Posted by dirtywater on February 24, 2009 at 12:15:16:

In Reply to: Re: POLL: Was MMA worth it or not posted by bredren on February 22, 2009 at 13:42:04:

I started seeing a sleep doc who is a neurologist instead of a pulmonologist :-) The difference is that the new doctor, besides having the perspective of a neurologist (and a very good one at that), does not use the standard American Academy of Sleep Medicine criteria for "scoring" a sleep study. He thinks the criteria is outdated and that in many patients there is a complex interplay between physical aspects and neurological aspects of apnea. This is known, not surprisingly, as "complex sleep apnea." So he uses a modified scoring method which I don't recall the details of, but I think basically the modified method allows more events to be classified as "central" or "central-related" apneas.

I can't mention his name here, but the following article discusses complex sleep apnea and credits my doctor in several prominent places:

http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/issues/articles/2008-04_02.asp

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