sunlight titration thread
Hello!
I'm a guy in my 30's who completed a sleep study last year and was diagnosed with OSA. I was given a Sefam S.Box that I really don't get along with but have persisted in using because it has helped tremendously. I have no idea how it's set up as I'm locked out of the clinician's menus. From what I can tell it seems to default to 4cm and sometimes ramps up to 14cm, possibly more.
I was supposed to have a follow-up appointment a month after starting the treatment in order to calibrate the machine and see how things were going. That was well over 6 months ago and it seems my local hospital is too swamped to follow-up. Even getting a call back to talk to a nurse can take weeks. If I could sit down with a doctor I'd tell them the machine often gives me headaches when it blasts really high and wakes me up, along with stomach aches (I have no idea how this could happen).
My main concerns are I still often feel tired, though not as bad as prior to treatment and that the machine is very loud and I don't like that it affects my partner's sleep.
Without being able to get much ongoing support, I've decided to take my therapy into my own hands and ordered a Resmed Airsense 10 and Wellue Checkme O2 Max with the intention to capture and interpret sleep data using OSCAR, and then use this to calibrate the CPAP machine to improve my treatment.
I'm attaching some results from my sleep study (prior to treatment) in the hopes someone could advise me on initial settings for the Airsense 10. Any general advice would also be appreciated!
TL;DR
CPAP noob needs help with initial settings for AS10 based on attached sleep study.
I'm a guy in my 30's who completed a sleep study last year and was diagnosed with OSA. I was given a Sefam S.Box that I really don't get along with but have persisted in using because it has helped tremendously. I have no idea how it's set up as I'm locked out of the clinician's menus. From what I can tell it seems to default to 4cm and sometimes ramps up to 14cm, possibly more.
I was supposed to have a follow-up appointment a month after starting the treatment in order to calibrate the machine and see how things were going. That was well over 6 months ago and it seems my local hospital is too swamped to follow-up. Even getting a call back to talk to a nurse can take weeks. If I could sit down with a doctor I'd tell them the machine often gives me headaches when it blasts really high and wakes me up, along with stomach aches (I have no idea how this could happen).
My main concerns are I still often feel tired, though not as bad as prior to treatment and that the machine is very loud and I don't like that it affects my partner's sleep.
Without being able to get much ongoing support, I've decided to take my therapy into my own hands and ordered a Resmed Airsense 10 and Wellue Checkme O2 Max with the intention to capture and interpret sleep data using OSCAR, and then use this to calibrate the CPAP machine to improve my treatment.
I'm attaching some results from my sleep study (prior to treatment) in the hopes someone could advise me on initial settings for the Airsense 10. Any general advice would also be appreciated!
TL;DR
CPAP noob needs help with initial settings for AS10 based on attached sleep study.
