RE: Adjusting for flow limitations
(03-25-2024, 10:41 AM)PeaceLoveAndPizza Wrote: Follow SleepRider’s recommendation for pressure changes. It likely will not reduce the flow limitations, but should help with sleep quality.
Flow limitations, as well as arousals and UARS, are interesting beasties to chase. There is a trade-off on managing them vs going after quality sleep. Just because you can reduce flow limitations does not mean you will sleep better, it just means you have managed flow limitations. Same for arousals.
Feeling rested, regardless what your machine or OSCAR reports, is our goal. We all get caught up chasing numbers, but it does not mean we had quality sleep. Quite a conundrum at times.
That makes sense. Numbers are fun but not the end goal. Feeling rested is hard bc of how subjective it is. I also take stimulants, which I think lead to fatigue at the end of the day regardless of my therapy. To be honest, my best indicator of therapy right now has been how bad my headache is in the morning (ranging from hit with a club to none at all). When my therapy goes well, I wake up without a headache, and I actually often forget to take my medication. Prior to CPAP, I needed it to even get out of bed, much less stay awake throughout the day.
I changed my settings but need a few more days before posting results as I have to temporarily be on a med that disrupts sleep
(03-25-2024, 12:41 PM)apnea505 Wrote: The Apple Watch really has been useless for helping with breathing issues at night. You really need a device that measures oxygen and heart rate continuously.
Yes, this is why I gave up wearing it, honestly. It wasn't giving me super useful information, and is an older model without the ability to do 02. Would love any suggestions you have for something else that would work better, I haven't looked into it much yet.
