Ok last night was... well... interesting....
I am not counting the results for much other then perhaps an overall trend for tweaking min/max.
I had the cpap set too high for humidity or just incorrectly as it became a popcorn machine in sound and I had water in the tubing, thus the area in the early morning with an extended pause, getting the water out and trying to get the tube dry. I know the reports say i was at humidity of 4 that is not the case i set it to 4 for about 4 minutes to try and get the popping sounds to stop. Then put it back in auto/auto and continued the night, once I cleared the water out.
What I am seeing from last nights data as well as from last nights expierence overall is that my min is really a little to low. I felt like i wasnt getting quite enough air until i hit around 7.4 So i should tweak the min to 7.4
I also noticed that the few reras I got seem to occur when I hit the max pressure and it looks like the algorithym would like to go higher but cant due to the max limit I setl. So I should expand the top level just a tiny bit to 9.4
I was a little surprised to see that the flow limits on "for her" look considerably worse the "standard" mode and it seems to have also changed to soft as opposed to the standard autoset or regular or normal I expected. Not sure if its remembering something from past testing or if "for her" and soft just go together.
I know we really only want to make one change at a time so which should it be?
change min to 7.4 (tending toward this as ramping to 7.4 is not comfortable)
change max to 9.4 (also important as seems thats causing most of the rera's)
change "for her" back to standard
change "soft" to whatever default is
Like the above poster I want to just change it all and get one with it, but realize the benefit of patience and changing one setting at a time. BTW will leave all humidification settings on auto/auto going forward.
One last thought based on the poster who was on pain meds.....
I take tramadol and flexeril occasionally and have only taken them one time since being on cpap therapy. My AHI went from 1 or sometimes 2 (remember I have not found my golden settings yet) to kust over 20. Most of it being CA's. I dont know if this is helpful but wanted to let you know that at least in my one night case I did see a pretty major connection between taking my meds and seeing an extremely increased CA count.
Here are last nights charts:
Justr realized never said how I ended up feeling this morning....
Very tired, brain feels pretty fuzzy and feel very detached. Not as nautious or dizzy but not what I would call a good morning by any means.