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What's up everyone.

I've been using my CPAP machine for about 3 weeks now. So far, I'm really liking it. However, I still don't feel like I'm sleeping well. OSA is seemingly gone, but I'm concerned that I'm still having central apneas at the same rate as before I started the machine. Below is my OSCAR data from this past Wednesday. I would say that it is representational of my average night, around 8ish AHI with a majority of the events being Central. Also, I noticed that an overwhelming majority of Central events occur seemingly before I fall asleep. I do seem to forget to breathe sometimes if I'm not thinking about it, but it is surprising that it is registering that many events.

I'm wondering if there's any reason to be concerned based on my rate of central apneas after I do fall asleep?

Also, are there any settings that might help things?

Any feedback/advice is appreciated.




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I recommend you bring your minimum pressure up to 6 and raise your maximum to 9. I normally recommend maximum pressure of 20, but I doubt if you will need much over 9. You are bumping up against the upper limit of 7 quite a number of times.

Awake breathing is very irregular when compared to asleep breathing for most people.
The machine only measures air flow. It doesn't have a clue if we are awake or asleep. Those irregularities present in awake breathing get flagged because that's what the machine does...flag irregular breathing. It just calls them like it sees them.
Doesn't surprise me one bit that you get a lot of flagging going on while awake. Awake breathing can be very irregular and the machine's job is to alert to irregular breathing....it's simply doing its job.