07-30-2024, 11:15 AM
Sudden Recent Jump in Events
Hello! I recently found this board and it has been very helpful and informative. I got the OSCAR software set up last week and it is so helpful to know the details beyond just the AHI number.
I was diagnosed with severe OSA back in May this year and was prescribed the ResMed AirSense 10 AutoSet with pressure range 6-14 and EPR = 2, using nasal pillows (I have pretty bad sinus congestion but somehow these still work?). For the first couple of months I was doing fairly consistently, with AHI around 3. The summary stats show they were mostly Clear Airway events (no OSCAR data until late July sadly).
When I was on the range 6-14, the 95% mark was around 11. That range was giving me pretty bad aerophagia, so my doctor decreased the range to 6-10 (this was on July 17). Since then, the aerophagia has been a lot better, but I am wondering if the recent change in range is the reason for my increase in AHI.
In the past week, the AHI value has been mostly above 4, going as high as 7.78. I haven't seen 7 since maybe the second week I started therapy, so I am kind of concerned. I don't recall making any major changes to my sleeping arrangement, but I did muck around a bit with EPR (but for the past few days everything was changed back to how it was before these episodes started).
Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
July 21
July 25
July 29
I was diagnosed with severe OSA back in May this year and was prescribed the ResMed AirSense 10 AutoSet with pressure range 6-14 and EPR = 2, using nasal pillows (I have pretty bad sinus congestion but somehow these still work?). For the first couple of months I was doing fairly consistently, with AHI around 3. The summary stats show they were mostly Clear Airway events (no OSCAR data until late July sadly).
When I was on the range 6-14, the 95% mark was around 11. That range was giving me pretty bad aerophagia, so my doctor decreased the range to 6-10 (this was on July 17). Since then, the aerophagia has been a lot better, but I am wondering if the recent change in range is the reason for my increase in AHI.
In the past week, the AHI value has been mostly above 4, going as high as 7.78. I haven't seen 7 since maybe the second week I started therapy, so I am kind of concerned. I don't recall making any major changes to my sleeping arrangement, but I did muck around a bit with EPR (but for the past few days everything was changed back to how it was before these episodes started).
Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
July 21
July 25
July 29
