What Can I Do to Mitigate Clear Airway Apnea Events?

[MikeekiM]

OK... Noobie question that may or may not make sense...

I notice that my data in OSCAR and SleepHQ show that most of my apnea events are not Obstructive Apnea, but mostly Clear Airway events...

I am sure without my CPAP machine, I probably have a lot of OA...

But now that my CPAP machine seems to be addressing most of my OA, is there anything I can do to mitigate the CA events?

Per my previous posts, I am still struggling keeping my mask on all night long...so I am sure I am experiencing OA events that are unrecorded... But I was curious what sort of strategies there are for the CA events...

Thanks!

[Pugsy]

Clear Airway events....central apneas.

There's not much we can do about them unless there is some minor setting on the cpap/apap machine that is the actual trigger so we can turn off or reduce that setting and have the number reduce.

First of all it's entirely normal to have a few real asleep centrals in the first place and there is no reason to panic or even do anything about a few centrals. It's NORMAL and to be expected. Quit worrying and move on.

The biggest part of the flagged centrals for MOST people isn't even going to be real centrals in the first place.
Watch the videos here
http://freecpapadvice.com/sleepyhead-free-software
Especially true when people aren't sleeping so great for whatever reason.

Centrals are NOT a problem unless present in large numbers, causing desats or in the case of sleep onset central (which is a normal central) are so numerous they keep us from actually transitioning to sleep.

If for some reason someone actually does have a problem with centrals it is easily dealt with by a different model machine but most of the time centrals are NOT numerous enough to be causing problems.
How many is a problem??? Doctors won't even raise an eyebrow until they see 5 or more centrals per hour averaged every hour every night and all night long....and even if they do raise an eyebrow they will most likely adopt a wait and see approach anyway. Some of the centrals are a symptom of poor sleep anyway and not the cause of the poor sleep.

For cpap/apap machine users...not much you can really do about centrals unless they are because of a specific setting on your machine and the chances of that is actually pretty slim.
If they are poor sleep related....obviously gotta figure out and fix the cause of the poor sleep.
If they are numerous enough to create a problem (as explained above) then there are a couple of things that can be tried to see if it helps or not but in general we can't expect to reduce centrals with pressure tweaks or anything like that.

[palerider]

OK... Noobie question that may or may not make sense...

I notice that my data in OSCAR and SleepHQ show that most of my apnea events are not Obstructive Apnea, but mostly Clear Airway events...

"mostly" doesn't mean anything.

If you have 4 events total, and 3 of them are centrals, then you've got "mostly" centrals, but in total, it's nothing.

Per my previous posts,

And this is why we ask people to stick to one thread.