Need help for improving score

[DackJaniels]

Here is my OSCAR data , i would like some help for analyzing , a little lost with all those charts and i have no really idea if those are goods , since i'm still tired

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[staceyburke]

Your numbers look good but almost all are centrals. Centrals are not obstructive in other words there is nothing the your cpap can do to eliminate them. Centrals are when you just do not take a breath for at least 10 Seconds. You can see the length of each central by putting your mouse over the central and what is in the () is the number of seconds you did not breath.

There are cpap machines that will help you start a breath when you have a central but they are 2 to 3 times expensive as the regular cpaps. Can you tell us if your sleep study showed centrals? Some centrals are treatment emergent - meaning that you have them because the cpap is making you breath better and you are expelling more CO2. CO2 drives the need to breathe. And if they are treatment emergent central they will diminish as your body gets use to cpap therapy.

You do have a fair amount of flow limits, which are apnea also but smaller that the Oa and H events. You can see the way apnea is classified in my signature. Flow limits can cause people to wake up or just not get into deep sleep. The problem is to help the Flow limits we use EPR.

EPR is exhale pressure relief. That makes the exhale easier and as I said helps cut down on the flow limits. So most of the time we would have EPR set to FULL time (yours is ramp only now) set to 3. The problem with that is many times that causes more centrals because it drives out more CO2.

If you want to try EPR you sure can but again, your centrals may go up and if they do you should turn it back off until your body gets use to the therapy.