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Why do #'s change drastically?
I have only been using an APAP for 10 nights now.
The first 3 days averaged: AHI, 10.6; Total AI, 10.5 and CAI, 8.7.
Then the next 6 nights the #'s dropped (after I made a pressure change and stopped taking sodium oxybate) to an average of: AHI, 2.6; total AI, 2.3; and CA, 2.1. (The pressures were between 7.2 & 8.6)
Then last night it jumped way back up to AHI, 11.2; Total AI, 10.8; and CA, 9.5 with a leak of only 8.4 and a pressure of 8. No medicine, no pressure change, no ideas!
My pressure was set at 4-15 for the first 3 nights. Afterwards I changed it to range between 5.6 - 11.6, and that's when things seemed to get better. Until last night.
I cannot figure out what is going on. Does anyone have any ideas? Is it normal to fluctuate so drastically?
Thanks yet again!
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Permalink Reply by Judy on
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I'm too tired to think this thru thoroughly but the first thing that comes to mind is that we just do not sleep the same each and every night. I've had a string of good nights and then one or even two lousy nights of data and then back to good nights. I always figured the bad nights were the nights I spent more time than usual on my back or in REM sleep. Or maybe I experienced more restless legs than usual.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Callahan on
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What does leg movement have to do with the #s?
Judy said:I'm too tired to think this thru thoroughly but the first thing that comes to mind is that we just do not sleep the same each and every night. I've had a string of good nights and then one or even two lousy nights of data and then back to good nights. I always figured the bad nights were the nights I spent more time than usual on my back or in REM sleep. Or maybe I experienced more restless legs than usual.
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