Flow limitations 199 detected please help!

I started the APAP therapy a week ago and just took a look at my data with OSCAR. Well, I doesn't understand a lot, but I find the amount of flow limitations detected quite concerning. Since my research shows that doctors don't care about anything else than AHI I hope someone can tell me if I have to be concerned with there flow limitations and if so what I can do about it. Since I am new here I hope I uploaded the screenshots of OSCAR correctly. Please tell me if anything else is needed. Thank you so much in advance!

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I started the APAP therapy a week ago and just took a look at my data with OSCAR. Well, I doesn't understand a lot, but I find the amount of flow limitations detected quite concerning. Since my research shows that doctors don't care about anything else than AHI I hope someone can tell me if I have to be concerned with there flow limitations and if so what I can do about it. Since I am new here I hope I uploaded the screenshots of OSCAR correctly. Please tell me if anything else is needed. Thank you so much in advance!

Your Flow Limitations graph is not visible on the posted OSCAR reports. It is below the visible graphs. The graphs can be moved up and down the report. I see the 199 Flow Limitation events which is something my APAP machine does not show in Events. My OSCAR has a graph and a number that is like a score to show the flow limitation level. Since I have chronic flow limitations my events would probably be a large number like yours, but I do not know what your APAP machine considers as an EVENT, that is, how limited must the airflow be before it registers it as an event. Your flow limitations graph may give you a better indication of your flow limitations than the events. My flow limitation graph is different each sleep session and is never flat which would be no limitations.

Flow limitations are a hot topic for CPAP users and those who give CPAP advice. If their AHI is decent, the next thing to improve is flow limitations. I have my EPR set to 2. I will take Sierra's advice and increase it to 3 which requires going into the Clinical Menu on my machine. You may have access to EPR settings on your machine but if not, do a net search for instructions on how to access pressure changes and EPR changes for your brand/model of CPAP machine. You will need to get into the Clinical Menu also to set pressure min. and max.

Your air pressure settings are surprisingly low. Do you have the report from your sleep study? It shows the pressure levels used to stop apneas. Did you DME (supplier of the machine) or a technician set the pressures or are those the default settings of a new machine? Your min. 4cm is as low as my machine goes. Ask whoever set your machine if that is the default or a prescribed setting for you. If no one sets the machine is has default pressures.

4 cm min. and 20 cm max. are the lowest and highest pressures of my machine. Your settings look very low and I see your pressure is maxing out to 8 cm, so at least increase the maximum level it can reach. The goal is to have it just high enough that the pressure graph does not show it maxing out. This is never perfect, maxing out may still happen at times. It is suggested pressure changes be done in small increments over several sleep sessions, eg .5 to 1 per adjustment.

Search Flow Limitations OSCAR for articles on how to interpret them on OSCAR. I have high flow limitations for reasons that I think I cannot change. Mine go up and down as does the effects on my airways due to my allergies. What I pay much attention to is the Leak Rate.

I have used an APAP machine for 17 years. I am not an expert in therapy but have been using and studying OSCAR for a few years. OSCAR can be overwhelming to me....so much data!