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[CPAP] Not Getting Restful Sleep with CPAP Despite Low AHI.
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Not Getting Restful Sleep with CPAP Despite Low AHI.
Here's my SleepHQ link: https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_l...b7a2c9ea54

I use a ResMed Airsense 10 Autoset. Been having a ton of trouble maintaining sleep over the past year. Mainly just waking up for seemingly no reason in the middle of the night several times. Currently in the process of finding a new sleep medicine physician. Had success on Ambien CR for few months this summer, but the efficacy of that eventually wore off. Second sleep study, which was conducted this past summer, showed a low AHI. Had maybe a dozen RERAs in total over four hours of sleep. Snoring was noted. The sleep study was done without CPAP. I've recently started self-managing. Have had mixed results. I will say this - EPR definitely needs to be on. If it's not on, I feel absolutely dreadful. I wind up mouth breathing. I recently switched to a new mask - an AirFit F30i - which seems to help. I was coming from the ResMed mask that has that gray memory foam. I don't think that one is suited to me well at all, even though it feels great. I'm less interested in comfort right now. I just want to sleep without waking up a million times. I've attached a copy of my sleep study report without my identifying information. Can anyone give me some pointers, please?


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RE: Not Getting Restful Sleep with CPAP Despite Low AHI.
Please read the links in my signature "Download OSCAR" and "Formatting OSCAR Charts". Without data the best one can do is guess.

Post a chart or two per the instructions when you have them.
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RE: Not Getting Restful Sleep with CPAP Despite Low AHI.
(Yesterday, 12:22 PM)PeaceLoveAndPizza Wrote: Please read the links in my signature "Download OSCAR" and "Formatting OSCAR Charts". Without data the best one can do is guess.

Post a chart or two per the instructions when you have them.

Do you want advanced chart order? Or diagnostic? I can do either. I can attach a whole bunch. There's data on SleepHQ, so I figured I'd at least include it.
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RE: Not Getting Restful Sleep with CPAP Despite Low AHI.
This forum is a collection of issues and solutions. Although the SleepHQ link is useful for resolving your current issue, it might not be active later, so the discussion's benefit for our community will be lost.  
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RE: Not Getting Restful Sleep with CPAP Despite Low AHI.
(Yesterday, 12:22 PM)PeaceLoveAndPizza Wrote: Please read the links in my signature "Download OSCAR" and "Formatting OSCAR Charts". Without data the best one can do is guess.

Post a chart or two per the instructions when you have them.

   
   
   
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RE: Not Getting Restful Sleep with CPAP Despite Low AHI.
Given that you have EPR 3 full time on and that your median pressure is 7, I would edit Min pressure to 7.

This will benefit by allowing EPR 3 the ability to actually work always. EPR 3 reduces the min pressure, but the hard physical low limit is 4. Right now starting off, you get equal to EPR 1 until events force pressure up.

See if you can collapse the calendar on OSCAR for next time.
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RE: Not Getting Restful Sleep with CPAP Despite Low AHI.
(Yesterday, 01:09 PM)SarcasticDave94 Wrote: Given that you have EPR 3 full time on and that your median pressure is 7, I would edit Min pressure to 7.

This will benefit by allowing EPR 3 the ability to actually work always. EPR 3 reduces the min pressure, but the hard physical low limit is 4. Right now starting off, you get equal to EPR 1 until events force pressure up.

See if you can collapse the calendar on OSCAR for next time.

Noted on the calendar. I completely forgot. My apologies. I can absolutely set min pressure to 7. Should I leave the max pressure setting where I have it? I have it set to 12.
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RE: Not Getting Restful Sleep with CPAP Despite Low AHI.
12 to 13 should be OK on Max. Let's see how that plays out.
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