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jasont wrote:Here are the past four days

Well, you are getting a low AHI and low leak rate - good! How do you judge your sleep quality and quantity? How do you feel the next day? Any excess sleepiness?

Many of us are uncomfortable with a minimum pressure below 6.0 or 7.0. Raising yours to 7.0 might also reduce the number of events you are having. It would also decrease the range of pressure changes. Your pressure approaches 12.0 at times. You do spend a good bit of time at 5.0, but I question whether you are sleeping at those times. You could try 7.0 minimum pressure for a night or two and judge the results the next day.

The EPR setting lowers the pressure on exhale for people who feel like they are having trouble exhaling. On the other hand, the changing of pressure on each breath disturbs some people. You could experiment with turning EPR off. I would do this as a second step after you have settled on a minimum pressure. It's best to change only one variable at a time when you are doing relatively well.

If you post more chart, it will make them easier to read if you only show these data lines:

1. Event Flags
2. Flow Rate
3. Pressure (not mask pressure)
4. Leak

Your CPAP therapy appears to be starting off very well.

Thanks - it is good to hear that I seem to be interpreting correctly that the therapy is going well. That leads me to feel that my current excessive daytime sleepiness has something to do with the reduction of stress hormones in my body. Today is the first day I've felt human all day since beginning the therapy.

I will try the pressure and EPR tweaks as suggested and see what the results are.

I'm not one of the seasoned experts, only been at this about 6 months, but 5.0cm seems like a low starting pressure. Sure looks like you are spending much of the night above that. Heck, a lot of people feel like they can't breathe on a pressure that low. But other, more knowledgeable folks will chime in, I'm sure.

I definitely went through a period after starting where my body wanted to sleep. A lot. I think a lot of it depends on your age, your health, the severity of the condition, and the quality of treatment, but yeah, there is such a thing as a sleep debt. And it takes some of us months to a year, if ever, to feel like we've truly paid it off.