Using machine but still waking up gasping for air

michael023 · Post by **michael023** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 2:46 pm

Hi.

I'm a 19-year-old male and I was diagnosed with moderate obstructive sleep apnea 3 months ago. I'm using a DreamStation Auto CPAP machine and a DreamWear Nasal Mask. As you can see in the image attached, I have a lot of events for the first one or two hours of sleep and then it normalizes. I wake up gasping for air many times in those two hours. I've tried everything, I've set the pressure to 6, 8, 10, enabled A-Flex, disabled it. Nothing seems to work.
What can be causing this? Thanks and sorry for my bad English.

LSAT · Post by **LSAT** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 5:41 pm

I would set the pressure at 9/20 and leave it there for several days. Try to avoid turning off the machine so often. Set A flex to 2.

djams · Post by **djams** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 6:57 pm

michael023 wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 03, 2019 2:46 pm
Hi.

I'm a 19-year-old male and I was diagnosed with moderate obstructive sleep apnea 3 months ago. I'm using a DreamStation Auto CPAP machine and a DreamWear Nasal Mask. As you can see in the image attached, I have a lot of events for the first one or two hours of sleep and then it normalizes. I wake up gasping for air many times in those two hours. I've tried everything, I've set the pressure to 6, 8, 10, enabled A-Flex, disabled it. Nothing seems to work.
What can be causing this? Thanks and sorry for my bad English.

Any idea what time you fell asleep last night?

Good for you getting started at such a young age. You're doing yourself a huge favor here. Assuming that you want to live a long, healthy life.

And your English is great, BTW. I saw your comment and it took me by complete surprise. Went back and re-read your entire post. You're good on the English. Maybe should say "poor English", but since you don't have poor English, you really don't even need to know that.

michael023 · Post by **michael023** » Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:32 pm

LSAT wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 03, 2019 5:41 pm
I would set the pressure at 9/20 and leave it there for several days. Try to avoid turning off the machine so often. Set A flex to 2.

That's the pressure I use normally. In the image it's set to 6/15 because I was testing if I didn't wake up with that pressure.
The weird thing is that sometimes I wake up once or twice and sometimes I wake up many times before falling asleep.

djams wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 03, 2019 6:57 pm

michael023 wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 03, 2019 2:46 pm
Hi.

I'm a 19-year-old male and I was diagnosed with moderate obstructive sleep apnea 3 months ago. I'm using a DreamStation Auto CPAP machine and a DreamWear Nasal Mask. As you can see in the image attached, I have a lot of events for the first one or two hours of sleep and then it normalizes. I wake up gasping for air many times in those two hours. I've tried everything, I've set the pressure to 6, 8, 10, enabled A-Flex, disabled it. Nothing seems to work.
What can be causing this? Thanks and sorry for my bad English.
Any idea what time you fell asleep last night?

Good for you getting started at such a young age. You're doing yourself a huge favor here. Assuming that you want to live a long, healthy life.

And your English is great, BTW. I saw your comment and it took me by complete surprise. Went back and re-read your entire post. You're good on the English. Maybe should say "poor English", but since you don't have poor English, you really don't even need to know that.

I went to sleep at 3:00 AM but I kept waking up gasping for air till 4:30 AM. So I fell asleep at 4:30 AM.
And I said that my English is bad just in case since English is not my first language

katestyles · Post by **katestyles** » Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:48 pm

michael023 wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:32 pm
I went to sleep at 3:00 AM but I kept waking up gasping for air till 4:30 AM. So I fell asleep at 4:30 AM.
And I said that my English is bad just in case since English is not my first language

It looks as if all those events at the start are before you fall asleep properly.

Once you are asleep, you do well with 10cm of pressure.

I agree with LSAT. Set the machine to min 9, max 20, let it do its job. Your job is to work on falling asleep.

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