Fascinating. My doc said he wants people to have an AHI of 5.0 or less. Mine is typically less than 1.0, occasionally in the 1.0 range, he says he is not worried about me anymore.rick blaine wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:10 amMost practitioners in the NHS now work to 5 or under, regardless of other conditions. Most of the regular contributors to this forum – and also the author of Sleepyhead – have better ambitions than that– and say 2 or under. As to wanting to sleep more, some people do find that, once they get CPAP to work well, they go through a period of sleeping more. But it is usually only for a period.
I do wear my APAP when I take a nap. He didn't say I should, I just do. I figure sleeping and APAP go together, it needs to be a habit. I don't regret it.
Do I sleep better? Sometimes. After a month on the APAP, I returned to the doctor and he said, how are you sleeping? I said I get about four hours of sleep and then I am so sore, I wake up and have to walk around to relieve the soreness. He laughed and said, yes, that is the number one complaint I hear from new CPAP users. He said it is normal. So, I also get migraines - far fewer of them, I must say since using the APAP, which is a good thing - but those get me up. I'm not complaining, the fewer migraine headaches - down from four or five a week to two a week is worth it. Ten years of four a week and now I only get two? Its a godsend. I'll take it.
) and I told the woman I spoke to that I had adjusted the humidity, the temperature - not the air pressure, to be fair - and she was fine with that, in fact she was great, listened to me, gave me advice, and following that I'm no longer getting the daily headaches I was.
