Bad Night Last Night - Report

I am not sure why but I had what I would call a bad night last night. My SleepyHead report seems to reflect my experience. I am not sure what some of the starnge readings show.

It seems I had quite a few Central Apnea's.

The primary events/situations that I noticed last night were:

1) Approx. 12:35 AM I woke up and felt anxious. I got up and got a drink of water, used the rest room and went back to bed.
2) I can't recall for sure now (kind of a blur) but I got up again and got out of bed shortly after feeling anxious. I was up for about 30 minutes. I relaxed and got back in bed. Set my ramp for 5 minutes after not being comfortable with immediate full pressure. After a short time I fell asleep and stayed asleep intil about 5:25 AM when my alarm went off.

Interesting observation (maybe?)...... I felt anxious and slightly depressed yesterday. Some situations at work and with my personal schedule most likely brought these emotions on. (no big deal).

However, I thought it was ironic that I was anxious going to sleep, had a panicky wake up and my report showed some many CA's and strange readings.

So to offer some explanations for what we might notice on the report are:

1) I sat up in bed for about 10 minutes with the mask and pressure on (watching TV) to help me get used to the mask.
2) After going to bed I turned the machine off for a time while my wife and I waited for our son to get home from work. Very windy out lat night.

I think this explains the gap at the beginning of the night. The l;arger gap must be when I got out of bed for about 30 minutes and turned the machine off?

I'm wonering if all thos CA's are acurate seeing that I normally don't have many. Or, could my mood/emotions have been a factor?

The CAs might just be awake/semi awake (SWJ Sleep/Wake/Junk) breathing being flagged by the machine. Remember it doesn't know if you are awake or asleep so it can and will flag awake pauses in breathing as some sort of apnea event and most often it gets a Central (CA) flag.
If you look at the event graph and see clustering around the known awake time then we probably can blame those events on SWJ.
Crappy nights happen for any number of reasons. I still get them from time to time myself. Often if I have a "restless" night due to back pain the report will look a bit ugly but sometimes it looks ugly and I have nothing to blame. Crap happens.

Makes sense to me Pugsy. I know I still "sigh" quite a bit, which typically happens with me when I'm anxious. My thought is I have an elevated level of anxiety surrounding adapting to CPAP.

Slightly off topic but......

I have had 3-4 main events in my life where I experienced high anxiety and what I refer to as sleep panic attacks. I even went to counseling for a while to help me get over them and even took medication for a short time, a couple of times, before bed. I thought these were due to stress, etc. And they probably were in part as they did occur during very stressful times in my life: i.e. My wife working out of state for an extended period, my mother passing away, etc.

I got to the point where I couldn't even lay down..... I felt fear come over me and I would have to sit in my lazy boy all night.

Looking back, I am starting to think that undiagnosed OSA was really the culprit and the "tramatic" events just made things worse. The 2 combined created a breeding ground for panic disorder, depression, etc.