Please help
Good evening,
I'm very new to this so I have no idea what is what but I need some guidance.
I had my sleep study through NHS and they came back to me saying I have a number of 11 events per hour and a score of falling asleep of 6(I don't really know what it means).
They said this is mild apnea and they don't treat mild apnea which is fine by me.
I got a ResMed Airsense 10 Autoset and I started my journey. The first 2 times I tried to wear it I was just removing it in the sleep without remembering because every morning I was waking up without the mask. I think I had the wrong settings or something.
Anyway, now I started to use it again and I can see little improvements but I want to know if it is possible to tell from an OSCAR reading what sort of apnea I have? Or if is UARS? I also use an oximeter and while the oxygen doesn't drop very heavily throughout the night my pulse rate goes well under 50.
I have this gasps for air throughout the day, like a long yawing where I force myself to breathe in. I don't wear my oximeter during the day but I have done a test and I wore it for an hour before I made this post and my oxygen levels dropped to 93% for a brief period of time.
Also, I'm not overweight, I go to the gym and sauna 4 days a week and I eat fairly healthy. I drink alcohol once a month or less. My blood test looks good, maybe very slight high hematocrit but my ferritin levels are high in the 450. The doctor told me not to worry about it.
I will attach some of the OSCAR data and the oximeter data.
Any ideas or any input is very helpful.
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RE: Please help
The biggest problem I see is mouth-leaking. There are a few remedies. A chin strap or mouth tape, but I prefer a full face mask.
Your AHI was 11 during your your sleep study. This means that, on average, you had 11 events per hour. An event is either an obstructive apnea (OA) where your throat is blocking your airway, a central apnea (CA) where your brain is forgetting to tell your body to breathe (also called a clear airway apnea) or a hypopnea (H) where your airway is partially blocked.
Your AHI is very very low, which is good. It's dominated by CA's which is common during your adaptation to CPAP use and will probably soon drop. The thing you do during the day may indicate that you have central sleep apnea, but we would have to see the results of your sleep study to know that. Since the CPAP machine has significantly lowered your AHI, it's much more likely that you have obstructive sleep apnea since a simple CPAP machine cannot treat central sleep apnea.
Sleepster
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RE: Please help
Do your sleep study results indicate central sleep apnea? You had a AHI of 11. Was that mostly OA's?
Sleepster
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RE: Please help
I asked the doctor at the sleep center, and she said that my information are already in the archive and she doesn't have them to tell me exactly. However, she doesn't think it's central sleep apnea, as it is quite rare, and if it was, she would have made a note about it.