Setback - Help Please

So the past week I've been in Cape Cod, MA. My AHI has been 2-ish every night. I'm normally .3-.8 and I'm experiencing a little energy each day. I don't have my SD Card reader so I have no clue what my data shows.

No dry mouth so mouth-breathing unlikely.
Brand new nasal pillows so doubtful that's the issue.
Sleep habits and diet are the same as home.
We're right on the ocean and humidity is slightly higher than home.
No A/C at rental unit (we have central A/C at home).
My humidity setting is 3 (same as home).

Any thoughts on what I can try. Lack of good sleep is starting to take its toll.

Thank you!!

May seem a bit silly and be off course, but I find things can change if I even gain 5 lbs or so, and I inow if I was on holiday I'd be eating my head off. Any chance of that there? But in any case, 2 is not a terrible thing, I'd wait til I got home to see if it normalizes.

2ish is normally a pretty good AHI. I sleep really well with 1.5-2.5 average. Probably just the fact that you are sleeping in a strange environment.

I assume you are in the autopap-mode. What's your 95 percentile? If it hasn't increased (and you are covered on the top-end of the auto pap), then I would bump up my lower setting and see if it helps until you get home and look at your numbers. If the 95 percentile appears to have drifted up, then the upper setting may need a slight bump up.

Sheriff

caffeinatedcfo wrote:So the past week I've been in Cape Cod, MA. My AHI has been 2-ish every night. I'm normally .3-.8 and I'm experiencing a little energy each day. I don't have my SD Card reader so I have no clue what my data shows.

We're right on the ocean and humidity is slightly higher than home.
No A/C at rental unit (we have central A/C at home).
My humidity setting is 3 (same as home).

Ocean air and humidity and lack of AC can do a number on you. Ocean air alone will have the mundanes(non pappers) feeling sleepy and lethargic. Just being on holiday can have one feeling sleepy and lethargic because you don't the adrenaline surges from work stress. Lack of AC can mean less good sleep until your body adjusts.

With your S9, press the two silver buttons until the screen flickers, then you can set it to the 1 day data and scroll down to see what the 95% pressure and leak numbers are. Also, it will give the AHI central number, so you can have a simple breakdown for the AHI of 2. With the warmer humid nights, maybe you are just having less restful sleep, more wake-up creating centrals. I only mentioning this data as it took me a year to discover that I could do this!

Ok, what do the differences look like:

In altitude

In Temperature

In humidity and air content

In normal sleep times

In your own excitement level

In the amount of sleep you have gotten in the last several days

the crazy thought "levels of romance" keeps coming to mind?

I would think the new bed, sleeping with the windows open and hearing ocean noises and just other not "normal" sleep patterns will cause the tiredness you are experiencing.

Enjoy your vacation!

-tino

Thank you all. All this time and I never realized I could get that much info off the S9 menu (CA breakdown, 95% pressure, etc). I checked out daily and week data and it turns out therapy is normal except for an avg of 1.2-1.5 CAs this week. So yeah, seems to be simply environmental - different bed and weather conditions. No weight change as I am continuing good eating habits as well as my exercise regimen.

Thanks for the help!

Heck, I record my nightly readings that only display on the machine's screen. I record my AHI, Apnea incidents, Central incidents, 95 percentile - when in autopap, leak rate hours slept and bathroom trips. I have only looked at the data from the memory card probably twice, when I felt something was wrong. Works for me... besides.... mamma didn't go fer none of those new fangled puters'

Sheriff

Sheriff Buford wrote:Heck, I record my nightly readings that only display on the machine's screen. I record my AHI, Apnea incidents, Central incidents, 95 percentile - when in autopap, leak rate hours slept and bathroom trips. I have only looked at the data from the memory card probably twice, when I felt something was wrong. Works for me... besides.... mamma didn't go fer none of those new fangled puters'

Sheriff

I agree...I look at the AHI reading each morning. I really don't care what my readings are unless I have a bad sleeping night and a higher than 5 AHI. My average AHI is 1.5-2.5 with an occasional 3-4 popping up...I really can't see the value in keeping records. The only number that is important is the current one. What's the value in knowing what your AHI was 6 months ago???

Yeah, I started doing that a few months ago as well, spend a minute just after I get up auditing the LED screen on the AutoSet *smile*. You just have to pay attention to the period after you've unplugged and re-plugged the machine back in, since it goes back to the default period of "1 month". If you really want daily information when you're on vacation, moving your CPAP around with you, be sure to reset the period of the readings back to "1 day" *smile*.

Very useful. I still look at the resscan graphs about once a week, or immediately if I see something odd in last night's sleep, but it is great to get immediate feedback on leaks, centrals, etc.

Slept well after the reality check here. I donned foam ear plugs and those phony CAs went away and I slept my normal night with AHI < 1. Thanks again!