[Pressure] Min at 7 and my AHI is good, why should I increase it?

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I've got recommendations of min pressure of 12 for myself,
But this is what I get with min at 7,

Then, why? Is this "increase your min" a trend or something?

A constant higher pressure would be even better than this for my body? How?

   

[Dormeo]

Are you feeling well-rested during the day? With a nice low AHI like yours, that's a key question.

[Deborah K.]

While you are still so new, it would help if you kept all your therapy questions to one thread.  Otherwise, folks have trouble advising you without seeing your other posts.

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Are you feeling well-rested during the day?  With a nice low AHI like yours, that's a key question.

No, never, and I'm starting to think my tiredness has nothing to do with apnea. 

I had just one Oxymeter all-night test that told my AHI was 35/h but I really doubt that² was correct. 

Can I use my cpap to monitor that? Maybe using like 4 for min pressure it would become just an apnea detector ? lol

[SarcasticDave94]

Unfortunately no, using your CPAP at 4 will not give an accurate measurement of needing the treatment.

If you want to monitor your oxygen, a recording pulse oximeter can include the data on OSCAR if it's compatible.

Apnea therapy isn't a light switch, where overnight you're instantly better. This is therapy that helps repair the not well rested sleep deprived damage over time. How many YEARS did you have Apnea symptoms before the diagnosis? Years of damage will not be resolved in days, weeks, months.

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Apnea therapy isn't a light switch, where overnight you're instantly better. This is therapy that helps repair the not well rested sleep deprived damage over time. How many YEARS did you have Apnea symptoms before the diagnosis? Years of damage will not be resolved in days, weeks, months.

Symptoms started suddenly on June. I even thought I was dying from something more aggressive like cancer, because it was too hard and out of nothing. Really incapacitating somnolence, fatigue and sore throat. 

An appointment with dr ChatGPT listed apnea as the most possible cause and I readily did the oxymeter test. On September I was put on a rented CPAP.

But anyway what I'm trying to understand is how to decide which min pressure is better.. a lower one that keeps spiking overnight or a higher one to try to avoid every hypopneas etc. Is this a personal preference only or science?

[Dormeo]

You won't be able to avoid every OA, H, CA, or FL. They are all part of normal sleep. What you want is a low AHI, which you have.

It is possible that pressure changes disturb your sleep. You might want to try setting your min and max both to around 9, which is your current median pressure. Keep your AHI at 3. Let us know how that goes, if you try it.

The sudden appearance of your symptoms makes me wonder whether two things are going on with one -- one sleep apnea and one something else. If you haven't already, I recommend that you get tests for the following: iron, thyroid, testosterone, vitamin D, B vitamins, and autoimmune diseases, especially in the connective-tissue disease family. Also, your mention of a sore throat makes me wonder whether you had Covid and are now experiencing long Covid. That's a question to bring up with your doctor as well.

[SarcasticDave94]

The decision to change pressures will be based on events data, and also how you feel. We'll not just be spinning dials. You'll want to have a decent amount of Apnea control, getting you below AHI 5, probably 2-3 AHI area. Zero events isn't the goal, just lower and comfortable.