I want to thank you warmly.

I had been diagnosed with sleep apnea.
By mistake ?
Thanks to you, I'm going to have a real discussion (with arguments) with my sleep doctor.
I will keep you informed.

Pugsy, I would like to return to a point in the discussion.
Whatever the cause, at some point, asleep or awake, I no longer breathe. This is a fact. Which implies that my throat is closed. So CPAP remains necessary to help open this closed throat?

Thank you Pugsy. If I understand you well, most of my OA's/H's happen when I am not fully asleep but mostly awake. It may mean that my problem, a crappy sleep, is out of the scope of CPAP. ? Another way to say it, is that I may not need a CPAP therapy per say, and that the question is, why a crappy ...

A more precise title.

I would appreciate the opinion of the experienced "elders", eg Pugsy, regarding the origin of my AHIs. I have attached exploded views of the typical situations of my nights. My background: CPAP for a year Acceptable nights, even if not dramatically better than before AHI around 1.5 Pretty good under...

I regularly have these clusters which represent the bulk of my total AHI. Putting on a cervical collar does not change anything.
What should I check/change ?

Please let me know your opinion.

THANKS

I have been in regression for a few weeks, concerning Oscar, with,for my last night, as an example: -A rather mediocre AHI -Increasing leaks from my mask -Two bad clusters:22:20-00:00 and 03:00 -03:40 -FL Details: Exotic despite: -A feeling of my night not too bad ? -Correct reporting of my O2 ? I w...

Images concerning the non impact on O2 of bad breathing episodes


At 00:00 several OA's and close to zero impact


Between 02:25 and 03:25 miserable breathing and the O2 reporting doesn't care


Thank you

My "bad" cluster lasted 20 mn with 11 OA's, each one lasting more than 20 seconds, without mentionning several miserable phases not mentioned as OA by Oscar.
When I look at my O2 reporting at this very moment, it looks great ! Never below 95, with an average of 97.
Strange ?

Last night, for example, was particularly bad with an AHI of 5.4 reported in OSCAR, with, in particular, a cluster of 8 OA's at one point. I expected this to translate into my O2 Ring reporting by lowering the SPO2. But in fact, I had NO impact. It remained perfect. Which leads me to doubt the quali...

Thank you all, for your remarks and your different ways to help the understanding.

Obstuctives are prevented at EPAP, IPAP has nothing to do with them, because you can't get to IPAP if you don't trigger an inhalation, and not during 'exhale', during the rest period post exhale before the initiation of a new breath. It's interesting. Could you, please, elaborate one each one of yo...

For 7 months, I believe I have made good progress in the management of my therapy, mainly thanks to the Cpap Forum. But when I try to understand how it works between the machine and my pharynx , I continue to be unclear. 1: concerning FL's, there are two possible culprits: the nose or the throat. If...

My best guess is you have crappy sleep from some spontaneous arousals (not related to any airway issues) but I have no way to know for sure and there's no way to identify what might have caused the spontaneous arousals. Your guess is correct. I think that my sleep is is disturbed by a lot of micro/...

To my eye none of those look like real asleep breathing. Looks more like awake breathing to me. Thank you Pugsy, the fact that my AO's are fakes, would be consistent with a situation where I am, very often, half awake, strugling and fidgeting in bed. But, if this were generalized, it should lead me...