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[Treatment] Feeling Lost - Started Therapy 10/21/24
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Feeling Lost - Started Therapy 10/21/24
I started therapy 10/21/24 after being diagnosed with the below.

Attached diagnosis, but adding here just incase:
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea (G47.33) - Moderate based on pAHIo=26.7 and O2 nadir of 77%
  • Central Sleep Apnea (G47.31) - Mild based on pAHIc=7.7
   

And here are 2 of my most recent days:
   
   

I'm getting very high CA which I'm assuming is treatment-emergent CA, but then again my graphs do not look good. Sad Also, I'm still getting used to wearing the mask all night, but this is usually how long I can use it for before taking it off.
  1. Am I off-track on therapy?
  2. What do y'all recommend I do?
  3. Should I be looking at getting a BiPAP machine instead?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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RE: Feeling Lost - Started Therapy 10/21/24
When you first start you can get treatment emergent centrals.  One of the larger reason is EPR 3.  For a night I would turn off the EPR and see if that makes much of a different.  If it does you can start introducing EPR in a couple weeks to 1 and then a couple more weeks 2 and so on until you get it to EPR3..
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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RE: Feeling Lost - Started Therapy 10/21/24
Hello there. I first started off with EPR 1 but then went to EPR 3 (for the past 11 nights). I'll switch to to EPR 2 and see how it goes. Thanks.
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