Thanks Pugsy.
I did a sleep study, the doctor called in an order for those setting. I was never attached to a CPAP during the study itself. From the study (sorry if I miss something) 0 Apneas, 0 mixed Apnea, 0 Central apnea, 111.0 hypopneas for AHI of 13.9. Diagnosis OSA 327.23. There as also 1 pulse ox event where I got down to 75% SPo2. Just as a note (since it seems to matter from what I read here) I am a side sleeper almost exclusively. They had me on my back for some of the study which seems to make this worse. The bed was one of the worst pain inducing beds I have slept in in years.
Basically I find myself waking up far more often. Typically 4-5 times isn't irregular. There are times where if I look at the clock and it is past about 3am (have have that 4 hours compliance....) I will just turn the machine off and toss the mask on the dresser and go back to sleep and sleep solid until my alarm goes off for work. Some times the machine wakes me up, normally when it does, the pressure is up around 10.5 cm/H2O and the whistling of the vent on the hard plastic piece (not a leak) wakes me up. Other times I get hooked on the hose. I tend to sleep on my side with my nose in the pillow a bit and it pushes on the mask, which often wakes me up. If I roll over, the mask jerks on my head, I wake up. It has been leading to a lot of frustration. This whole process has lead me to buying a pulse ox which I configured to alarm at 88 because I have begun napping a lot more than I used to and I nap with out the unit because it generally is the only way I feel awake and I was worried about the low sleep pulse ox readings.
Hopefully this is better, I couldn't find "flow limit" as a graph.
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Thumbnail.... URL until I figure this out. Success?
I'll set the machine to 7.5 and see how that goes. Since my doctor couldn't bother to get me in for another 3 weeks... guess I have to take it in to my own hands.
