Relatively new cpap user looking for any advice

[Narcil]

so everything after 2.45 is awake breathing? if so we can ignore those events, the machine gets confused if you aren't sleeping.

what do you mean trying to get into a breathing rhythm? you should not "try" to do anything imo, just breathe as hard/often as you want as if you weren't hooked up to it. the machine won't alter it's behavior because you're breathing "too much" into it. or is that just to try to fall asleep?

i would also raise the min pressure.

[williegeez]

It was definitely awake activity. Once I realized I was holding my breath, I tried to focus on breathing. Like I had found in physical therapy, that I would stop breathing while focusing on the exercise and would soon have to stop until I caught my breath. So I started breathing ryhthmically to the exercise. I guess trying to nod off I just lost for a while the ability to breath naturally. I occasionally have had that, not often, lying down, where I just have to get up. I thought of just excluding that from my graph this time when I captured it, but someone on this board had said not to ever do that. In any case, there's no normal for me when it comes to breathing. 

Yes, I'll go to min 7 for tonight.

[williegeez]

After two lost nights of sleeping for nothing to do with sleep apnea, I needed a decent night and got it.
The one thing I noticed the night before was that my tongue had sort of gone on strike trying to avoid 
mouth breathing. And I noticed that with my teeth in (I've had full dentures for over 10 years), my tongue 
seems to understand where it belongs. So I  left my dentures in for the night. I also reduced by min pressure back to 
6.4, although I suspect the rise to 7 had nothing to do with my problems. I also reduced my melatonin to start, taking
one pill before bed and taking the 2nd pill after I woke from the 2nd session felling not so sleepy.   

I'm guessing I went back to teeth grinding which my wife always said I did at night in addition to stopping breathing and 
and restless leg syndrome. 

I'm planning no change for tonight, other than cleaning the dentures well after dinner.

[williegeez]

   
2nd night wearing my dentures and I slept for almost 3 hours, minimal incidents, no real leakage, no snoring. 
It makes some sense to me that wearing them helps. 

Unfortunately I couldn't get back to sleep, so I gave up after almost an hour and shut everything down.  I put some
movie on I wasn't interested in and managed to doze some I'd say for about an hour, which is what I do if I can't seem
to sleep more with CPAP; generally, I try for 4 hours. It seems I can then sleep some without CPAP just to get my sleep
to a manageable level. I don't know if the last 40 minutes on this graph when I couldn't sleep shows anything pertinent.
For that matter whether the first 2'50" session shows anything relevant.

I wonder if the excitement of crashing the 1 hour barrier of sleeping made it hard for me to fall back asleep last night ? 

I'm inclined to try 7.0 min pressure again, which I guess would help the bit of Flow Limit happening ? 

I'm open to suggestions at least for the next 3 nights, as I have sleep study dr appt Monday, for which I have low expectations 
about, so I won't be disappointed. I get the sense now I'm only seeing him as needed for insurance purposes.