Good Data / Bad Night?

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plr66
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Good Data / Bad Night?

Post by plr66 » Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:43 pm

Can't quite figure this out, so I wonder if some of you can point out what may be perfectly obvious, but as yet eludes me. This data report shows one of the lowest AHI's I've had in 3 months (although I have been consistently in the area of 0.7--2.0 for the past month or so). But I feel worse today than I can remember since the first PB 420E disaster night when IFL1 was turned on and shouldn't have been. I have been back on my Respironics (below) for 3 nights, using auto cpap (no flex) set at 10-20--same as I used for the prior 2 weeks with the 420E. Same Swift LT mask as always, but that's been showing leak rate that is a tad higher than usual (manufacturer recommends ~31 for pressure of 10). Same amount of sleep as always, though I went to bed about 1 1/2 hours later than usual. Last night, I woke up sweating for the first time since starting cpap 3 months ago. Slept pretty well overall, however. Woke up this morning and looked and felt like I'd been run over by a mack truck. Puffy, blotchy face, huge bags under my eyes, and the return of the dreaded foggy brain!!! Took me half the morning to figure out how to upload an image of my data report here. I'm truly not kidding. I'm going to enjoy looking at in my post, since I may never be able to figure out how to do it again!!
Ideas??
Is this bad night just an aberration I should ignore?

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Re: Good Data / Bad Night?

Post by Hawthorne » Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:58 pm

Sounds like a night you should ignore! As you said, the data is very good but you don't feel like it was very good! I've had those nights!

Going to bed an hour and a half later MAY have sometihg to do with. Even people without sleep apnea have bad nights! There are so many things that can affect our sleep even when the data shows that the therapy is good.

I have no other advice except to consider it just a "bad night" and keep monitoring.

Hey! I hear you about having trouble posting data here sometimes!!

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Re: Good Data / Bad Night?

Post by WearyOne » Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:02 pm

I can't really help much with an answer, but just thought I'd say you're not alone. This happens to me at least once a week. I feel miserable when I get up and just KNOW that my data is going to be horrible---and it's great. I usually don't have high AHI whether I feel bad or good, but my vibratory snore index can get up into the 50's, and I'm beginning to think that is a contributing factor for me. Not always, though. Image

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Re: Good Data / Bad Night?

Post by plr66 » Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:40 pm

Thanks to both of you for your responses. I've needed to be told more than once lately to just ignore certain things in the data.......It's just that this all looked so good, it makes no sense to me that I can feel this yukky. WAAAAA!!
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Re: Good Data / Bad Night?

Post by ozij » Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:10 pm

That data certainly says "not me, not me..."

Maybe you're coming down with the flu?

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