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MD new pressure, low AHIs but late poor quality, help please?
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MD new pressure, low AHIs but late poor quality, help please?
Hello, so from say 11/23- 11/2024 I was on 8-20 pressures, EPAP might have been "ramp only" AHIs <2 often <1 , however brain fog, confusion, have an in-house "titration" (of which I have a copy of, as well as 1st take home version), despite all the wires Sleep Tech had me at 0 AHI, and per sleep pulmonologist, the pressure was to be 6-11, again vague on the EPAP, however, continued poor quality, only initial few hours of solid sleep, asked MD to increase the pressures, so am now at the 8-15, I have the EPAP full at '3' , no ramp .
Based on a posting here folks suggested positional apnea, so I wear a soft collar nightly, can't say that that fixed the quality much, but last week I elevated the head of the bed, and I believe I had just a few nights of sleeping through the night. However despite the quality restorative feelings seeming improved, the constant awakenings continue. I now have many weeks of OSCAR data, but wanted to post 3 nights and see if anyone can help interpret them, and I'm not very fluent in what might be worth a try at this stage, best regards, M.

I have last nights data, as well, which was 1.5 AHI or so, and looks less busy than the 3 I posted here, must admit just looking at the graphs with all the events, when MyAir says "2" good job , probably explains why I feel so poor despite the low AHI, My goal is to get 1 week of restorative/refreshing sleep 7 days in a row ; kind of running out of ideas, other than seeing an ENT


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RE: MD new pressure, low AHIs but late poor quality, help please?
It appears your collar wasn't blocking the chin tuck well enough. Possibly connected to this are the flow limits.

Just myself, I'd stick with data off OSCAR and not rely on the MyAir cheerleader.
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RE: MD new pressure, low AHIs but late poor quality, help please?
OK, i bought 2 other collars today that are less comfortable, but I'm suspecting I may more events late at night, when unconsciously I go into some supine?

I emailed the sleep tech to ask them if they noticed that on the study, but nothing so far

I just look at MyAir, to get the AHI, vs loading up Oscar everyday, thanks
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RE: MD new pressure, low AHIs but late poor quality, help please?
Set Patient View, which is off,  to on (clinical menu, options, essentials, "plus") assuming it's the same on the 11 as on the 10

Which I guess it isn't, since my Oscar shows Essentials, and not patient view - so probably there's a Patient View setting in options you can turn on on 11

and you can read the AHI (as detailed as myair shows it, anyway) on the screen of the machine, without MyAir.
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