After consulting with one of the forum's experts, I'd venture a guess that you may sometimes be experiencing palatal prolapse. This occurs when your soft palate and uvula droop down into your pharynx. For this reason, I'd recommend that you see an ENT doctor to see whether this is part or all of yo...

Hi, I attached photos of my Oscar data as well as the closeups of the flow rate during rem and outside of rem. After a couple years of very poor sleep and insomnia, I had a sleep study, and was diagnosed with mild sleep apnea and moderate to severe UARS: (Only 6.2 AHI but an RDI of 23.3/hr (44.5 in ...

Ynot, if you are still tired despite some improvements in your sleep length and sleep breathing, I wonder whether you need to widen your scope. Sometimes several factors contribute to daytime tiredness. What medications or drugs do you take? Have you had blood tests for thyroid, testosterone (if yo...

Miss Emerita wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 11, 2023 3:58 pm

Yes, your flow limitations are definitely better with EPR (as are mine). Do you feel better during the night or during the day? For some people reducing FLs make for a more restful night and rested day; for others it makes no real difference.

I answered your question, keep forgetting to quote

No I feel the same, I'm always tired. I feel about as tired as I felt prior to therapy, but a lot of it is simply insomia. I got 5 hours today, and I feel tired. I believe my tiredness is largely due to sleep deprivation given that I have mild sleep apnea. However, the worst my breathing is, the mor...

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Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:24 pm

Ynot wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:05 pm

Would pressure support benefit everyone if it were properly administered?

No.

Not everyone benefits from using PS/EPR and for some it can actually cause a significant problem.

I posted pics btw

https://imgur.com/a/e4cxcVE

Here's an imgur link to the pictures, lmk if you can't see them. Lmk what you think also

There's some information about FLs here: https://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php/Flow_limitation No amount of pressure support will help FLs that originate in the nose, so I want to focus on the ones that originate further down in the airway, where the tissues that line it can sometimes sag and l...

It's weird that I've seen people saying that epr helps flow limitation, but I haven't seen anyone explain why. Btw, are we going to be able to attach images soon? Is this something that happens often?

Flow limitation decreases when I turn epr on. I’ve seen this talked about in this forum. Why is this? As a sidenote, this always happens regardless of the pressure so the difference isn’t because of the pressure change in the examples I put. Why exactly does epr reduce flow limitations? Without sle...

Yes, it does matter why, quite a lot. It's important to actually understand the issue to solve it I think. Can you see the examples I put? I tried to attach images but I don't see them

Flow limitation decreases when I turn epr on. I’ve seen this talked about in this forum. Why is this? As a sidenote, this always happens regardless of the pressure so the difference isn’t because of the pressure change in the examples I put.

Why exactly does epr reduce flow limitations?