Got dianosed with severe obstructive, have questions

[Nimbus]

Ok, got my reader. I think this is the last question I'll have for a while. What type of report/information do you all like to see posted here from ResScan? It all imported fine, just curious to get input on how it is going.

I think otherwise I'm good to go for everything to just give this treatment a shot and see how it shakes out.

Thanks again everyone for your support!

[zoocrewphoto]

Sorry about that, certainly a newb mistake. I've added the information.

I am almost definitely breathing through my mouth. Not trying to obviously, but it is why I got a full mask to begin with. (Significant Other pointed it out for me.). Still having the dryness, so not sure if I just need to live with it or what. Should I up the setting to 5 or even 6? I've heard bad things about getting it so high.

The only reason I mentioned the AHI is it went from insanely high to low with literally no involvement on my part. They picked a settings and magic. It sounded like it would take a lot more.

I'll get a SD Card reader and get a report going and post it up here in the next day or two tops.

About to head to bed, will try the EPR setting. I'll leave the CPAP at 13, was just hoping APAP would be viable given the issues. I'll wait though since I certainly don't want to make anything worse!

One last question and it is a bit of a doozy. My sleep schedule is uh.. Weird. I work overnights, so sleep mornings. Except during my weekend which is inverse of that. I also generally split my sleeping out of long standing habit to do so in order to not fall asleep and crash (Which hopefully will be fixed!). But my machine seems VERY confused about what is going on. It is switching 'days' mid sleep session. Is it possible to make it convert days over at like... 5-6 PM? Those are generally my only guaranteed awake hours.. Is my data getting botched due to this swap occurring?

Thanks for all the information again! You all are real life savers, especially you Pugsy!

My pressure settings were spot on when I was titrated, and they could see that I change position a lot, and my pressure needs changed a lot. So, I got an autoset machine set with a range. I went from 79 ahi at the sleep lab to less than 2 most nights, often less than 1. I believe I have had 4 or 5 nights over 3 ahi in the past 9 months. I could also look at my data and see the pressure graph going up and down during the night. I could see how the machine worked to keep me breathing well. I was very impressed

I also use a full face mask, and I did have some dryness issues. Not so much now. Part of it was experimenting with the humidifier settings and the temp settings to get it as ideal as possible. I still have it a little bit sometimes, but it rarely bothers me anymore.

I am a severe night owl, meaning I normally go to bed between 4 and 6 am. I did not like my day changing in the middle of my night. So, I reset the clock in the machine so that it thinks noon is at 3pm. I set it to make it 4pm, but it doesn't change with the daylight savings time, so I will eventually bump it another hour. I do sleep past 3pm sometimes, and I like to be able to look at my numbers when i get up.

You will need to go into the clinician's menu to change the time. And then make yourself a chart so that you can convert the times when you look at the graphs. You can't tell the software to change day at a different time, so all you can do is change when noon happens.