I'm not getting enough sleep now.

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Noctuary
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Re: I'm not getting enough sleep now.

Post by Noctuary » Fri May 08, 2015 9:30 am

Question: Do you think the lowering the max pressure is the main reason you didn't wake up in the middle of the night and find yourself unable to get back to sleep?
I really can't say. Before I got this Auto Set I would wake up for awhile then fall back asleep. Now I can't fall back asleep. However one thing is different; I don't have that muscle fatigue; just tired, like how a normal person who didn't get enough sleep would feel.
And an observation: You are hitting the max pressure of 13 and staying there for some pretty extended times. But (and this is an important but) you report sleeping better (no hour long wakes) AND your AHI numbers are better than they were when the machine was allowed to go higher. The AHI is down because the number of CAs scored is way down, and the number of CAs scored is way down most likely because there are no extended wakes where you were trying unsuccessfully to get back to sleep. In light of the overall better sleep, you need to NOT get worried about sitting at your max pressure setting for most of the night. A lot of people around here tend to look at pressure curves like yours and insist that the max pressure needs to be raised. It doesn't need to be increased as long as you are sleeping better with the pressure sitting at 13 than you were when the pressure was allowed to max out at 15.
Okay, thanks, I will leave it at 13 max.

To be honest, though, I don't feel like I'm getting better. Just a different quality of tired. I would rather have the refreshed but fatigued feeling to tell the truth.

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Re: I'm not getting enough sleep now.

Post by Noctuary » Sat May 09, 2015 5:23 am

Looks like today will be NO sleep. This just keeps getting better.

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Re: I'm not getting enough sleep now.

Post by avi123 » Sat May 09, 2015 4:35 pm

My pressure curve also goes up and down like your but at lower pressures. At 2AM I must had a long obstructive apnea.

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I don't use SH. I don't think that the SH's Mask Pressure is meaningful in machines like the S9 Autoset.

Your graphs:

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Re: I'm not getting enough sleep now.

Post by palerider » Sat May 09, 2015 4:57 pm

avi123 wrote:I don't use SH. I don't think that the SH's Mask Pressure is meaningful in machines like the S9 Auto
ah, ignorance, it's bliss, isn't it?

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Re: I'm not getting enough sleep now.

Post by robysue » Mon May 11, 2015 6:48 am

avi123 wrote: I don't use SH. I don't think that the SH's Mask Pressure is meaningful in machines like the S9 Autoset.
Avi,

Are you aware that the Mask Pressure graph is also included in ResScan? It's typically a "hidden" graph, but it is there and it can be turned on. And SleepyHead's Mask Pressure graph is drawn using the exact same data that ResScan uses to draw its Mask Pressure graph.

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