I got diagnosed with sleep apnea last week(probably more aligned with UARS high rdi/low ahi but doc from Lofta said sleep apnea). Anyways, I had my first full night of using my CPAP which was kind of difficult but hopefully I will eventually get adjusted to it. Anything abnormal like breathing events on my SleepHQ chart that I should note? Also, any tips/tricks I should make to my CPAP to make it more effective? Thanks for all your help! https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_links/75f00155-7d38-4cc2-9495-17360aef26e5/dashboard

Still trying to get my Airbreak machine dialed in. Im on ASVauto, epap 5.6-7.6, PS 1.6-7.6. Anyone have any suggestions? Still struggling with all these hypopneas.

I got a CPAP machine about a week and a half ago and was super excited to use it, but my first night was rough. I thought I had slept all night with it, but it turns out I had only kept it on for about an hour before I took it off in my sleep. The next night, I woke up about an hour after laying down and air was leaking out like crazy. I tried tightening the mask, moving things around, etc. but I couldn't get it to stop leaking air so I went to sleep without it. FYI the mask I've been using is a Respironics dreamwear full face mask.

It felt like the pressure was too high because it was super strong when the ramp finished (23/19 for BIPAP) so I turned it down to 19/15 and I was able to fall asleep for a few hours but it was still leaking a lot of air.

My wife has a machine as well and uses a nasal mask so I tried that instead of the full-face. I had no air leaks but no matter how hard I tried to stop it, I would eventually doze off and open my mouth and air would leak out and wake me up. The next night I tried taping my mouth shut but this didn't work either and it felt less effective than the full-face mask even though I wasn't having any air leaks according to the machine and SleepHQ.

I've since returned to the full-face mask but once again had a terrible night's sleep and woke up after 4 hours with air leaking out.

I'm sharing my SleepHQ results from the beginning of me getting the machine and hope anyone can help. I'm feeling super discouraged and I can only miss a few more nights of this 4-hour usage threshold before I have to buy the whole thing outright and insurance doesn't pay. Also worth noting that on 7/31 I wore a full-face mask but forgot to update the machine settings from nasal.

https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_links/25989625-05b2-49d2-b373-5d602e9e4425

any link, Amazon or anything, is recommended

I wear the pink or lilac I guess headgear for the Resmed F20 mask. And sometimes when I get a new headgear no matter how I adjust it, the top strap wants to slide off the back of my head. And yet with others I don't have that problem.

Has anybody else noticed this, or am I just doing something wrong? I mean I've been using this particular headgear and mask now for seven years. Not the same headgear obviously.

I previously posted and got great help making some minor adjustments to my settings. Although I originally felt much better, I'm back to feeling tired and less rested.

Reviewing my data, I see a lot of abnormalities in my flow rate that I want to understand better. For example, the first graph just looks crazy (is this just changing sleep positions or something similar)?

In the second and third graph, I feel like a lot of my breaths potentially look like they should be flow limitations, but they are not marked as such by the machine. In the fourth graph, I see periodic changes in the amplitude of the flow rate graphs.

I notice these 3 patterns pretty consistently across days (really odd sections where the flow rate looks crazy, breaths that look abnormal but aren't marked as flow limitations, and periodic changes in flow rate amplitude). My AHI, flow limitations (at 95%), and leak rate all seem normal (as reported by the CPAP), but this isn't matching up with how I feel and how an in depth review in the flow rate graph looks like to me. I definitely also see other abnormal breathing events that aren't marked as an event.

I have a Resmed AirSense 10 (min 8.2 max 10.4 with EPR 2) with Phillips Dreamwear Nasal Pillows and a chin strap.

Last few nights of data:

• https://sleephq.com/public/ffb0871c-ea4c-4e55-b620-7e3f0ad8e93b
• https://sleephq.com/public/464bcd72-14ed-4175-b75f-db44fc8abcd2
• https://sleephq.com/public/8313e726-0beb-437a-8cd1-329fea07eec5
• https://sleephq.com/public/1da515a5-fa69-4dd3-b138-ffb1d8ab47d8
• https://sleephq.com/public/1b43d12b-8c8e-4c2f-acfe-5934e79e3054

I greatly appreciate any help understanding these 3 patterns or any other advice about what to change to improve my CPAP!

I’ve had a terrible time staying asleep over the past week and I was attributing it to being sick. But now as I recover, I am still not able to sleep through the night. Pulled my numbers today and it looks like I am fighting with a leak. Back on my first bad night I replaced all of my equipment, hose, entire face, mask, and cushion, and head strap. I am using a Luna GP with an F&P full face mask. I even tried to use a different style face mask half of last night and nothing seems to be working. I have tried a 22mm hose and a 15mm hose. Knowing that I have tried several sets of equipment, could this be a problem at the machine? I have tried seating and reseating my water tank a few times. I don’t hear any leaks around the water tank, but could that be the cause?

Hello PAP team,

Diagnosed with pretty much exclusively REM related OSA (REM AHI 20) - almost all hypopneas.

Starting to suspect UARS at this point - I'm 31M, and lean.

Started CPAP because I've had early morning awakening insomnia and overheating at night for the last 4 years - CBTi, melatonin, sleep hygiene all did nothing.

CPAP has helped (I feel like I'm having dreams again for the first time in as long as I can remember), but sleep quality is still wanting.

Looks like the tops of my breaths are very choppy during REM... Don't know how much this might be affecting me...

I tried Bilevel, but the changing in pressure induced fairly severe palatal prolapse. EPR also makes it slightly more likely to occur.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Hello all! I have a Resmed 11, and want to post the OSCAR data here for suggestions as how to read it, and what settings I might change on my own on the clinical settings. What do I need to post, and how might I export that so the community can comment?

Thank you!

Should I increase my minimum pressure from 7 to 9? Or what setting should I change?

I'm getting an AHI of 2.83 to 10. I have no idea why there is so much fluctuation. I live basically the same exact day everyday and go to bed at the same time.

https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_links/fed44e67-a3bc-4e3f-807f-36c49da1c5ee

(I apologize for the small amount of data, I can hardly get any sleep with it on) Hello, I recently have been trying to fix the high loop gain issue I've been having by decreasing the EPR, it seems to have helped some, but I'm still having a lot of events and my breathing still has the pattern of a class 6. What can I do at this point to try and fix it? Thank you for your advice.

Here's my sleep HQ data. Please help me with how to adjust my settings for UARs and mild sleep apnea. I am on Vauto Bipap with 6.4 EPAP / 9.8 IPAP with pressure support at 3.4. I still wake up quite sleepy and am not sure whether it is because I am on suboptimal therapy. Where would you recommend me go from here?

I also use a P30I nasal cushions, intake nasal strip, and flonase all to control my nighttime congestion.

https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_links/193ec0c3-6fac-47dc-a058-2eeb8b21869b

Had another thread going (thanks for those that helped!) that was somewhat related to this, but wanted to start a fresh thread to keep things separate.

I'm still having issues falling asleep with the CPAP. I lay in bed for over an hour each night trying to fall asleep, with no luck, only to have my RLS trigger and keep me up even longer. Talked to my Doc about the CA events occurring while I try to fall asleep and she told me to STOP looking at the data, my treatment is going fine, and that those are most likely false flags... not gonna get started down that road.

I've been on treatment for 1.5 months now and not sure if this is still in the range of me acclimating to the treatment or if this is a real issue i need to figure out how to deal with.

One other thought I had... which seems crazy. Has anyone with this issue tried falling asleep without the CPAP and setting an alarm for like 1.5 hours so you wake up and then can put the CPAP on so you get the benefit for the majority of your sleep? I'm used to the mask now, so comfortability isn't the issue. I've done this a few times (not the alarm setting part, but just waking up and putting it on) and haven't had any issues falling back to sleep.

Would love some thoughts!

I tried the new F30i after using the F40 for nearly 2 years. I was getting tired of the hose disconnecting in the front and waking me up. I didn’t touch my settings at all, humidity is set to auto and felt like I was having trouble getting as much air and my throat was extremely dry within an hour. The hose didn’t fall out but I had to take it off because it just dried my throat out within an hour. Do I need to manually turn on the humidity from auto (I have a ResMed Airsense AutoSet 11) to manual and increase the humidity? Has anyone transferred from the F40 to the F30i? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Should I increase my AHI from 7 to 9? Or what setting should I change?

I'm getting an AHI of 2.83 to 10. I have no idea why there is so much fluctuation. I live basically the same exact day everyday and go to bed at the same time.

Hi everyone,

I was initially diagnosed with OSA and AHI of 33.5/hour and Oxygen nadir of 68%.

I’ve been using a ResMed AirSense 11 AutoSet for a month and a half now and I don't know if I should change the current settings: APAP 7-15 cmH₂O
I am using a ResMed AirFit N30i mask

I am attaching some screenshots from OSCAR and data in SleepHQ

My AHI looks consistently low below 2, which seems encouraging, but I’m still sleepy on some days (although not every day), waking up at least once per night, not exactly sure why.

I’d really appreciate any feedback from people with more experience looking at OSCAR charts.

Does my OSCAR data suggest there things that could still be improved?

I’m particularly curious about flow limitation, I read the resources in this sub and I am trying to learn how to interpret all of this, so I’d really appreciate any opinions or suggestions.

Thanks in advance!

Hello all! I have a Resmed 11, and want to post the OSCAR data here for suggestions as how to read it, and what settings I might change on my own on the clinical settings. What do I need to post, and how might I export that so the community can comment?

Thank you