Interpreting home study results

With everything going on, I am unable to get an appointment with my scheduling physician anytime soon to go over the sleep study results. (at the risk of sounding asshole, she would be no help either way) I can't get an appointment to establish care with a decent doctor yet either. I am capable of reading and googling so have somewhat of an idea of the results.. but wanted opinions now rather than later.

I have (hopefully) attached snap shots of all the important stuff aside from the graphs that came with.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OluI8ewDPJQbTbnDdxhxck2keXZIUCV2zZdAQ1wKmMM/edit?usp=sharing

History - 24m, wife says I snore a lot, I feel extremely tired in the mornings and less energetic throughout the day.

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Issues:

- I sleep on my stomach 99% of the night. Sleep study forced me to sleep on my back, causing me to wake a few times at night (maybe my body wanting to turn over and be comfy?) either way, not sure if this affected results.

- 28 respiratory events in 7.5 hours. 8 Obstructive, 20 hypopneas. Total respiratory event index was 3.72/hr. How does this compare? Is this good, bad, average?

- Lowest Sp02 was 85% time spent < 89% was 0 minutes ? sounds strange

- Oxygen desaturation index was 5.3 ?

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RESULTS - NEGATIVE for obstructive sleep apnea (wahoo), evidence of multiple airflow fluctuations that were concerning for the presence of increased number of respiratory effort related arousals (RERAs). Home study is limited due to lack of EEG and they recommend an in lab study for proper evaluation.

With all that said, without giving me doctoral advice or anything like that, can anyone explain

What the results actually say in people terms?
Any likely reason for the issues I do have?
What kind of solution would there be to stop what's happening (mouth piece or breath right strip?)

Does me sleeping differently during the test than I normally would affect the readings?

My only issue with this result is that, I slept like crap during the at home study, an in-lab study would be 100x worse (they are just normal hospital beds in a dark room where they do them) and I feel that can't yield very accurate results?

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