Go to the Drs office and ask for a copy of the sleep study. Mine was like four pages, interesting reading. The pressures determined in the sleep study are a good starting point, but you can do a better job titrating your pressures over a period of weeks than the sleep tech can do based on one night, if you're so inclined.
Some people like to play around with it and get it perfect, they're usually the same people who seek out internet discussion forums on various topics. Some people (like my dad) just want to get adequate sleep so exhaustion doesn't ruin their lives. Me, I'm in the camp of "why have AHI of 1 or 2 if I can have zero, or 0.2, at a lower pressure with less discomfort?" If AHI is under 5 it's considered controlled. Over 40 is considered severe. Mine was 45 in my initial sleep study. Now it runs 0.1-0.5 most of the time, with a rare night 0.0, and sometimes AHI hits 1 or more, but that's rare too. My machine logs an event if it lasts over ten seconds. The vast majority of my logged events are 11-12 seconds, which means they barely made it into the log. It does make me wonder how often I stop breathing or have reduced airflow for 8-10 seconds at a time and it doesn't get logged. At any rate, with the APAP machine, I NEVER have breathing disturbances that last long enough to affect my blood oxygen levels, and in my sleep study I did have reduced oxygen levels without treatment. Mitch. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
