NiyaNiya

Thank you for your response, it really is a big help!!

I believe I do have a Airsense 10, sorry. I'll try the Autoset with those settings.

Sometimes after sleeping for 8 hours (with the machine), I am tired after being awake for 2 hours, is this normal for someone with sleep apnea? Also, this may sound weird but sometimes with a pressure higher than 5, it almost feels like my head is a balloon being inflated but the mask lol, I find that 5 is the most comfortable when falling asleep – It almost feels like the mask isn't there.

I sleep on my stomach and side, so about twice a night I wake up for about 5 seconds to readjust and fall back asleep.

I've recently completed two sleep studies and received my pressure number: 9cmH20. I bought a ResMed s9 on craigslist.

This setting is causing me issues. I wake up every three hours running it. The doctor told me that my AHI was 12. I've fiddled with the clinician settings while using 9cmH20, to my knowledge there are no other magic settings to make this pressure work for me. I have a standard and heated tube . Full, nasal and pillow masks. My AHI is usually 0.5-1.2 with these settings. I changed the pressure to 7.4cmH20 (I may have over did it), but I finally slept through the night, AHI 0.0-0.2. I sleep between 6-7 hours a night.

The issue is that I'm exhausted after 6 hours of being awake. My job requires concentration or else I'm extremely inefficient and unproductive. I've recently beat depression and anxiety, so I don't think it's that. My blood results have only showed a vitamin D deficiency, which I'm treating but still nothing.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I just don't want to be exhausted (near fainting) after 4 hours anymore!

These are my sleepyhead results on 7.4cmH20, 7.8cmH20 and 9cmH20.