Hello everyone, it is my first post here.
I'm living in london.
I have been diagnosed with severe sleep apnoea and severe lack of oxygen.
I have started the therapy since December 2016.
I one big question related to the story below:
I have started my therapy using a variable pressure machine. After 2 weeks, my setting where found to be 11.2. So then they give me a CPAP machine with air humidifier.
Until february, I was sleeping good/perfectly, sometimes waking up because of mask seal, but when I was waking up on the morning I was fully energised. Like jumping out of the bed, being happy and so on.
I was even sleeping sometime with 0 L/min pressure leak. (rare).
Since February my sleep has degraded, I still don't fall asleep during the day, my brain is functioning normally at work however but I don't feel fully energised like the first 3 months and my general mood has degraded as well.
I have as well since Feb, raise the setting of the humidifier from 4 to 6, as before at 4, I was dribbling saliva in the mask (in my mouth), and since now I wake up on the morning with dry lips or dryness in my nose. I can't put the setting at 8 (maximum) because after the water start to condensate around the valve (clapet) before the mask and it start whistling, waking me up.
The 2nd things I noticed, it is that the air flow seems less important as soon as I start the machine. Before it would flow in my mouth while breathing with my nose with the mouth open and now it barely flow on the lips. It is like the air is still pressurised but I get less air in.
Unless my body got use to the air flow and now my airways do not open so easily.
The 3rd thing, is from the myair screen, since I monitored the changes, I never reached again a 0 l/min the best I can do is 1 l/min when I m sure at 100% I don't leak during sleep.
However, my event per minutes are still around 0.X and 2 max.
I don't what to do, I have already spoke about that to the nurse and she has given me a tube that heat the air to avoid condensation but the connection between the valve and the tube leak a lot of air and after a week using it I started falling asleep at my desk.
Should I request an oximetry, a swap of machine? or maybe ask for test again the variable pressure one?
or maybe this normal?
Thanks a lot for your help.