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Hi all!
29M diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea. Attaching my diagnosis, initial study, and last night on my BIPAP.
That last 3 nights I think look good but I am still so tired and foggy.
Any suggestions or should I be expecting to feel better yet?
Also, with central apnea happening, brain MRI and echo are normal. Concerned what could be happening.
I am not a Central Apnea person.
Are you 29 years old?
For OSA
It is going to take several weeks to a few months for you to feel better. If you feel better week to week you are doing good. Its not an over night thing.
Based on the supine vs non supine along with the Max pressure being hit to the roof. I suspect you have Positional Apnea. Although you dont have any clusters. http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php...onal_Apnea
You might start trying a flatter pillow. or try to side sleep as much as possible.
It appears you don’t have central apneas turned on to display in OSCAR. Look at the bottom of a daily view for a small gray box under the labels for the charts that has a checked box to the left of 3 letters followed by a down arrow. Click the down arrow and make sure that CA is checked.
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I assume this is a new machine? If so events that have NEVER happened before will not be listed, once you have a central (or other type event) for the first time it will always show after that.
Your sleep study shows clearly mixed/complex apnea, not obstructive. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have anything fundamental wrong, but it's good they're looking into the central events.
That said, AFAIK, the ST doesn't identify central events. I just lists apneas (as obstructive) and hypops. I may be wrong but that's what I think I remember.