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what were your numbers?

Posted by GBoogie on June 26, 2001 at 16:04:55:

In Reply to: effectiveness of CPAP posted by mrchirpy on June 26, 2001 at 09:32:35:

OSA messes you up in at least 2 ways. First, you get REM deprived because of the arousals that occur. The brain does lots of stuff during REM that help you the next day. And, relatively speaking, you get more REM toward the end of the night. Unless you take your mask off.
Second, you may have significant oxygen desaturations because that mask is on your night table and not your face. Everybody's different and you can find out how many and how severe your desaturations were, but some people's lips turn blue from O2 depravation before their body wakes them up again. If that's what happens to their lips, I'd hate to see what's going on in their brains.
Try to keep it on all night tonight.
Good luck.

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