Jay, thank you for the pep talk! It is most appreciated as this night is winding down here in SoCal, 9:29 PM, and I'll be getting off the computer soon to give an hour or so without the screen light before lights out, and hoping as many of us do here for a good night's sleep. FWIW, last night I fell...

Thanks Otter, deltadave, and Jay for the additional help and info. The last two nights I tried taping my mouth shut. The first night I broke the seal somewhere early on, but the second night the tape held all night. On the second night I only remember two wake ups before finally getting up around 7:...

deltadave wrote, "Where's the MF sleep log?" Please explain, what is the MF sleep log? Is it a report generated in ResScan, or is something I should be hand writing upon waking up? deltadave wrote, "Lastly, there is some perplexation as to why you've lost 50 pounds and may be still having respirator...

@Otter - should I try adjusting the pressure up? My current APAP range is 13 min, 16 max. Should I try making the min like 13.2 or 13.4? I do not have a chin strap to try. Do you use a chin strap and have one you like? I could go look at cpap.com. or try eBay! I've read a lot of the chinstrap v. mou...

@Otter - thanks for the additional info. So my throat relaxing in REM sleep, as supported by the observation of increased Flow Limitation at that time, could be the cause of the irregular Flow breathing patterns? Yes. For most people, OSA is worse when they're in REM. Of course, if you had a good a...

@deltadave - I appreciate you taking the time to give me advice. Would you say it could be beneficial to get my health provider to give me an overnight sleep study? Is there anything we could learn from that to help with these wake ups? And I think I understand what you are saying about the citalopr...

@deltadave - the energy level quote is from an older post of mine. I am more relaxed than that now. Sometime after that post I updated things to say I sometimes miss that higher energy level because it was easier to get workouts done, which you must have missed reading. But really, I am more comfort...

Thanks for all the input everyone. It really is appreciated. I shall try to respond as best I can, but it will likely take a few tries to get to all the levels of detail: @Otter - I think Minute Ventilation as reported in ResScan may be the "respiratory rate trace" you mentioned. I'll pay attention ...

@Jay Aitchsee - that is a cool website. His chart in section 6 for Hypopnea look like some of my patterns, which makes me think I am getting reduced upper airway breathing with several short inhale - exhale cycles, but most of my patterns like that are under 10 seconds, more like 5 seconds or less, ...

@robysue - glad to read you have the insomnia monster under better control. I have it under better control than a few months ago, but I feel like this big wake up could take me out again, which is why I went ahead and *finally* posted some Flow data that I thought might give a clue. @Jay Aitchsee - ...

Thanks all for the replies. @JohnBFisher - the falling back to sleep after the big wake up is a concern. I can get several wake ups and fall back to sleep quickly, but then the one I call "the big wake up" is the one where I don't fall back to sleep easily or quickly, and in the past 10 months if I ...

@Pugsy, thanks for the additional thoughts. I was hoping there was something in those Flow shapes that would suggest something for me to try to reduce or eliminate the wake ups, something even other than the APAP therapy. @robysue, yes, I have read a bit about segmented sleep, learning of it from an...

Yeah, I was not saying having your data would be the answer to everything. I am working now on the right mask combination and machine settings as I just got started. The other part of my treatment I started researching today was more natural ways of treating insomnia, I figure it might go away afte...

Thanns for the quick repies. @Lizistired - no noises like that. It's a recurring pattern I've lived with for years, but it seems to have gotten worse in the last 9 months. @Cuda - good luck getting your better results. That's part of the irony to me, I'll get good APAP data, but too many of these wa...

Otter wrote:I'd post both the whole night and a detail view. Not sure the best way to go about that, though, since I never managed to convince Resscan to install on xp x64.

I started a new thread with a whole night and detail view here:

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