How old are you?
Male or female?
How is your overall sleep quality? Wake often during the night or sleep soundly for the most part?

Where are you located?

What humidity setting?

Does a hot steamy shower help or hurt your nasal congestion? Important to know because your nose may or may not need more moisture.

I don't like making more than one change in things at a time unless I have no choice and it's an urgent need to make more than one change at a time. Think about it.....if something really good or really bad happens then who gets the credit or blame. When you make more than one change you can't say f...

Not a fan of firmware updates during my therapy! :lol: :lol: I don't think that you have to lose sleep worrying about that happening. ResMed is real stingy with their over the air upgrades....I know of one...maybe 2 in all my 15 years using cpap. I was not aware you could 'pause' a session... I jus...

I'll take your advice and bump it up to thirteen. I seem to managed the pressure quite well. No....just do the 10 cm minimum. Don't do 13 minimum....that's too big of a jump and I don't see you needing it to compensate for the EPR use....at this time anyway. Now if your AHI had been 10 ish or more....

Where do I sign up???
I want a nasal spray that will fix my OSA and BP at the same time.
While I am wanting things how about something to help me lose the last 20 pounds that I want gone???

Hey.....a girl can wish can't she?

What do you think, Pugsy? I did notice the reduction in the minimum. I didn't advise that....I thought he would keep the minimum at 10 and then adding EPR probably wouldn't be much (if any) factor in allowing real asleep OAs or hyponeas to pop up. BUT even with the reduction in minimum EPAP the rea...

Unfortunately you have asked some questions that there really isn't any way to know exactly what the answers are. Could those arousals be from nasal congestion discomfort??? Sure they could but they could also be simply spontaneous arousals from some other cause. Lots of people have trouble with aro...

Deal with the congestion the best you can. If we can't breathe comfortably we don't sleep so great.
Frequent wake ups can really screw up the sleep stage progression that we need for the restorative powers of sleep to work their magic.

So.....how did you sleep last night and how do you feel today?
How was the congestion?

About half those flagged events appear to be more SWJ (sleep/wake/junk) arousal/awake related.

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Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:59 am

I started on nasal pillows medium and a few months ago I switched to large. Ever since my events per hour have gone up.

So....just how much of an increase in events??? and what kind of events are you seeing?
Waking often during the night?
What does your leak rate look like?

The machine (when in auto adjusting pressure mode) will try to kill the FLs with more pressure because FLs are one of the things it responds to in an effort to prevent collapses of the airway. The machine will also increase the pressure in response to snores as well as OAs and hyponeas. Fls and snor...

Well you may not remember waking during the night but your flow rate (breathing) says you had a lot of arousals during the night. The bulk of your flagged events (especially the centrals/CAs) have evidence of big gulps of air preceding the flagged event which means you weren't sound asleep. We don't...