It seems like the machine is preventing all of my OA events, but the CA is quite high. It was hard to fall asleep and definitely noticed some of the apneas while trying to fall asleep. The period from around 3:30-7:00 was after I woke up and finally was able to somewhat fully fall asleep. I felt so much better during my titration study, not sure what is different now.
I know that the machine cannot prevent CA events, is it normal to have so many and for the durations I have starting out? Will it get better? I desperately want this to work but I'm concerned now that maybe just an APAP cant solve my issues It also seems like with using the machine, I feel the apneas more than if I'm sleeping without the machine (if that makes sense) without the machine I don't really get fully awakened by events, just feel bad in the morning.
I will also note that my home is very dry (around 30% humidity) and I had a humidifier and set the machine to a high setting. I ended up getting rained out which woke me up too.
Thanks for any assistance!
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Also, here are my at home sleep study results:
RESPIRATORY DATA:
The study started at 01:06:36 and ended at 08:48:22 and the total recording
time was 457 minutes. By convention, sleep is assumed for the whole
recording. Snoring was noted. There was a total of 275 respiratory events. Of
these events, the total number of apneas was 54 (6 obstructive, 10 mixed, and
38 central) and 221 hypopneas. The respiratory event index (REI) was 36.1
events per hour of study time. The mean oxygen saturation during the study
was 92.0%, with a minimum oxygen saturation of 80.0%. The patient spent 44.3
minutes at oxygen saturation measured less than 90% (9.7% of recording time)
and 19.8 minutes at oxygen saturation measured at or less than 88% (4.3% of
recording time).