Do these numbers look good?

[Golffor1]

Please forgive me for asking such a broad question, as well as this being my first image that I post. But I have been CPAP for right at 6 months, I have lost weight-(down 32 so far with about 15 more to go). I have been sleeping with my ResMed 10 for 6 months straight and a Full Face Mask for a good 5 months. Just recently I adjusted my humidifier to be on auto, I used to have it on 2 to save the water. My minimum is 6 and my maximum 14 if that helps, and I haven't ever adjusted anything since my Dr. prescribed

I am not sure if the equipment need to be changed as often as they say they need to be changed?
Here is the data from the sleepyhead

[Pugsy]

The numbers looks great.
How are you sleeping and feeling?
Any problems?

[Golffor1]

The numbers looks great.
How are you sleeping and feeling?
Any problems?

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Sometimes I can't sleep at night-(maybe once every 3 weeks I wake up every couple of hours). I think one night I woke up sweating.


As far problems I don't believe I have any...don't recall if I ever get into REM-(Sleeps that I remember dreams), and most of the time when I put my mask on I am out in 20-30 minutes tops.

[Julie]

Have you ever tried moving your min. pressure setting to e.g. 6, or even 7 (still very low as things go)? Just about all of us can't inhale at 4, though docs who don't umnderstand the machines well - believe they can catch up with any apneas even if those are at a high level (they can't) - so we bump the min. setting up a bit, and often go on to raise it higher in future. If you're sure you're being fully treated at 4, I suppose you could leave it there, but if there's any doubt, you can experiment for 1-2 nights and see how you feel after that.

[Pugsy]

The fact that you don't remember dreaming is actually a good thing.
We don't/won't remember dreams unless we wake up during one. To remember one means you woke up during one and wake ups need to be kept to a minimum.

It is normal to wake at the end of a REM cycle though. Normally we roll over and go right back to sleep but sometimes were are alert enough to remember the awakening.


Julie...the minimum pressure is already 6 cm.
The 4 cm you see as a minimum is nothing more than the drop because of exhale relief.

[Julie]

Makes more sense... couldn't imagine how he was doing so well at 4.

[TedVPAP]

Without seeing more data it is hard to know but my guess is that an increase in the minimum from 6 to 7 would improve the numbers from very good to great. Maybe. Maybe not. At some point, I would try it for a week.