vandownbytheriver wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:44 am

Excellent! Side-sleeping FTW.

What's surprising to me is that I'm not actually side-sleeping that much more; I've always a side + back sleeper, and I still am; with the nasal pillow, I can start on my side and then roll over as usual, but my events are far reduced now compared to before.

Just posting a little follow-up three weeks on... frustrated with trying unsuccessfully to side-sleep comfortably with an F30i mask, I asked my DME to send me an N30i mask instead, and started using it last week... to startlingly improved results. Not only do I find it more comfortable (for side sle...

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That makes perfect sense. Thanks!

Well if it never goes above 13 cm then it isn't blasting you at higher pressures....is it? Then reducing the max pressure to 15 isn't going to do a damn thing if the machine never goes above 13? Well, what prompted me to start posting to begin with wasn't just the CA events; it was also that on nig...

That's soooo helpful and encouraging. Time to run down to the pharmacy and pick up those patience pills!

Would it be premature to knock down the max pressure setting from 20 to, say, 15 to prevent it from blasting me so much here and there?

Remember....your primary goal is "get decent, solid sleep"...because without sleep none of this data really amounts to much. Awake/arousal flagged events cloud the data reported and makes it hard to know if what we are seeing is real or not. This is such a helpful reminder -- thank you! The fact is...

SleepHQ has a free version that you can post a link to the results and then we (and other forum members) can zoom in on those flagged events in the flow rate graph to check your respiration pattern to see if you were awake or asleep when those events got flagged. Of course, I can zoom in myself too...

Or had....I think he edited his original text because in it he mentioned turning EPR off but struggled to sleep and breathe (big surprise he had a problem moving air with that minimum of 4 :lol: ) but I don't see that mentioned when I looked back to copy/paste that part of his text. I am betting my...

I suspect that is what you are seeing with those little clusters of CAs/centrals....awake breathing irregularities getting flagged. Using SleepHQ we can confirm or dispel that idea. If for sure asleep then we have one talk but I bet that the bulk of those CAs/centrals are going to be awake or arous...

A range of 4-20 is not a 'prescription'... that's the default the machine ships with. I guess this passes for sleep doctoring these days, what with home sleep studies and no lab time. Yes, I figured as much. My ENT is attentive overall, but he's not a sleep specialist. So my opinion (not a doctor),...

I have had a little intermittent nasal congestion in my left nostril.

Wikipedia says my city's elevation is 486 ft (148 m).

I'm not taking any medications.

Yes, I was woken for awhile at around 4:40am on Friday night/Saturday early morning.

I don't know anything (yet) about SleepHQ.

Sorry, I thought I had the permissions setting right on those images, but I was mistaken. Fixed now!

First of all: thanks to everyone for this fantastic forum. I'm a new CPAP user, having been diagnosed with OSA and an AHI of 8 about two months ago. I'm geeking out over the data that OSCAR shows me from my ResMed Airsense A10 AutoSet machine, but more importantly, CPAP is already helping me sleep b...