Hyperventilating while sleeping

Hello -- I have been on my CPAP machine for 7 weeks. I can honestly say there has been no change in my level of fatigue and I still wake up multiple times a night. One thing that has gotten WORSE is my asthma. I have been a lifelong asthmatic. My symptoms were extremely well-controlled prior to using CPAP with medication and breathing exercises. My normal respiration rate at rest is about 8 breaths a minute. I wake up most mornings hyperventilating and unable to catch my breath. I have gone from a "once a week or so" rescue inhaler to daily. Thanks to the sleephead software, I know I'm not hallucinating this. I am attaching (hopefully) a screen shot. "overbreathing" is common in asthmatics and changes our blood pH... while I appreciate that apnea is bad, I don't think this is particularly healthy either. My theory is that the constant CPAP pressure is messing with my internal breathing regulator. Any advice would be appreciated.

The screen shot needed to better understand your data is shown in the example given here...

https://sleep.tnet.com/resources/sleepyhead/shorganize

That shot will help evaluate what is going on.

HoseCrusher wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:07 pm

The screen shot needed to better understand your data is shown in the example given here...

https://sleep.tnet.com/resources/sleepyhead/shorganize

That shot will help evaluate what is going on.

Hi there - my apologies for the delayed response. I was set up to be "pinged" when someone replied and somehow, it's not pinging me! First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I am attaching the requested screen shots. any help would be welcome.

Fiji wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 05, 2018 6:10 pm

noise wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:07 pm

The screen shot needed to better understand your data is shown in the example given here...

https://sleep.tnet.com/resources/sleepyhead/shorganize

That shot will help evaluate what is going on.

Hi there - my apologies for the delayed response. I was set up to be "pinged" when someone replied and somehow, it's not pinging me! First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I am attaching the requested screen shots. any help would be welcome.

If you'll compare those to the examples, you'll see they don't match up.