Nitpick: EPR, not ERP. And, I nitpick things like that because if you decide to do some googling to find out more, you'll not get many, if any, good results with misspellings.
Exhalation
Pressure
Relief...
KnightSleeper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:45 am
At that time, my pressure takes a good swing up which I guess is normal when you wake-up. Based on my pressure graph, I just might have woken up at 5 and 5:30 too... ?
Might be you woke up at the end of a REM cycle, (which is normal, you're awake, or just *barely* asleep in between sleep cycles). and maybe you need more pressure during REM (common). so, it might not be waking up that's causing the pressure to rise.
KnightSleeper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:45 am
I'm not sure anything that significant is showing up in last night's graphs vs prior night's...? AHI did go from 3.37 to 2.21, so that's a step in the right direction. And leaks seem to be under control...a benefit of using the p10!
Well, your nights are going to vary... that's why we want to work on averages.
KnightSleeper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:45 am
I'm thinking of using a 1 ERP tonight to see the "comfort difference". I really didn't notice much difference between the two nights breathing on exhale...maybe just slightly more force needed to exhale last night, but not really bothersome...
EPR is, like I said, mainly a 'comfort' thing, and that's very individual... like humidity, some people really need it, some don't. The only way to figure out what *you* need is to experiment. I can't remember if you can change EPR while the machine is running.
KnightSleeper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:45 am
It seems sometimes when awakening, like this morning, a number of "events" pop-up after you're awake. Of course, this doesn't always happen. Is it better to shut things down sooner when you're going to be getting up, rather than just chillin' thinking you're going to get some easy road ahead with no events?...lol.
Well, it depends on whether you're chasing numbers or not
Since you're awake, and you know you're awake, any flagged events don't count, and what we're really concerned with is sleep...
I use the AHI as a high level indicator about whether to dig deeper, but I don't worry about it too much, what's important is what the chart looks like, not trying to sum it up into a number. Plus, since breathing gets wonky both as you're going to sleep, and waking up, I usually don't pay much attention to anything happening at the beginning and end of the night.
KnightSleeper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:45 am
Do people ever use a notepad/journal type thing where they make a quick note about waking, etc... or would that be too disruptive to the whole process?
Certainly, some folks just use the notes in sleepyhead so they can go back and look at a chart, and then remember how they felt... "feel good today" "had too many drinks last night, feel bad" and get a correlation between what the charts looked like and how they felt.
Any kind of journal helps you to be mindful of what you were doing, and how it might have impacted your sleep, and how you feel as a result.
Is that what you were asking?
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