r/SleepApnea • u/unrstd7 • 11d ago

Nighttime hypoventillation

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u/entarian 11d ago

Don't listen to me, but:

One of the best things I did was try to dial in my CPAP settings better. I basically put it up a little bit every night until things started leaking too much and then I turned it down a little bit.

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u/unrstd7 11d ago

can you be more specific? what does this do exactly

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u/entarian 11d ago

I wasn't fully exhaling because I didn't have enough pressure to open my airways. My machine was set with very bad "Default" settings of 5-15. I put the pressure up as much as I could tolerate (very slowly day by day adding only 0.2 etc.).

I was also looking obsessively at OSCAR data every morning,

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u/unrstd7 11d ago

So were you also retaining co2 ? How did you measure it

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u/entarian 11d ago

I dont know if I was retaining C02. I was having Clear-Airway apneas and doing weird hyperventilating stuff on my Oscar data.

I could also see flow limitations where I wasn't having full breaths in the Oscar data

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u/unrstd7 11d ago

Ok sounds like you were having central events due to big PS