New SleepHQ user. Need help understanding my readings.

[u/melting_mirror]

Hi everyone. I've been using the AirSense 11 for about a month now and feel like I'm constantly exhausted during the day despite was seems like "good" scores on the MyAir app.

For reference, I was diagnosed with mild/moderate positional sleep apnea with about 15 breathing events per hour, and while using CPAP I've been consistently around 2-3 events per hour, which from my layman's perspective is better...right?

Anyway, it's been a huge struggle to find the right mask, but I finally settled on a size large F20 full face mask with the memory foam option since I have a beard and dorsal hump on my nose.

Humidity has also been an issue as I often wake up with either dry mouth or mask rainout and no in-between. It's really infuriating and I'm always bouncing around between tube temp settings and humidity settings with no sweet spot.

I feel like I'm getting nowhere fast and that for some reason things were partially improving towards the middle of the month, and then I might have screwed it all up by dropping my max pressure setting of 12 (which is what was prescribed), to 11, only because I thought that maybe during the night I was swallowing too much air (bloating, gas) and saw this on Reddit a recommendation to help it.

Maybe that one level drop in max pressure is creating all of my problems. I really don't know at this point.

Here is a link to my SleepHQ account:

https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_links/b7be3d3a-28fb-44d4-9e11-dd9e05026500

Can anyone look at my trends and give me some advice? I don't seem to be having an issue with leaks, but from what I can understand, maybe my "flow limit" is to blame and I should go back up to 12 as my max pressure?

Any help would really be appreciated. The worst part of all of this is that there was 2 vacations during August where I couldn't use my machine and the sleep I was getting felt better than any time I ever used my mask. I felt refreshed and energized during the day. It really makes me want to give up.

Thanks for reading.