Thanks! I will definitely check this out.

Well, I am no longer a CPAP user. After two months I was never able to get the false centrals under control and my all-time record was 2 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Next stop is a dental appliance. I just want to thank you for your help! It was a crazy couple of months and you helped me make the b...

Thanks. I came across the tongue at the roof of the mouth idea at some point recently. I'll have to practice that some more. I've been reading Breath by James Nestor and he can't stop talking about how good nose-breathing is and how bad mouth-breathing is for all sorts of reasons.

Airfit f20 + soft collar had a plus for me: educated me to better-quality-not mouth-breathing; Can you share more info on how you got away from mouth-breathing? Things are going much better with the F20 + collar -- I'm consistently getting 4+ hours a night with the mask on. But I notice when I wake...

It's getting exciting around here! Slept about 3.5 hours last night with the full-face mask on. No major leaks, not many false centrals. Oct 9.png I can't remember why I took it off from 1am - 4am other than a routine of removing it for part of the night so I can get at least a little sleep. I remem...

I slept 2 hours last night with the mask on! This smashes my previous record of 20 minutes. Since we last spoke I tried a couple of nights at a static 6cm with 0 EPR, which didn't seem to help - so I switched it back to the range. I picked up a full-face mask (Resmed F20), which I've used the past 3...

_ what a context you have! I should have noted that most of the day was just me trying to get used to wearing the mask (which is why I removed them in the earlier screenshot). I had it on while watching tv, etc. I am pretty consistent with a 10:30pm bedtime and 8am wake-up. I used to fall asleep re...

mper!? wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:46 am

_aiming better interpretations on your charts, I was wondering if you could also add TV, Inspiration Time, and MV. And, also, always put your full day-night chart (context may turn out to be very important for interpretations).

Here you go -

Thanks Miss Emerita! Pillows whistling - I switched from a medium to a large and the whistling went away. Baffling doctor - yes, this is not the only thing I've been baffled by, which is why I have an appointment soon with a different doctor. Another experiment - tonight I'll set it at 6 with EPR of...

Thanks again mper!? Full Face Mask - I have been thinking about trying this and may call the supplier tomorrow. I know I'm at least partially a mouth-breather and I sometimes wake up when my mouth pops open. I'd really like to make a nasal mask work, but maybe I'm trying to adjust too many habits at...

Thanks for all your help so far. I'm still (at Day 20) treading water in about the same spot I was a week ago - an hour or more cycling through Drift Off / Gasp Awake, followed (sometimes) by a few minutes of sleep. Rinse and repeat. I visited the doctor last week and he changed the settings to a st...

_ to be more confident, would mind post some 10min-duration strecthes just prior your concentrations of CA's and during them? Sure - here's 1:30-1:40 (normal breathing just prior to a bunch of CAs): 1_30-1_40.png And here's 1:40-1:50 when the CAs start happening: 1_40-1_50.png _ have you been using...

You may have treatment onset central apnea. This may or may not get better with treatment. My wife was diagnosed with it when she first started treatment. Hers got better over a period of around four months. Oh, interesting. I'll look more into that. I found this on the Mayo Clinic site : "Treatmen...

Last night was encouraging. I still felt like I drifted in and out of sleep all night, but when I looked at the clock I was surprised to see it had jumped ahead. The biggest surprise was experiencing mostly-uninterrupted unconsciousness from about 3:05am to almost 5am. I'm hopeful this means it's mo...

Miss Emerita wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:52 am

Quick question: do you know the breakdown of events in your sleep study (OA, CA, H)?

OA = 94
CA = 0
H = 53
AHI = 23.1/hr

Thanks for the article - I'll check it out.