can someone read my oscar chart and tell me if it's good or bad?

[mugen4u]

The first night was a disaster, after 30 minutes I took off the mask
The second night was even worse because I kept coughing, which turned out to be due to an emerging cold
The 3rd night after taking a sleeping pill I slept, but there were drops of water in the hose and I turned it off after 1.5 hours

then not used for a week due to illness and a huge cold.

Last night I took another sleeping pill that was prescribed by the doctor, YES, I know this is not the intention, but this way my body can get used to the fact that there is a mask pressed on my face that keeps air in my throat. and was very curious whether CPAP would even lower my AHI as my previous experience was the opposite.



Although I feared that my AHI would become a lot higher (mainly because I also had this a year ago with the Airsense 10 after using a sleeping pill, but then I could only sleep 4 hours at the most) and we all know that your tongue and everything still If I become weaker due to sleeping medication and cause more obstruction, my AHI last night was 5.23, of which 4.9 was central.

PSG had an average AHI of 18, of which 11 was central and 22 during REM sleep.

I was able to sleep 5.2 hours with it last night, I can see that I had a leakage of 4l/min and I wondered how that is possible given the mask seal score is simply 20/20.

I attached oscar data but had to split the image as the size was to big, i have no idea what it all means but i hope you guys can tell me more.

[Expat31]

Hello, and welcome

To be able to help you, we really need a set of these 5 graphs as below:-

Events, Flow Rate, Pressure, Leak Rate and Flow Limitations. 

To do this, please use the F12 key to take screenshot of the Daily screen. This will include the valuable information on the Daily Screen's left side, but important to firstly disactiving the calendar to enable sufficient space.

Please see also the link Attaching images, files and posting charts.

What I can see from your statistics is that you have a very low fixed pressure of 6cms, and with high central apneas. You indicated that you had central apneas in your sleep study, so can you give us a summary of these results? 

It is quite likely sleeping tablets could be currently worsening the situation.

But without your OSCAR graphs, it is just guesswork at this stage.

So we are awaiting your graphs now.

Thanks

[mugen4u]

I don't understand, i thought i posted the charts? i did a F12 of my daily oscar and added it to the attachment. is that good?

my PSG sleep study had an average AHI of 17 and during REM it had 22, of wich mostly was central sleep apnea (about 12 per hour, and 5 till 10 OSA)
Arousel index was 12.1 per hour

[Expat31]

Hello 

Several things,

It would help if the left hand pane of the daily screen together with just the 5 essential graphs, could be all on one page to assist in easy analysis.

To improve visibility, go to Preferences/Appearance/Graph settings.

Try the settings in the attached screen shot to see if these helps.

I did suggest we needed just 5 graphs, this is normally the initial requirement to understand your overall situation. Always with the events graph on the top.

But eventually we may well need the other remaining graphs.

Hopefully some settings could be changed to reduce your centrals, but if not, a Bi-PAP may need to be considered.

We have some great members with Bi-PAPs here who can help out. 

I have only just realised that you have already have 8 or 9 other different previous threads already concerning your therapy, with perhaps answers already given on some aspects.

I did reply to the last one of these, differently entitled "First night on my third CPAP" regarding screen formatting.

I have not gone through all of these to see what has already been discussed which could well be gemaine to understand your overall situation.