Long time bipap user could use some help

Hi,

I have been doing CPAP/Apap and then Bipap for a long time. On CPAP for many years my cpap pressure gradually increased with the years, I then moved to Bipap about 12 years ago and my pressures have been static. I looked at my ahi regularly, they were generally low, and sleep doctors I had were usually happy with that. Now I still have a lot of days with low AHI (.5 to maybe 2 or 3) with a once-in-a-while a crazy outlier. I am writing this post because lately, I wake up once or more per night often times with no clear reason. It was about four hours regularly for a bit, but now maybe not quite as often lately or as regular, This started last August on and off and has continued until today. My blood oxygen is high all night; the lowest I have ever seen is 93% and usually, it's been 94% or 95% and never drops. My heart rate is also regular and low, I suspect I am in Rem sleep when this occurs as I usually come out of a vivid dream. When I wake up on a night this doesn't occur in the morning I never have any dreams going on and for most of my years on PAP that was the case. I don't know how accurate Fitbits are but, on some nights Rem looks very fragmented like its getting disrupted but keeps trying, and other nights better. When I look at my flow graph I see a lot of variable breathing and also regular breathing mixed in with flow limitations or some hypopneas or apneas that don't score because they don't quite meet the definitions but are there nonetheless. These kinds of non-events have been around for years when I wasn't having this waking issue. I use Resmed Aircurve 10 Vauto and Dreamstation Auto bipap. The Resmed tends to show less than the Dreamstation, but the same waking issues now appear on both. I am going to be using the Resmed for the foreseeable future as its simpler pressure support control makes it easier to experiment with. I include a couple of Dreamstation oscar reports. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I am wondering if it's something other than the machine or pressure as right before I wake up there is maybe one small non-event of some type and then I am awake and really wonder was it that little partial non-apnea? Is telling me the board upload quota has been reached so it's not allowing me to upload anything. Not sure if it doesn't like png files or what?

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BrianD wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:27 pm

telling me the board upload quota has been reached so it's not allowing me to upload anything. Not sure if it doesn't like png files or what?

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It means that the storage is full no matter what the file type or size.

Until people go into their own attachment storage and clean house and remove old non needed attachments no one can use the attachment feature.

Yeah, I saw your announcement post later after I wrote that, I checked it's not me, I have zero attachments stored at this point. Sorry about not seeing your announcement before I wrote that.