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Re: sleep study results--disappointing!

Posted by chele on April 18, 2002 at 06:35:39:

In Reply to: sleep study results--disappointing! posted by Joy on April 17, 2002 at 17:40:03:

19x per hour, or 19x in the 5 hours?

More important question: Were you tested at a full-scale sleep center, or just a sleep lab? It can make a significant difference, how advanced the measuring equipment is that they use.

There has to be an explanation for such fragmented sleep. One possibility (not the only one) is that the testing lab failed to record all of your hypopneas (events where airflow is reduced, but does not stop as happens with an apnea event) or other, even "slighter" breathing disruptions that are still enough to wake you up or fragment your sleep. ... My first sleep test showed ZERO apneas/hypopneas, but my doctor successfully fought with the insurance to get me a month's trial with CPAP. It worked well, then later I had another test at an excellent sleep center, and it turned out I was having 26 events per hour, mostly hypopneas but plenty enough to qualify for CPAP.

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