Thanks Rcgop, this is really interesting and I'm envious of those charts, looking really good. Thank you for sharing this with me!
I think I will gradually lower my max pressure until I start to see any H, OAs or large FLs appearing and not being treated properly. At the moment, I feel the large spikes in pressure don't help my flow limitation and actually just wake me up.
After that I will try lowering my min a bit also to see what happens. I think my main issue is positional apnea which is helped massively by the collar and just a low level of pressure. My nasal passage is not great and is often congested, which makes things tricky sometimes, and the higher pressures blasting in due to flow limitation or other reasons can actually causes more flow limitation problems because my nose just can't handle it - this is why I wear a full face which isn't so intense, rather than pillows where it comes in direct. I'm going to try the full nasal mask to see if that works, I think would be even better if so.
Having said all that, I'm new to all of this and still learning about how this all works, so forgive my ignorance if I'm not making sense with some of it...
It's all definitely a balancing act and everyone is so different. Thanks again for your response and everyone else's, I really appreciate it.
Honestly, my sleep specialist should study this forum to get more of a clue and actually get a sense of how differing people's situations are. Also, people who are diagnosed with sleep apnea or suspect they have it, should be directed here as a first step. it would save so much pain.
I was misdiagnosed by my sleep specialist with insomnia, even though I was sure I had some sort of sleep apnea and insisted on it, had to go to an ENT months after that to prove to my sleep specialist that it was sleep apnea... it's been a long journey that's for sure. I'm so grateful I've found this forum -
thank you ALL for your help!!
Attached my last night's chart for reference. Played a very intense game of basketball prior which I think caused me to wake up a bit more than usual, but numbers starting to look pretty good! EPR on 3 is better I think for me but will continue to experiment with this also at some point...
Rcgop, I think this is looking a bit similar to your charts before you lowered max pressure a bit, your thoughts?