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It has now been just about 5 months on cpap. I have attached some recent OSCAR charts, and would love some additional feedback. Symptom wise, I have been so-so. I still have a lot of fatigue, and have seen no let up in the fatigue. I definitely notice the fatigue is much less, especially in the morning with cpap. I have continued to use a cervical collar, and have also begun to use mask tape. I suspect I have UARS tbh, as I fit that demographic much more than OSA. I would like some feedback on the breathing pattern in the 3rd screenshot, as this is what i believe to be REM, and to be happening during these.
Thanks in advance-
Machine: Remediated Dreamstation APAP-CPAP Mode Mask Type: Full face mask Mask Make & Model: Airfit F20 Humidifier: Built In CPAP Pressure: CPAP 15cmH2O CPAP Software: OSCAR
I'd like to see a zoomed in shot of the waveforms before and during the Hypopnea Event please if you could. I would also suggest you to please run the machine in cpap mode set to 15.5cm for a night or two (with EPR turned on fulltime and set to 3) and see if you begin to feel more rested (you're pretty close to running fixed pressure as it is) and I can't tell if EPR is on from these charts.
My EPR is set to 3. I attached two charts from fixed pressure 15.6cm. One night not too bad, the other day was not good at all, one of my worst. I am starting to wonder if I would benefit from bilevel? Any recs as far as adjustments? These higher pressures have also started to cause bad stomach pains in the morning.
Two more nights of data, this time I adjusted 15.8-17.6 with EPR of 3 to see if higher pressures would reduce my flow limitations. I seem to have solved my OAs, however, i am still having flow limitations, and it looks like it is primarily during REM sleep.
I recently purchased a BIPAP (resmed aircurve 10 - saw it super cheap and figured wouldn't hurt to have in case). Do you think I should give this a try? and what pressures should i start at? my only concern switching is I am still in the "monitoring period" of my original APAP until october, but I suppose I could always return it and just manage this on my own.
