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Please help me understand this mess
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Please help me understand this mess
After feeling & “knowing” I’ve had sleep apnea for at least 10 years, I finally did home study which revealed ahi 53 (OA only) and desats to 70s.  Due to my terrible health insurance, I opted against them supplying the machine and bought my own apap. Sadly at that point I was left to figure this out on my own. Doc wrote the generic APAP 4-20 which I’ve read is not ideal. One night I have decent numbers ahi 6-7 and the next I can have 4x that????  
I’ve tried doing some reading to educate myself but my results never seem to improve. Cheyenne Stokes?!? Scares they heck out of me - I’m 35 with no s/s of CHF that I’m aware of. Starting to wonder if I bought the wrong machine and need one that costs double.
I’m asking for anyone to look at this mess and help me understand so I can improve my therapy. Disclaimer* I know pretty much nothing so don’t be afraid to educate me: Thanks in advance!!!!!

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#2
RE: Please help me understand this mess
Welcome to the forum DBoone, unfortunately those are too small for me to read (and likely others).
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Thank you for the welcome, and also notifying me of how small those are. At “full” size I was told file was too big

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RE: Please help me understand this mess
I would suggest a night with the following settings.

Min 8
max 14
EPR Full time
EPR 3

lets see how that works for you and post tomorrow,
Apnea (80-100%) 10 seconds, Hypopnea (50-80%) 10 seconds, Flow Limits (0-50%) not timed  Cervical Collar - Dealing w DME - Chart Organizing
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With the amount of hypopneas and obstructive apnea events I would raise your min pressure to 10cm at least and raise max pressure back up to 16cm, you can leave EPR on at 3 for now and see if the flow limits get knocked down, but you are having some leak issues too...
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RE: Please help me understand this mess
please read this and use F12 to take oscar screenshots. phone pics are pretty bad and it's why you're having issues with file sizes.
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