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PLS - Need some help with interpreting the sleep data from Oscar - Laurenthepro - 11-20-2024
PLS - Need some help with interpreting the sleep data from Oscar.
I'm really struggling trying to get decent sleep and it's absolutely destroying every facet of my life and my business. I wake up tired and with headaches and my neurologist offers little to no insight. In addition, I've been dealing with nasal congestion quite often for the last 6 to 7 months and it's very difficult to breathe through my nose when I'm sleeping. I drink plenty of water, use a saline spray, and I just started using Flonase and none of it really seems to make a difference. I wake up with a dry mouth and I used to use tape on my mouth but I can't when I am congested as I can't breath. I'm currently using an air sense 11 and an F20 mask.
I'm just about ready to give up so I really appreciate any help anyone can offer. I just don’t know how much longer I can go on like this. Every single moment of every day is the worst moment of my life right now. I just can’t seem to get any relief or help.
Here is the link to some of my data.
imgur.com/a/WWsfuBU
RE: PLS - Need some help with interpreting the sleep data from Oscar - super7pilot - 11-20-2024
My charts looked like yours when I first started. I'm new to this like you.
I don't have the experience to firmly suggest specific settings. Others will be along shortly I'm sure.
Look at your sleep lab results and see if there were a lot of central apneas. If not. Yours (like mine) are from the treatment.
The good folks here said that it is common to have those in varying degrees. They are called treatment emergent central apneas.
And like you, I was very firmly in zombie status despite my obstructive apneas going away. And again, It's down to getting used to breathing normally with the variable pressures. Those pressures and wonky breathing can and do cause new users to partially wake up. And cause the increase in day time sleepiness. And it can be frustrating.
For your nose. see an ENT. The flonase can take a few days to start working. My Dr. said DO NOT inhale when spraying the Flonase. Just shoot it up there and hold a tissue under your nose.
Look at these two charts of mine. The settings are nearly identical. Yet the results are very different. And that difference is mostly my body adapting to pressurized breathing and trying hard to relax and breath normally.
RE: PLS - Need some help with interpreting the sleep data from Oscar - Laurenthepro - 11-20-2024
Hey, thank you! I’ve been on CPAP for 11 months. The first 4-5 were great, ever since May it’s been horrible. I’ll have a good night or two a week but lately I’ve had zero good nights for the last month or two and I’m running on empty. I’ve just got nothing left.
RE: PLS - Need some help with interpreting the sleep data from Oscar - super7pilot - 11-20-2024
Then I would be off to the ENT ASAP to get the plugged nose issue resolved.
Are you tucking your chin to cause those flow limitations?
RE: PLS - Need some help with interpreting the sleep data from Oscar - Laurenthepro - 11-21-2024
What do you mean “tucking my chin”? I’m not familiar. ?
RE: PLS - Need some help with interpreting the sleep data from Oscar - super7pilot - 11-21-2024
It’s when your chin moves towards your chest while sleeping. Which can restrict air flow and raise the flow limit in the oscar charts.
And of course a stuffy nose while wearing nose pillows can so the same.
RE: PLS - Need some help with interpreting the sleep data from Oscar - Deborah K. - 11-21-2024
You would get more help if you posted your Oscar charts directly on the website, not through imgur.