Do you sometimes just have a bad night?

I'm a couple of months into this and trying different things. Klockemy (huge thanks again!) sent me a Respironics chinstrap a few weeks ago. I tried in 7 nights ago. Prior to that I was usually in the low 3-4 AHI range. With the strap on I rattled off 6 nights in the low 2-3 range, with a few clusters of OA's later in the night.

Last night I got a 5.5 AHI with OA's spread through the night. I don't feel any more tired than the previous night and nothing else in my routine changed. Do you sometimes just blow off a bad night's results when there is no explanation?

Yes, absolutely. There are just so many variables. Even healthy people without sleep disorders have bad sleeping nights. We are no different.

I've been on cpap for almost 7 years now. I still have some bad nights once in a while. Most of the time it has nothing to do with cpap.

I think everyone, whether dealing with sleep apnea or not, have bad nights. There can be any number of reasons.

Just last night, I woke on the middle of the night, made a trip to the bathroom and it took almost an hour to get back to sleep. I had my mask on and machine running. My mind just got going and wouldn't stop. I was thinking about getting up and doing something until I could get to sleep again but I fell back to sleep before I did that.

This morning, when I looked at my data on the computer, I saw the break when I was up and almost an hour afterwards with a lot of events.

It doesn't happen to me very often but once in a while I have a night like that. I had them before the sleep apnea diagnosis too but more often then.