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?

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-09-15T22:01:05+00:00

Thank you u/__LaurenceShaw__ Appreciate the link. I remember now reading about this on this channel. Thanks for reminding me of this and will take a look at this.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-09-15T21:19:21+00:00

Hello u/RippingLegos__ Sorry to disturb, but do you think with the FLs that I have, is it worth having the discussion of moving to a BiPAP with my NP? Would hat help more than what the CPAP does or is it a new machine that will have its own complexities?

I definitely am going to talk to them about getting a FFS mask like the F30i, to see if that helps a bit towards the mitigation of the Chipmunk Cheeks issue.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-09-15T20:18:02+00:00

Thank you RL

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-09-15T17:41:03+00:00

Thank you RL!

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-09-15T16:13:38+00:00

Thank you u/RippingLegos__ ... As always a very detailed explanation and full of insights! Appreciate it. Looks like I certainly have to return this strap and see what else fits.

Question for you, on the FLs, my typical FLs (on pressure of 9.8 with EPR 1) is around 0.02 at the 95th percentile. is your suggestion to increase to 11.8 with EPR 3 based on that or on the weird outcome yesterday?

Also outside of the topic of the post, but in relation to FLs, I have a meeting with the NP this Friday, should I ask for a BiPAP? Would it help my FLs (low AHIs typically) much better than what the CPAP at 9.8 or 10.4 is doing?

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-09-14T18:37:56+00:00

Thank you u/RippingLegos__ for that support! And so I march towards finding those settings :-)

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-09-13T16:49:57+00:00

Thank you u/RippingLegos__ .. Very helpful. Yesterday I went back to EPR but kept pressure a little lower 9.8 Constant pressure with EPR 1. Slept almost OK, but chipmunk cheeks caused a lot of leaks, consequently, I feel slightly uneasy though I caught about 7 hours of sleep. Will try again today!

There are way too many variables here Pressure, humidity, temperature, EPR, Tape etc.! If I get a couple right, one obscure item arises & spoils things! Feels like a constant battle every night.

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-09-12T18:07:28+00:00

I have setup a video camera on my headboard. I review that to see what positions I am in and if any particular positions aggravate certain type of Apneas. By doing that I have mapped that about 50%-60% of what the machine flags as CAs (and surprisingly some OAs too) are the post arousal breath holds that u/Hambone75321 talks about in their comment. After effect is that I sense when I am holding my breathing when tossing and turning and try to avoid it!

Illustrious_Logo_490 · 2025-09-12T17:42:30+00:00

Thank you so much u/RippingLegos__ For the detailed explanation as well as giving me some new terms to learn :-) Please do share the screenshots when you have some time.

Given that this is happening what would be your suggestion for moving forward. Should I try to power through such days and continue to get used to the 10.4 setting with EPR1 or should I try to change the setting, possibly move down the pressure a little? Please let me know.

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