Cpap Oscar data help

Hello! I have been using oscar to collect data on my resmed 11 for about a month now and I have taken screen shots of my last nights usage. I was using my cpap and having no issues for a few weeks prior to starting oscar and I started because I felt like I was having some issues with my cpap now. Waking up a lot more during the night, waking up tired, waking up in the middle of the night and wanting to take my cpap off. I use a full face mask, had been taping my mouth shut because I would wake up super dry and sore- even with the humidity up. I have bought a nose pillow type mask but have not used it yet. Any insights would be greatly appreciated- I just want to sleep well and be rested!

I am not so sure it is a good idea to use tape under a full face mask. It is better to use it with a nasal or nasal pillow type mask. I do it with 1" 3M micropore tape, and 4" Mefix tape overtop of that. I am a determined mouth breather. Most people get away with just the 1" 3M micropore.

I have my machine set up in Auto Humidity control which is available when you use a heated hose. The temperature is set at 27 C or 81 F, and I have no issues with dryness. You can prewarm your machine with the User menu. It takes about 15 minutes before you start the machine.

Your ramp start pressure seems to be very low at 4 cm. I would suggest setting the Ramp start pressure at 7 cm, and also set the minimum pressure for the machine at 7 cm. If that does not help, you may also want to consider changing your machine to fixed pressure mode (CPAP). You then have to set the pressure by trial and error, but it looks based on your OSCAR chart you could get away with 8 to 9 cm, and perhaps would end up with a lower AHI.

Hope that helps some. Any questions, just ask.

Hello! Thanks for the reply- I actually put my min up to 7 last night but haven't looked at the data. Unfortunately without the ramp up the higher pressure is too much all at once for me and I feel like I cant breathe properly and have a panic attack. It takes me a long time to fall asleep so by the time I'm actually sleeping the ramp is over. I was supposed to be getting a heated tube with mine but they never got any in stock for me. I can actually still breathe around the tape if I need to, but when I dont tape I get very dry and sore throat- with the tape I don't which is more comfortable to me- I'm a natural nose breather but when I lay down my acid reflux gets into my nose and causes it to swell making it difficult to nose breathe (thus a full face mask). I'm hoping with the increased pressure I will notice a difference. I have a cpap sleep study in two weeks so I'm sure they will give some insight too!

I haven't seen a feature to auto heat while I've fiddled around with the settings 😕 maybe I'm blind lol. I take gaviscon before bed and it does help a lot but it wears off after a few hours- would be nice if it lasted all night! I know everyone feels different with cpap, lower pressure can feel like you're not getting air and high pressure can too, it's very odd. I tend to feel less anxiety at lower pressure- opposite of you! Hopefully putting it to 7 will help, I have thought about getting a tube cover as well to see if that helps.

I will check tonight to see if I can find it on there. I will also look into getting a heated tube as it might help as you said. Thank you:)