAP treatment step is optional, but two fields earn their keep:

• Therapy start date — when you first began PAP therapy on any machine. It is what
  lets the analysis tell early adaptation apart from a persistent pattern.
• Untreated AHI, if you know it from your sleep study.

Both can be added later by editing the profile.

Deleting a profile deletes its data. Permanently, including any stored analysis
history for that profile. There is no archive to recover from.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

The short version: take the SD card out of the machine, select the whole card folder,
and let the app do the rest in the background.

1. Make sure the right profile is active. Data always imports into the active
profile — its name shows at the top right. A profile holds one person's therapy data; a
fresh account starts with two included.

2. Put the card in your computer. Card reader or adapter, either way. Do not rename
or move anything on the card, and do not tidy it up first — the folder layout is how the
importer recognises your machine.

3. Open the upload dialog and pick the card root. In the New Look interface that is
the Upload CPAP data icon in the right rail; in Legacy it is the upload section on the
welcome page. The dialog tells you how many files and how much data it found.

4. Upload. Large folders go up in chunks of roughly 95 MB with per-chunk progress.
Leave the tab open until the last chunk lands — navigating away discards the upload, and
the browser will warn you first. Once the upload finishes you can go anywhere; the import
runs on the server.

5. Let the import run. You get a fifteen-second Cancel window right after the last
chunk, and a Cancel button for the whole import after that. A few months of data import in
minutes; a multi-year card can take tens of minutes. You can log out and it keeps going,
and you get an email when it finishes.

Things that trip people up

• One upload at a time per browser. A second tab is blocked on purpose.
• 5 GB per upload. Bigger cards go up in batches — they merge automatically.
• "Everything was a duplicate" is de-duplication working, not a failure.
• Unrecognised folder? The app offers the DropBox fallback instead of importing
  garbage. Use it — that is how unsupported layouts get looked at.

Vendor-specific card layouts have their own topics in Importing Data.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

SomniTalk is the community board for SomniCharts — and for CPAP therapy generally.
It is new, it is in beta, and you are early.

What is here

• Library — a reference shelf. Every article published on the SomniCharts Learn site
  has a topic here: the summary and a link to the full article, with the discussion
  underneath it. Staff post the topics; anyone can reply.
• SomniCharts — the product categories: getting started, importing data, charts and
  statistics, SomniDoc, deep analysis, the mobile app, billing, bug reports and feature
  requests.
• Community — introductions, the first weeks, masks and comfort, data talk, living
  with sleep apnea, and an off-topic lounge.
• SomniTalk — the rules, the FAQ, and a category for telling us the forum itself is
  broken.

What "beta" means here

• Categories, layout and settings may still move. If something looks half-finished, it
  probably is — tell us in Site Feedback.
• Posting requires a verified email address. That is deliberate: it is the cheapest
  spam control that does not put a puzzle in front of a real person.
• Nothing you post here is visible to your SomniCharts account, and nothing in your
  SomniCharts account is visible here. They are separate systems on purpose.

What this board is not

It is not a clinic and it is not a support ticket queue. Nobody here — staff included —
will tell you what your pressure should be. For account, billing or data problems that
need your account looked at, use the in-app feedback button rather than a public thread.

Read the Rules of SomniTalk before your first post, then introduce yourself.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

The lounge is the room with no agenda. Start here.

Everyone on this board has been told about sleep hygiene, and almost nobody has been told
anything that survived contact with a real evening. So: what actually works for you?

Not the poster advice — the specific, slightly embarrassing thing. The alarm that means
"go upstairs" rather than "wake up". Putting the phone charger in the other room. A
boring book kept solely for this purpose. A dog with strong opinions about bedtime.

Anything goes here as long as it stays civil and stays legal. If a thread in the lounge
turns into a genuine therapy question it will get moved to a category where it will be
seen by the people who can help — that is a courtesy, not a telling-off.

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

The equipment is the easy part. The social part catches people out.

Partners get woken by a new noise and a new silence. Adult children worry. Colleagues on a
work trip notice the extra bag. Some people are entirely relaxed about it and some find
it genuinely difficult, and both reactions are ordinary.

Things this thread is for:

• How you told a partner, and what changed for them once you did. (Very often: they sleep
  better than they have in years, and are more enthusiastic about the machine than you.)
• Sharing a room with someone else's machine.
• Whether you mention it at work, and how you handle overnight travel.
• Dating with a CPAP.
• Children and grandchildren asking what it is — the explanation that landed well.
• How you got past the "I look ridiculous" stage, if you had one.

No advice-giving required. This is the thread where the answer is usually just "yes, that
happened to me too".

Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.