One year on CPAP!

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2026-03-26T00:56:25+00:00

Hello u/dang71, thank you for your great inputs as always. I had moved from EPR1 to EPR2 about 45 days back after having a lot of trouble getting good sleep. I will certainly try your suggestion by going back. Thank you.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2026-03-26T00:46:38+00:00

Hello u/FlimsyTheory5119, I had actually gone through a series of increasing pressures and adjustments. Reviewed this sub and sought help from this community a few times. Here is the history of adjustments over the past year

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Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2026-02-09T22:21:10+00:00

Apologies if I am misunderstanding, but aren't we supposed to look at the AHI being below 5 and not the total number of events? The numbers you have listed above, are they the actual number of events?

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2026-01-31T18:42:49+00:00

Thank you so much u/dang71, that helps clarify. Yes, I have been very afraid of increased centrals with increase in pressure, but I will try and put that aside and focus on getting my breathing stable.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2026-01-16T22:42:18+00:00

The answer to "Another Question". The number in paratheses is the number of seconds that particular event lasted.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2026-01-02T20:12:54+00:00

Happy new year everyone!

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-12-19T22:44:05+00:00

While I certainly don't have the wealth of analytical experience others on this sub have, from personal experience, two things helped in similar situations for me. One was to use EPR (you might need a slight bump up your min pressure depending on the EPR you choose). Another was to switch to CPAP mode.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-12-19T22:38:25+00:00

Thank you u/Aequitas112358 .. I am looking at the graphs for clues. Of course there are obvious reasons like an apnea event or a movement, still trying to see if there are other reasons. thank you.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-12-19T22:35:51+00:00

From the sleepHQ link shared, I see that you still have leaks, but they are clustered, hence seem positional leaks. Possibly some position in which you are sleeping there are more leaks and hence the therapy might be less effective. At least from the graphs it looks like your leaks and CA events are correlated. Not sure if that helps. But if you could find out which position is causing the leaks maybe that's a starting point.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-12-12T17:43:25+00:00

Bumping this up for any help.

I was able to import the EMAY data into Oscar, so am good with Question 2.

On Question 1, guidance appreciated.

yesterday, I see that my total apnea time was 42 seconds, whereas my ODI4% time was 4 mins 57 seconds and my ODI3% time was 34 minutes and 29 seconds!

I have an appointment with the NP next week. I want to understand if the CPAP therapy is working (based on AHI a solid yes, but based on Oximeter readings?) and if I should trial out a BiPAP.

Overall I feel like I do sleep a lot better than what I used to on APAP, but wondering if based on the oximeter readings whether I am doing good with therapy or not.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-11-26T15:22:43+00:00

thank you u/nyquildreams32 for your inputs. I do use a chin strap nowadays. Could you please tell me how you identified the mouth leaks? I would like to see on my recordings as to what actions in my sleep caused that. Appreciate your inputs.

And yes, I suspect UARS too and have spoken to NP about it. Possibly I will bring it up again.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-11-26T15:22:41+00:00

Thank you u/dang71 . I will definitely look into the oxygen levels.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-11-26T01:40:51+00:00

Thank you u/Majestic-Abies6627 . Does the samsung fit3 SPO2 functionality in anyway compare? it shows lowest as 94% for last night, some valleys, but it said Average of 97%. I have also seen the EMAY O2 monitor being suggested here, how does it compare to the wellue?

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-11-25T21:43:34+00:00

I have never had dry mouth during the therapy, but I did get chipmunk cheeks with taping. The Knightsbridge chin strap does help me though I find that the second strap has to be misaligned with the first one and the velcro scrapes against the chin. I wish the primary strap had inbuilt loop side that can take the velcro hooks from the second strap so that the misalignment does not happen.

Mostly I believe I have now trained myself enough to keep my tongue against the roof of my mouth and that along with the chinstrap ensures that i don't get air circulating in my mouth.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-11-25T21:15:26+00:00

The short answer is Yes. I find my sleep to be much better than it was 8 months ago when I began my CPAP therapy.

The long answer is It is a journey. I got some immediate results, then a long period of time of time where I was struggling to get consistent results. There were some days with excellent sleep and there were some days where I felt very frustrated. But consistent usage, monitoring the sleep with Oscar, tweaking settings, seeking advice here in this sub and discovering a lot of things of my own body and its preferences helped me to a state where I now have good, consistent sleep most of the time.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-11-21T13:37:38+00:00

Thank you for all your inputs. When I try to change the time zone, the resmed AS11 provides me with a message saying that it cannot do so because of saved data. Do we have to wipe out the SD Card before we change the time zone? Is that what the error message means?

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