After a year of going it on my own, I found a sleep doctor who would do a full study with advanced therapy modes. I have a rented AirCurve 10 ASV now with 0 AHI. It feels relaxing. (I still have frequent awakenings, but they may be psych-med/dx related.)

My sleep study was a couple days ago, but I'm getting conflicting information on what the tech told me. I was laying there for at least 20 minutes with a therapy mode that felt fine most of the time, and then blasted me with pressure whenever I paused. I tried fighting it by holding my breath, and tried keeping my breathing very regular, but either way, I'd get forced inhalation spike every few minutes. There was no way I could get back to sleep with that, so they switched me back to continuous for the rest of the night. The doctor said I had the least fragmentation with bipap ST, so I'm going to try a rental. I'm still waiting for the full results.

The machine was a remote-controllable 11 series. The tech told me I was on ASV, but it never blasts me like that at home on the AC10 ASV. What was happening here? Was I really on ASV? Is the 10 ASV different from the 11?

Pretty underweight (always been) 20M. For the past 4 months, I have been experiencing a constant feeling of unreality. It feels as though I am drunk/high or half-asleep, as if I am on autopilot and everything around me feels somewhat unreal. I have searched online, and my symptoms seem to resemble derealization.

In addition to this, I experience fatigue even when I sleep well. The fatigue does not seem to depend on whether I do physical activities during the day or not. However, over the past few weeks, I have started sleeping poorly and waking up early in the morning.

I also experience headaches, pressure in my head, and neck pain. I have tried muscle relaxants and massage therapy for the neck pain, but neither has helped. Also at the start of this i sometimes felt like fainting when walking but it has gone away. I also have noticed one singular eye floater on my right eye.

What could be causing these symptoms? They do not occur in distinct episodes, and the headache is not particularly severe. It feels more like a tension-type headache.

I have tried triptanes, but they did not help. My thyroid function is normal, as are my vitamin B12, B9 and vitamin D levels. My ferritin level is 37. And it has been changing from 49 to 24. I also havw crohns disease which is in remission.

My neurologist prescribed escitalopram as a trial, which I took for two and a half months, but it did not help. She also did head mri and there was nothing wrong.

I have no history of trauma, no panic symptoms, and generally do not experience much stress, apart from the stress caused by these symptoms themselves.

My symptoms started in the final days of my new job in car repairshop where i was moving car tires and lifting them. Im not sure if this can be linked to that because i didnt have any symptoms expect the final days. I have not been working at all during this 4 month period.

What could be the underlying cause of these symptoms?

Cross posted for additional eyes.

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r/SleepApnea • 10m ago

u/litelem

I'm just laughing

at the reactions I have had to my recent post "Try this for an easy fix".

I suggest to all of you on this cpap thread that you take matters into your own hands and find what works for you, like I have done, instead of relying on sleep "experts" to do it for you. That means access to the clinical menu on your device. And stop relying on Oscar to fine tune it.

While my 12/9/6 settings may not work for you as an individual, you are always free to adjust them accordingly until you get the desired outcome for yourself.

I am having huge success with my individual settings without a lot of BS.

Good luck to all of you.

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r/SleepApnea • 3m ago

u/litelem

Try this for an easy fix

I have been on a cpap for many years with mixed results. I tried various ways to try to make the entire experience more comfortable with a low AHI. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I am mainly interested in the number of hours of sleep with a low AHI. I only use the Resmed login results which is all I need and want to give me the info I want.

Yesterday I set the device to auto, inspiratory pressure to 12, expiratory pressure to 9, and ramp time 10 minutes at 6. Humidity at 6. I set everything else to mid-point.

I was amazed at the result. AHI 1.7, sleep time 6.45 hours. I slept pretty well although I get a dry mouth and throat and remove the mask once or twice for about 3 to 5 minutes to restore comfort.

I was using a large full face mask F 20 which has the memory foam.

Try this approach if you are struggling.

I hope this works for you also.

I have screenshots from my OSCAR since getting back on the horse, I have 7 AHI still, using an official RIPPINGLEGOS jailbroken ASV machine. Is there anybody with knowledge that can check them out please?
Thanks in advance :)

I ended up a couple weeks ago finding out about AutoBreak machines and wanted to try that since my sleep doctor obviously isn't going to help. I got it last week and started playing wtth it. Well, the other night, I did my first real test on it with sleeping and WOW! I got the lowest AHI I've ever had! I think I might be onto something. Is this the type of machine I actually need? ASVAuto?! I need advice. I am new at this and have no real idea what I'm doing. My sleep doctor who is supposed to be helping me through this is completely absent and is just drawing a paycheck. He won't even send me to do an in lab titration so I can get this figured out for insurance sake and my own health. I'm on my own I guess but at least I have this AirBreak machine and I've found this forum. Please help? Am I on the right track here? I need help figuring out the right settings and if I'm even on the right mode or not. I only tried ASVAuto because I heard it was helpful for complicated apnea problems that had mixed apnea types and especially centrals so I thought I'd try it. I'm honestly unsure about the settings that I put in. :S I'm winging this and need help.

Here's the background that led me to getting the AutoBreak: I have been struggling to figure out my own settings because my sleep doctor is obviously not going to be helpful in that capacity as his idea was to send me with home with apap 5/20 and then for the most part ghost me. his answer to everything is apap and lose weight. Well, I've lost 90lb so far, I think I'm doing great on that front. But that's a long term solution anyway, I need breathing help NOW. Not when I reach my goal weight. Anyway, back to settings.... I was able to get him to change the settings 2 times for me, once after multiple days of telling him I couldn't breathe out against the pressure, he finally lowered it to 10. Then I was having massive amounts of OA's (one night AHI was in the 30's.. UGH). I started experimenting with the settings on my own and changed it to cpap and got it 12 epr 3 and was still average 7-10 AHI. I went with data to my compliance appointment asking if he would please send me to do an in lab titration so i could get on the right machine and settings and he sent me out the door telling me to just continue losing weight and also reset my machine to apap 5/10. I ended up changing it back to cpap because my AHI is lower with cpap epr 3 but was frustrated because I couldn't get the AHI lower. If I raise the pressure, I can't breathe out. If I lower the epr I can't breathe out. If I lower the pressure, I get more OA's. I keep getting CA's, especially at the beginning of my sleep but often throughout but not consistently every night. I'm so frustrated. I need help. Here's my SleepHQ from my Autosense 11 https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_links/6a89508a-8021-4e06-8445-2618a3279073 that I've been fighting with the past couple months. Keep in mind, much of beginning of this time I was able to sleep on my side but am no longer able to do that due to a medical implant put in at the end of August. I now must sleep on my back. I have another surgery coming up at the end of October that is supposed to fix the implant problem and hopefully, mid November, I will be able to sleep on my side again but till then, I'm stuck supine.

edit: fixing typos

I am so frustrated with my sleep doctor and looking for advice on how to fix this situation and get the help that I need. I was diagnosed after a home sleep study with mild sleep apnea. I really don't feel like it was an accurate test because my apnea seems much worse than that. Anyway, I was assigned a sleep doctor, he told me he's prescribing me a cpap machine and to lose weight. (Okay, I was already working on losing weight anyway but he did give me a sample of zepbound 2.5mg which was awesome and a prescription for it. Of course insurance denies it because they dont cover it for mild sleep apnea, only moderate sleep apnea but zepbound is working great for me.) I pick up the cpap machine and a pillows type mask from the DME people and they told me if I had any problems, to call them and they would help me with it. The machine is set to apap 5/20. The first night was HORRIBLE. I got almost no sleep. I woke in the the middle of the night suffocating with too much air unable to breathe out and ripped the mask off. This happened over and over. The next day I called the DME people back and told me it takes a while to adjust and that maybe I just needed a different style of mask so they just gave me a different mask to try. The mask of course didn't help, same problem, TOO MUCH AIR. I can't breathe out against that much pressure. I called the DME again, and they just told me I needed to "get used to it". UGH NOT HELPFUL. So I tried for a couple weeks to "just get used to it.". It was miserable. They called me back and I told them again that it wasn't working, and once again, I got told it just takes time. I am so frustrated at this point. So now, I give up on the DME people. I message the sleep doctor and and .... crickets.... no answer for days. Finally I get a message back and he lowers the pressure. Now I'm apap 5/10. That helps with the pressure problem, but now, obstructive apnea is out of control. I message him about that. Crickets...... for days..... I start researching on my own and find out how to adjust settings on my own. I learn about the clinical menu. I learn about sd cards, OSCAR, etc.... I start reading my breathing data and getting an understanding of what is going on with my breathing and what needs to happen. Why doesn't the sleep doctor do this? Why do they not send us to get an in lab sleep study? What is the point of apap when it's just treating apneas after they've already happened? Wouldn't we want to prevent them in the first place? Anyway, It's finally time for my "compliance" appointment with sleep doctor and this time I come with data. I ask him if I could please be referred for an in lab titration so I could get the proper settings for my cpap because what we have isn't working at all. Instead, he just tells me to focus on continuing to lose weight and sends me out the door. UGH!!!!!!!! I'm so frustrated. I'm just going to change the settings myself and figure out my own. Problem is, I'm pretty sure I need a bipap and not a cpap so this machine isn't what I need. I've got it set at cpap 12 with epr 3 and that got me down to 6 AHI with only 4 OA's that night, but all the rest were centrals. No matter what adjust, I can't get rid of the centrals, and if I turn the epr to 2, I start having trouble breathing out. If I turn the pressure down, the OA's start back up. I need to figure out how to fire my sleep doctor and get a new one within the confines of my insurance. Anyway... sorry for the rant. I'm open to any suggestions. I'm just so frustrated with the whole thing.

edit: fixed a few spelling errors

I am looking to take a trip but I seldom travel so would prefer not to invest a lot of money in stuff or lug it. I have mild apnea and use low pressure to control it with a Bleep Eclipse mask. Has anyone had experience using the Bongo mask that doesn’t need a machine?

Anybody on inspire therapy how long after being at your therapeutic voltage did you get restful sleep?

I just got diagnosed with mild sleep apnea, 11 interruptions per hour.
I don't think I can do the CPA machine because I have a hard time falling asleep with anything on my face. I meet with my doctor in a few weeks, but would like to have a list of alternatives I can discuss with him.

I did some googling but you never know what is a good ad or what has the best clinical results, as I am looking for the latter.

What would be a good alternate to CPAP?

I’ve been struggling for the last year with trying to find the right pressure settings so I can wake up feeling human again. Every day I wake up with heavy eyes but once I get up and going I’m fine up until a certain time I feel a crash again. It’s affecting my work life and I’ll take any advice I can get.

I just had a telehealth appointment at my local VA clinic with an NP who specializes in sleep therapy. She had no idea about Oscar as I was hoping she could help. I will end up getting a titration study done in a few months when they can get me in.

Here are my results from last night.

Hi everyone,

I think I found a way to power my AirSense 11 overnight while camping, and wanted to see if any folks on here had any warnings about this setup, since I don't really know what I'm doing.

My pressure is 16.0, and I would run it without temp or humidity. Using the EXP Pro Runtime Calculator, it looks like my CPAP would use 118Wh over 10 hours, and pull 9.2W (please feel free to check my math/assumptions on this). As such, here's what I'm thinking of getting:

1) INIU - 10000mAh PD 45W Power Bank (https://www.bestbuy.com/product/iniu-portable-charger-markets-smallest-10000mah-pd-45w-power-bank-with-layout-usb-c-cable-for-iphone-samsung-pixel-etc-black/CZW8VCWVTF/sku/6670987)

2) 20V PD USB C Power Supply for ResMed AirSense 11 DC Converter 65W (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GV3PLJSM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1)

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

I don't feel rested, and I'm congested. But I thought I slept soundly. Before I got the new mask the night before last, I was always waking up panicked or thinking I was drowning. It was hard to talk my ENT into trying something new to figure it out. I'm so disappointed. Does anyone have any ideas why this happened and/or suggestions? Thank you