Over 60 events per hour with cpap?

I plan on contacting my sleep doctor over this, but the last two nights my events per hour were 41.4 and 64.4.

I do struggle with allergy related nasal congestion and in spite of both zrytec and flonase, I was still quite stuffed up the last two nights, but I have a full face mask and I would have thought breathing out of my mouth would have mitigated that stuffiness.

Tomorrow will be exactly one week since starting Cpap, my events per hour on my sleep study were 65.5 so it's certainly discouraging to see events just as high as my home sleep study was.

Up until the last two nights I had been averaging a low of 6.2 events and a high my first night of 17.0 average around 7 events, so never have I gotten under the 5.0 goal for it to be considered normal, but prior two nights aside it's been much better than the over 60 pre cpap therapy.

I have an airfit F30i full face mask and a resmed 11 auto and the sleep clinic decided to try an initial setting of 5 through 15.

Thanks for any advice everyone, the last two nights have been so discouraging right when I thought I was turning a corner. As a final note I did have a few beers last night and the night before (a few as in 3). but stopped a few hours prior to going to sleep both nights and I know alcohol can effect cpap therapy, but to the point of plus 40 one night and plus 60 the following night?!?

What is the event category breakdown of your AHI?
What machine?
What are all of the settings?
Did you sleep well last night or have a restless night?

I have an airsense 11 auto.

Sleep doctor's initial settings are between 5 and 15 pressure and my mask is a full face mask f30i.

Not sure how to check the event breakdown. I have heard a lot about an app called Oscar, but haven't downloaded it yet.

I get the numbers from. The resmed "myair" app not sure how accurate it is or isn't.

Knowing the event category breakdown is critical.
It is available on the machine's LCD screen in the sleep report and/or software (OSCAR) use.
OSCAR is software that you use on a computer. It is not an app nor will it work on a phone.
To use OSCAR there has to be a SD card in the machine during use.
Does your machine have a SD card already in it? If not, get one..

The MyAir app pretty much shows what the machine will show....so it will be accurate as long as the machine is accurate.

To see the breakdown on the machine's screen, first go into the clinician's menu:

https://www.apneaboard.com/resmed-airse ... setup-info

Different presentation here:

Plug in machine and turn the Push Dial until the device is showing the Home position (Home Icon illuminated). In Home position, press the Push Dial and the Setup Menu buttons down simultaneously for 3 seconds. The clinician menu will appear. Select parameter(s) you wish to modify with the Push Dial (push down to select, turn to modify). When done, select the Home choice again from the displayed menu, push down the Push Dial again and the adjustment is saved.

Also, if you google Airsense 11 clinical guide, you'll find a pdf of the manual, with information about the clinician menu starting on 15.

Once you're in the clinician menu, you want to change Patient View to Advanced and save the change.

Oscar is great, and I hope you can use it. Once you have an SD card in your machine, you could also sign up for a free account at SleepHQ -- https://home.sleephq.com/. You can then share a link to your data.

Just to clarify the data options:

- MyAir is Resmed's consumer software. It's an app for your phone or tablet and displays only summary data. Plus it will give you some "Great job!" type messages that can actually be highly misleading. Best avoided. MyAir receives data from your machine via a cellular phone connection.

- Oscar is a program that needs to be downloaded to your computer. It needs a "real" computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) and will not run on a phone or tablet. Oscar provides an extremely detailed display of your night's sleep on a breath-by-breath basis. Oscar is completely free.

- SleepHQ is a web-based program that is accessible on any device with a browser, including phones and tablets. No need to download anything, but you need to upload your data to SleepHQ's cloud server (it's quite easy). SleepHQ is free, but there is also a paid membership which gives greater capabilities and access to the SleepHQ community perks. Like Oscar, SleepHQ provides a breath-by-breath analysis.

For sharing your data on forums like this, I strongly prefer SleepHQ. Oscar allows you to generate an image, but unless you have things set up properly it will be of limited value. SleepHQ allows you to generate an anonymous link so that people can view your data directly and zoom / scroll through it.

Respirator99 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 29, 2024 9:20 pm

For sharing your data on forums like this, I strongly prefer SleepHQ. Oscar allows you to generate an image, but unless you have things set up properly it will be of limited value. SleepHQ allows you to generate an anonymous link so that people can view your data directly and zoom / scroll through it.

Yes. It's so easy.

As an experienced user, I will continue to use OSCAR. But, newbies can get up and running quickly with a free account at SleepHQ.com.

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. Not sure why I referred to Oscar as an app. I knew it was a computer program. I'm fairly tech savvy and know better. Let's call it a 40 plus and 60 plus events per hour in consecutive nights related brain glitch.

I'm going to look into downloading it on my computer and will look into sleephq as well. I'm pleased to say that last night I had my lowest yet number of events at 5.1 and that I believe I figured out what the problem was.

I think the intense nasal congestion played a role in my two days of really high numbers, but in addition to that I believe I was over tightening the mask. I had it so tight that it would consistently leave indention on my face that would take a few hours to go away.

After watching a few videos on YouTube I didn't tighten it nearly as much and seemed to have the best seal with the lowest mask leakage since starting and my nasal congestion was cleared up which allowed me to breathe out of both my nose and mouth.

We will see what subsequent days lead to, but I'm back to bring optimistic overall.

JennaNicole105 wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:14 am

Not sure why I referred to Oscar as an app.

It's perfectly fine to shortform computer (application) programs as apps, no matter what the platform (Desktop, Web, Mobile). People within the industry have been doing it for years, long before the mobile industry.

A simple Windows search, verifies app is a common term for OSCAR, and all applications:

JennaNicole105 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 29, 2024 6:55 am

I have an airfit F30i full face mask and a resmed 11 auto

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Okay so last night I had 7.9 following my 5.1 the night before.Not over tightening the mask has made all the difference, well that and not being stuffed up. I tend to be stuffy on a fairly regular basis, so that might be an ongoing issue at times, but I'm no longer panicking about super high numbers.

I will over the next day or so still talk to my sleep doctor about the possibility of changing my pressure slightly, if they think it might lead to even lower numbers. I'm also going to look into getting Oscar today for my computer and the sleepHQ site.

Thanks again all.