DaydreamBeliever

Hi everyone,

I was diagnosed with sleep apnea over ten years ago. I am tall and relatively thin and my jaw recedes a bit. I suspect I have had apnea my whole life (slept through class/driving) and CPAP seems to help. I was doing routine titration studies but my pressure number was always around 10 each time. I realized you can put the machines on auto adjust with a floor and ceiling value, so I’ve been doing this for many years, without sleep studies— mainly because of the cost (my insurance is horrible as I am self employed). The machine averages the same pressure around 10 cm2 and I put the floor and cieling at 8 and 16 respectively.

Okay, that’s the back story, here’s my question. My AHI averages around 7 most days, 6 on good days and 8 plus on bad days (11 one night recently!). I have experimented with using my mouthpiece simultaneously with my CPAP and I don’t see a pattern of making it worse or better.

Any thoughts on how bad this AHI is with CPAP treatment - should I get another (what feels like a useless) titration study?

Can one determine how bad their baseline apnea is (without treatment) by looking at their AHI with treatment? Thoughts with my numbers?

Thanks.