But now that the weather is changing I'm starting to have problems with my nose blocking up during the night.
Previously I had the clinic up the humidity a bit when it occurred, and over summer it seemed ok, but not doing the job now.
So I have found my way in to the clinician settings and set my humidity to 0. to see if that helps.
The hose is still set to adaptive heat mode, and I'm not sure if that overrides the main humidity setting and will turn the heat plate on under the water tank or not... guess I will find out tonight.
I will trial it with the humidity off for a few days (and switch the hose to Fixed if it turns the tank heater back on, that should stop it overriding the heater setting I think).
If that doesn't overcome my blocked nose then I will look at going the opposite direction and take it above the 4. it has been set on for the last few months, initially the clinician had started me off with it set at 3. when I first started on CPAP.
Fine tuning my treatment so far hasn't been an overly big task, so this issue will hopefully have an easy fix as well.
The only other real issue I've had was getting the mask adjusted correctly, and then finding it was actually a size to large for me, the smaller size mask finally overcame the pain and deep red mark between my eyes each morning.. no matter what I tried with the Medium size it still caused the pain and the mark.
One thing I'm finding is that I often get a sub 1.0 AHI if I only use the the machine for about 4.5 hours, 7>8+ hours has me at 1.2 to 1.4, and sometimes higher.. less hours seems to get 0.6 to 0.7 or lower.
It doesn't seem to matter what time of the night I start or finish using the machine.
Is there an explanation for that?
Or is it just something idiosyncratic to me personally?