Follow Up: My sleep doc sent me back in for another titration study. During the study, every time I started into REM, I would have a partial type event that would immediately knock me right out of REM. These events were not considered significant enough for the CPAP machine to register something, bu...

I'm going to take a guess here and guess your mouth opening and dry mouth is not caused from "Pressure", but rather from 'jaw drop'. I had the same problem. When I changed to the Quattro Mirage FFM.... it covered more of my chin and kept my mouth closed. I don't have any more dry mouth or sore thro...

Are you having any mask related issues at all? Comfort? Leaks? Anything that we could maybe fix with the mask itself. Well, the mask is as comfortable as a mask could possibly be, I suppose. I am due to get a new one the first of February, and thought I'd try the new full face mask I heard about th...

How much of an impact do you think the pain is having on your sleep quality? That is the main issue I have with interrupted sleep. This is likely why I have had fragmented sleep for most my adult life. CPAP didn't help him because his crappy sleep wasn't related to sleep apnea and like you the mask...

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Mon Jan 07, 2019 2:30 pm

Is the doxepin to maybe help you sleep? Any chance you could increase the dosage?

Doxepin is for my Dercum's Disease.

I don't tolerate medications very well (extremely reactive), so I'm on a fractionated pediatric dose of doxepin. It definitely helps with the pain.

Since you are taking Zyrtec regularly I assume you have chronic nasal congestion issues It is actually for another weird allergic reaction thing that has to do with mast cells. so some or all of that FL graph might be related to the nasal congestion and more pressure won't usually fix nasal congest...

Fragmented sleep will trash sleep architecture/sleep quality and make us feel like crap even with the most perfect cpap therapy in the world. Unfortunately there are a lot of potential culprits for fragmented sleep than just sleep apnea. My sleep doctor seems to think my fragmented sleep is due to ...

How many hours of sleep are you averaging with cpap? Real sleep and not laying there trying to sleep? Are those hours fragmented very much...wake up often? Do you take any medications? If so, what? What is your primary complaint that hasn't been resolved with cpap therapy? We know the headaches are...

Also, I assume that when you went to "plain CPAP" that you changed a setting rather than that you changed your machine. If that's the case, you have the flexibility to resume auto mode. BTW, are you using exhalation relief? That means that the machine slightly reduces the pressure when you exhale. ...

if you could download that and post some graphs here, then the experts can give you some specific advice. without the information about you, the best they can do is guess. I've been using SleepyHead since the beginning, which is why I'm very familiar with my AHI and leaks and such. What graphs woul...

The feeling that the machine wants you to breathe sooner is a symptom of some human stress about the process. Once you fall asleep, the autonomic breathing process takes over. You breathe gently with little effort. Maybe I'm not explaining this properly. On APAP, it would think I'm not breathing so...

More likely, you were being waked up by breathing events, and blamed it on the pressure changes... same with the 'little puffs of air' that the machine used to see whether you were having a central or obstructive event. Possibly. However, I have been doing diaphragmic breathing since my teens, and ...

I've been using an APAP/CPAP machine for five months now. I switched from APAP to CPAP a few months ago because I was constantly being woken all night from the changing pressures and the little puffs of air the machine would send if it thought I was having a central event.... My AHI was 28 before th...