Firstly a massive thank you to everyone involved in setting up and running this forum.
I am hoping to attach a copy of my sleep lab report.
From what I understand I was mostly having hypopneas.
I am a 40 year old, female with normal bodyweight. I had my tonsils removed when I was 20yo.
Unfortunately, I was suffering with severe fatigue/daytime sleepiness for many years before I finally had a sleep test.
And so for the last 10 years I have been struggling really badly with depression and ended up being diagnosed with bipolar disorder type 2/treatment resistant depression.
I started on cpap treatment 17 months ago and it made a profound difference to my tiredness and I have been able to go back to work part-time.
I live in a regional area in Australia and unfortunately the sleep specialist I went to in the nearest town is not very helpful. After my sleep study he saw me for about a minute and just said that it looked like I had sleep disordered breathing and that I could try cpap. I have not done any type of titration and he just said to have my machine set on the pressure= 6.
In Australia we purchase cpap machines from a chemist/pharmacist so I bought the one they suggested and tried a few masks and then settled on the nasal mask.
I started getting tired again a few months ago and realised my mask was leaking, I found out that I was supposed to have replaced the mask cushion- so I replaced it and then it seemed to be going ok again.
Then a few weeks ago I started to get really tired again. I was waking up with a really dry mouth and I googled to try to figure out what was going on and I am pretty sure I had started having a mouth leak. (I have never been a mouth breather before so I am not sure why all of a sudden I started doing this?). I have tried to figure out how to use OSCAR and have attached and overview and a closeup of a reading from around that time.
I have just been using some micropore tape to tape my mouth shut for about the last week and I am starting to feel less tired now.
When I found this forum I realised that there is a whole heap more information about sleep apnoea that I could know about so I have been trying to read up. I am wondering if I am having some issues with flow limitations? On the 6mm pressure I do feel sometimes like I need to use some effort to breath in and then to breath out as well?
I will try to attach some close ups of my flow rates.
Thanks again!