Satisfied with sleep breathing treatment? What does your OSCAR data look like?

[TryingToGetItRight]

I've been on the ResMed S9 VPAP machine for the better part of a decade now after being diagnosed with severe UARS.

I'm attaching some air flow graphs.  Each one is for about 5 minutes and 23 seconds, so they are the same scale.  The first one shows about the closest thing to "normal" breathing I can find in my CPAP data.  The next few show some deviation from what I think is normal, and the last several show some really ugly fluctuations.  All of these flow graphs are from different five minute segments from the same night.  I do believe that the ugliest ones were during REM sleep, and people typically don't breath the same during REM compared to NREM.

What I would like to know is that if your OSA or UARS is being treated successfully with some kind of PAP device and you feel like you're sleeping well and feeling well, does your flow graph look "normal" all night long?

I just want to know what a "normal" flow rate graph looks like.

[Crimson Nape]

Here are 2 images from the Apneas Board Wiki that demonstrates various flow patterns. I hope they may help.





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[TryingToGetItRight]

I've seen the above graph showing "normal flow morphology".

I'm trying to ask if "treated" sleep apnea yields a signal that looks like that all night long.