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RE: New User - Looking For Suggestions
If you didn't already have generally low volume breathing, this level of breathing would make me think "REM sleeping". I'm not so sure, though, in this case.  I still lean towards REM sleep because there is a tendency to speed up a few breaths and then back to more consistent, awake-like breathing is generally shaped like those waves as well.


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RE: New User - Looking For Suggestions
If you didn't already have generally low volume breathing, this level of breathing would make me think "REM sleeping". I'm not so sure, though, in this case.  I still lean towards REM sleep because there is a tendency to speed up a few breaths and then back to more consistent, awake-like breathing is generally shaped like those waves as well.

I am attaching part of my night on Aug 7th, where I shift into REM sleep, and how awake like waves and widely variant low volume breathing look.  Not all of us have such distinguishing signatures.  I have these shifts more pronounced than most others on the forum.

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Hmm, I'm not sure either then. I admittedly don't know a lot about what the breathing wave shape is supposed to look like at different stages of sleep but I've noticed a pattern of how my breathing tends to progress over a number of months of data. Relatively uniform and round wave shape when awake --> those uniform waves start to dip or flattened intermittently --> replaced with breaths where a little hill leads to a bigger hill with the top of the big hill flattened or scooped out often. The last section I sent looked to me like the initial flow from that first type of breathing to the next. Sorry for the non-technical explanations.
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I'm open to pressure or epr suggestions for bringing down my flow limitations if anyone has them. I'm also curious if my low breathing volume is something that can be addressed through cpap settings or if I should just ignore it/ask a doctor about it.
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