Hi, I wanted to update on my progress! I went through a few different masks and pressure settings before I have found one working for me. Took me long enough to get used it and find what works for me that I was deemed non-compliant by my DME/insurance. After trying to appeal, I was unsuccessful and was told I'd have to do a new sleep study to re-qualify. Well, my Oura ring was reporting more and more breathing disruptions than before I got my first study, so I was pretty sure a new study was not going to change anything and with my current insurance, a new study would cost me $1000 out of pocket, which is obviously more than the cost of a brand new CPAP machine. So long story short, I'm now the proud owner of my own machine to use as much or as little as I please. Ironically, I've been 100% compliant since getting my own machine - I really had needed just a little more time to get used to it. I'm using it most of the night and I'm not having issues waking up feeling like the pressure is too little or too much. I don't think I'm waking up much more than I would have without it so that's all good progress!
Anyway, I have a few questions for you folks. I've been looking at my OSCAR data and I think things look good. But I wanted to ask, in the first screenshot, it appears that my breathing is getting more shallow, my CPAP machine increases the pressure, and it seems that it has prevented me from having a full apnea event. Am I interpreting that graph correctly?
In the second screengrab, can you help me interpret what's going on with the mask leak and the apnea? It seems like a small leak but did my CPAP misintepret the leak as an apnea event or did the increase in pressure possibly cause my mask to leak?
And finally in the third grab, what's happening with my breathing around the clear airway event? It looks like my CPAP machine "missed" it and didn't increase the pressure, is that right?