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Re: Newbie w/questions

Posted by SleepyTimeGal on December 07, 2007 at 09:25:53:

In Reply to: Newbie w/questions posted by chazbaz on December 06, 2007 at 13:25:45:

Losing weight may or may not cause your OSA to disappear. OSA also depends on internal physiology. Many thin people have OSA. What losing weight might do, however, is lower the pressure needed to maintain an open airway. Conventional wisdom is to be retitrated when one has lost 20 pounds or more.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see why you'll need to measure your blood oxygen once you're on CPAP. As long as your breathing isn't interrupted, your blood oxygen should be maintained. If it isn't, you have some problem other than OSA. Your titration study should have shown whether your oxygen dipped once the OSA was under control.

A poster named Bird Watcher advocates a rather extreme diet that he claims will reduce apneas, though he's never substantiated that with any numbers. If you've been researching on this board, you may have already found it.

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