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Thank you for your input! I have been wondering about the "sleep debt". Do you really feel like your old self since you've reached that 1 year at 100% compliance? It seems like such a long time. I know I have to be patient, but I would be devastated if I waited one entire year and then realized it'...

My sleep study looked similar to yours - it took about a year - yes 1 year and 100% compliance before things turned around. My GP believes in the concept of "sleep deficit " - who knows ... Assuming you are refraining from alcohol,sugars and late eating - based on my experience I would add the foll...

Sorry for not updating for a while! I finally got a new heated hose and it helped, but I was struggling a bit with air swallowing again so I held off on trying Afrin. Yesterday I finally had an 8 hour night with the machine on the whole time, so yay! I'm still seeing a lot of flow limitations though...

I think I found the problem with my burning nose... I just went to adjust the temperature of my heated tube, but the "Climate Control" option is not in the menu anymore (user OR clinical). I tried unplugging the tube and plugging it again, and unplugging and plugging the machine, to no avail It must...

Thanks to Pugsy's suggestion to increase the EPR, the swallowing of air decreased dramatically and I was able to increase the pressure until it didn't reach the max during the night! It seems like I found the correct pressure last night: http://i.imgur.com/NyOYeAel.jpg Sadly, it didn't seem to do mu...

That makes perfect sense and it seems like Afrin would be a good thing to try! I'm going to try one thing at a time though to make sure I can pinpoint the problem, but I'm definitely keeping Afrin for the next step. Thank you!

Anatomically if your nasal airway is narrow and hard palate (the floor of nasal airway) is high, nocturnal nasal congestion could be the likely culprit. One way to test it out is to buy Afrin and use it before sleep for a few nights (don't use it two nights in a row to avoid rebound effect) and see...

Thank you for the explanation! Makes sense.

Would you also recommend trying another type of mask?

In the meantime, I'll try with the new EPR for a week and post results at the end.

Once again, thank you everyone for your help!

Try increasing your EPR from 1 to 2 to see if helps with the air swallowing issues. Your flow limitation graph from last night shows a little activity but I have seen much, much worse. Need more nights and more hours to better evaluate. I'll try to increase the EPR, thank you! Is it normal that I'm...

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I'll definitely try the saline mist. The dry nasal passage thing is driving me nuts. I've been on the 9-10 pressure for the past two nights, but I forgot to put my SD card back in the CPAP on the first night (scatterbrain much?), and last night I only managed to keep...

Thank you so much for your suggestions everyone! I'm glad there was at least one or two things that seemed wrong (which I didn't see), because then that means there's still room for improvement! I will try 9-10 starting tonight and I will adjust my humidity setting to keep the CPAP on for the entire...

Oh I forgot to answer your question regarding how much sleep I get: I use the CPAP for around 6-7 hours and take it off when I wake up because my nasal passage is usually kind of dry and irritated, and then I go back to sleep for another 2-3 hours. So I always sleep at least 8-9 hours a night. I wak...

@Pugsy First of all, thank you so much for making me discover SleepyHead! That program is amazing, and thank you to everyone who worked on it! I didn't think it was possible to access so much information from our CPAP machines! Now on to the results, here are screen shots of the stats and last night...

@Julie: I always fall asleep on my side, but I sleep half the night on my back, half on my side according to the study. But I did try the tennis ball sown into the back of a pajamas thing for about a month before we did the sleep study (along with nasal strips and light therapy), and nothing changed...