Unusual breathing patterns
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I have been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea for a few years and last year was diagnosed with Narcolepsy type 2 (meaning no cataplexy, but I have a shattered sleep/wake cycle and rarely get into deep, slow-wave sleep). Over the years, I have always had strange breathing patterns that look like Periodic Breathing except for the lack of part that would be no airflow. this is usually before, after, or surrounding a time when I have taken a huge intake of breath. Does anyone have any experience with this, and did you find out what it was? I did read about someone trying CPAP instead of APAP so last night I turned my Phillips Dreamstation APAP which had been min 8.5, max 12, flex 3 to CPAP with 9.5 and a c-flex of 3. The tidal volume went down but I still had many many repeats of that unusual breathing. My doctor wanted me to increase the min to 9.5, but I am wary of that as I get aerophagia. I am still having extreme sleepiness during the day and if I can't figure out a way to handle it with the APAP/CPAP my next stop is XYREM, which is rather scary for me, to be honest. Any help would be much appreciated
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I have been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea for a few years and last year was diagnosed with Narcolepsy type 2 (meaning no cataplexy, but I have a shattered sleep/wake cycle and rarely get into deep, slow-wave sleep). Over the years, I have always had strange breathing patterns that look like Periodic Breathing except for the lack of part that would be no airflow. this is usually before, after, or surrounding a time when I have taken a huge intake of breath. Does anyone have any experience with this, and did you find out what it was? I did read about someone trying CPAP instead of APAP so last night I turned my Phillips Dreamstation APAP which had been min 8.5, max 12, flex 3 to CPAP with 9.5 and a c-flex of 3. The tidal volume went down but I still had many many repeats of that unusual breathing. My doctor wanted me to increase the min to 9.5, but I am wary of that as I get aerophagia. I am still having extreme sleepiness during the day and if I can't figure out a way to handle it with the APAP/CPAP my next stop is XYREM, which is rather scary for me, to be honest. Any help would be much appreciated
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