Pressure pulses waking me up?

[Emmers]

Hi! I need some help. I've been using my bi-pap for a few months now and I'm still having problems adjusting, especially when I travel. This just happened the past two weeks. I won't sleep well the first night. (I heard a recent study, by the way, about why this happens. Turns out we only sleep with one side of our brain when we sleep in a new place. Researchers said this is involuntary and happens to everybody. Nice to know I'm not strange, at least in this regard! Off topic but interesting.) Anyhow, I wouldn't sleep well the first night in a new place. During the day I'd be really busy chasing my 2 young kids, no naps, etc. so would be really tired the 2nd night. Then I would have a terrible night's sleep on the bi-pap. (I'm using a bipap because the APAP was giving me aerophagea. I still get some aerophagea on the bipap if the exhale pressure goes much above 4, which is a pretty limiting range but usually works for me.) My stats showed a lot of "clear airway" events those nights, with an accompanying high number of pressure pulses. I am wondering if the pressure pulses are waking me up, or at least partially arousing me. I've felt pressure pulses before, just as I fall asleep. Just as I fall asleep, my breathing must slow down, and the machine puffs some air in. It startles me when it happens, I take a deep breath (which the machine is not anticipating and does not increase the inhale pressure at the same time) and then I have a hard time falling asleep again. I am a super light sleeper. I don't know what to do about this. I will include a screenshot. I'm using a dreamstation and I'm not terribly fond of it, but the doc thought it would be best for my aerophagea. Any advice? I am at the point that if someone would hit me on the head before bed with a hammer and it would let me sleep for 8 hours, I'd do it.

[ChicagoGranny]

We can help you better if we can see the whole night's graph. Also, use these directions to format the chart:

On the left side turn off the calendar by clicking on the triangle by the date.
Also the pie chart doesn't give us very much info so you can turn it off by going to File - Preferences -Appearance - Uncheck Show event break down pie chart
That allows us to see the machine details on the left.

The graphs that are usually helpful are:
1. Event Flags
2. Flow Rate
3. Pressure (not mask pressure)
4. Leak
5. Flow Limit (only with Resmed machine)
Put your graph in that order by grabbing, by the labels, with your mouse and dragging it where you want it.
Now grab the line between the graphs and resize them until you get them in one screenshot.

Take a screen shot after you organize your graphs.
F10 will close the right sidebar ( or click file - view - uncheck right side bar).
F11 ( or click file - view - check fullscreen toggle) on your keyboard before you take your screenshot and it makes it full screen with no ID info.
Take a screenshot by pushing F12 or under View - click on Screenshot
Screenshots are found on my computer under Documents - SleepyHeadData-Testing - Screenshots

Then at Imgur you have to sign up for an account then sign in. upload your pic.
Click on the triangle by your ID in the upper right corner and a menu will drop down.
Choose Images this will take you to a screen with your uploaded images on it. Click on the image you want.
Click on Large thumbnail then copy the Linked BB code into your reply. Here is an uploaded screenshot for example.