Like many people on this forum I am really suffering and am unsure of how to proceed. Desperate for some relief :/
At this stage I am not sure what to try next and any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm a 32 year old male, healthy weight, diagnosed with mild to moderate OSA via overnight sleep study. The study showed an AHI of about 15.
I am using a ResMed AirSense10 and have been experimenting with different pressure settings.
From looking at my OSCAR data (see below) I think all of the metrics look fine:
- Low AHI
- Low RDI
- Flow I think looks normal? I'm not sure.
- There is some flow limitation, but not consistent. I'm not sure if I'm reading that chart correctly.
I live at roughly 1 mile elevation in Colorado. Wearing a pulse oximeter while awake for about 30 minutes shows an average O2 level of about 94% with a min of 91%.
Wearing the oximeter at night, with a pressure setting of 6.0-7.4 or even 7.4 (no auto-set) sometimes resulted in good O2 levels throughout the night: average of 93% one time even 94% (same as waking O2) with a min of 89% or 90%.
But sometimes these settings will result in much lower levels, maybe an average of 92% with mins 86% or 87%.
So that's all of the info I have. What do you think?
Am I correctly interpreting the OSCAR data as saying I don't have a flow limitation problem?
Is there a reason my O2 levels would vary so much with the same settings? Am I possibly not getting enough air, and therefore should increase pressure?
I'm going to experiment with a higher max pressure plus EPR, starting at 1 and going up to maybe 3 or so to see if any of those adjustments make a difference.
Thank you in advance!
- Murph
PS - Sometimes I get aerophagia, but that also is not consistent. I've used a 7.4 setting a handful of times and it's about 50/50 if I experience it. Last night I tried a max pressure of 8.0 and only experienced minimal aerophagia. Not sure if that's a helpful clue.