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How to reduce my events while using my Cpap

Sleep Health | Last Active: Apr 3 2:09pm | Replies (128)

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@wr61

Try a soft cervical collar. learn to use OSCAR to analyze your data. If your # of obstructive events look like this on the graph //// /////// / ///// you are chin tucking, closing the airway. Worked for me.

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OSCAR for me has been a very useful thing especially when the time in synched with my fitness tracker. It allows one to see if changes they make to their routine help or not. It takes a bit to understand the graphs and the event types, but it's worth the time.

I found that my sleep events are terrible when sleeping on my back and good when on my side. Like night and day. A soft collar didn't help with my chin-tucking, although it does for many.

Also when I get a cluster of obstructive apnea events, it usually wakes me up - as in a "get out of bed, make a stop in the bathroom and go back to bed" awake.

Also found few to no large leaks, but several non-large leaks which adjusting the mask a bit tighter helped.

Sleep med had bumped my pressure from 8 to 9, then 9 to 10, which didn't help much if at all, so I'm seeking a bump up to 11. Doc wants me to sleep on my back, but pain forces changing to my side, then changing to the other side and back to the back. - then repeat. It's a bit similar to sleeping on a rotisserie!

I was kidding with my sleep med doc about having a "million dollar idea" of building an AI app to analyze the plethora of CPAP data and make a recommendation.