i still can't sleep with the device! i am wide awake. Pressure is set at 6 but ramp is set at 5. i don't find the mask uncomfortable but it's the air and the focus on my breathing.
but i still would like to know why Bil thinks my sleep is 'fine' cause it looks very fragmented to me doesn't it? with fragmented i mean going from deep/rem to light/awake.
my doctor wants to put me on antidepressants but i really dont want that
Sorry to ask again but wake/arouse is 2.3 times but my sleep is very fragmented right? like going from deep sleep to light sleep a lot of times? i want to ask my neurologist this but he is on vacation. How do you know i sleep through most CA?
btw did you hear about UARS? isnt it possible i have that?
i tried to sleep with the device for a few days now but i get 0 hours of sleep, last night i tried a sleeping pill my doctor gave me but still 0 result.
I use a white noise device that goes off automatically after 1 hour, since i had to go to work early i removed it after trying it for 2 hours.
The report said i had an AHI of 4.7: both OSA and CSA and 'total AI. but how can i have these events while i was still awake?
how do people even sleep with it? i read that a lot of people with mild sleep apnea never get used to it.
for some reason my sleep study doesn't mention arousels at all.... but please keep in mind that i'm using the device because i suspect UARS, and not that my symptoms are caused by CSA.
about 2 years ago i could use a lowenstein prisma smart max CPAP device for a short time, and i remember that just once i had a AHI of 2 for the duration of 3 hours (thats how long i slept with it). if i really have central sleep apnea then there's no way that AHI would decrease
Yes, it is fine to try the minimum at 4 cm. However since there is some flow resistance in the hose and mask, you may find that a little restricting when you inhale deeply. It can lead to a suffocating feeling. It can do that during the night too if it decides you need no pressure, and going down to 4 cm may wake you up. Especially with the EPR on, more pressure is easier to breathe with than low pressure.
i didn't think about that at all, so i should up it to 6 cm instead of 4 cm? what about the max?
due to problems with DHL i finally got the machine. i set it up and added the settings you gave me, also registered at myair and placed an SD card in the machine. Is it ok if i use start pressure of 4 cm for one or two days? it's the lowest number the machine gives me.
is it true that AHI will likely increase for 1 or 2 weeks because my body/brain needs to get adjusted with the CPAP machine?
oh yeah i put the machine on 'autoset' instead of 'cpap', is that fine?
as RERA events were 0 i think that UARS was never measured during the study and judging by some aspects of my face (underbite and a slight deviated septum)i suspect that the central apnea events are caused by UARS for some reason (if that is medically possible).
During a short CPAP trial (lowenstein prisma smart) i managed to get a AHI of only 3 once as that was the only time i could sleep for like 2 hours). If all my events (AHI 7.2) were central then a CPAP cant lower those events.
