Good morning Apneaboard Community. I hope everyone is weathering the virus situation well.
I know I haven't been around for a while. I just felt I needed a break from
OSCAR and my obsession with the data, as well as all things apnea related. My meralgia has been kicking my ass and the condition is in need of most of my attention. I have just looked at my Oscar data for the first time in about a month and am trying to see if my current treatment is making any difference in the data.
I have had two visits with my new neurologist/sleep doctor. I had to change doctors because I just wasn't getting anywhere with the other doctors. My new doctor is mostly concerned with my parasominia (my sleep sitting yoga style). They insist that the parasominia is what is causing the majority of my sleep issues. I had taken still and video evidence, as well as my Oscar data to them on my first visit. They viewed my sleep data (not the Oscar data though,) and deemed me doing well with my sleep. I argued with them and they insisted my sleep issues all stem from my sleep sitting. At the first visit I was prescribed Clonozopam (Klonopin). 1/2 to one tablet at bedtime. This didn't seem to be helping much as I was still doing yoga sleep and having my meralgia attacks. I called them and they said go to 2 tablets of Clonozapam. This made me feel like I got hit by the proverbial truck. So I had a second appointment.
At the second appointment I told them that my meralgia attacks were still happening and they were as horrid as could be. I have residual discomfort all day in my leg. My husband was with me and told them I still was sitting up. I was prescribed Gabapentin and Baclofen to take with all my other meds, including one whole Clonzopam. These new drugs seem to be helping a bit with the sitting up and the attacks of pain. Although, I now am having symptoms of the meralgia in my other leg. I have a nerve test coming up in May and we shall see what those results will indicate. They INSIST that until my parasomina is fully treated I will continue to have issues.
Since I started the new drugs my Oscar charts reveal more nights with the mask on continuously. The AHI numbers for the most part are under 1. I still don't feel well rested upon awakening and I am still tired late at night, which is especially a problem with my night shifts at work. (I was told to be sure to bring my SD card for my next visit.). We did get into a little argument about how I didn't think my apnea was under control. I know they are just going by the numbers though and NOT the quality of the information. Please note that I actually got a good number of hours of sleep time for a change.
I am posting last night's charts for the heck of it. I won't be able to convince my doctors to view these charts and as I have said, they are convinced my apnea is under control. It is so interesting to me to see that the shape of my FLOW RATE is pretty much rounded until about 3:00AM + or -. Then for about an hour and a half I have a pretty funky FLOW RATE shape, then back to not as funky until I wake up. I viewed my video for last night and I don't see any reason why my FLOW RATE shapes should be so funky. So I just guess I'll have to live with my OSA the way it is
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