LINKS to UARS - Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome

[rested gal]

Links to UARS:

http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/dis ... /sleep.htm

http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/full/115/4/1127

http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/conte ... 161/5/1412

http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/conte ... 161/5/1413

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sleepydave (RPSGT manager of an accredited sleep lab) wrote an interesting post about UARS:

New Here/Need help with Sleep Study Results

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sleepydave
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What's UARS?

Hi Arline!
UARS is the acronym for Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome. It is characterized by respiratory events that are not severe enough to be classified as apneas or hypopneas still cause arousals. These respiratory events can be snores or minor narrowing of the airway, but the increased negative intrathoracic pressure trying to draw air through the restricted airway, as well as the arousals, can cause the same havoc as plain old OSA.
Here's an interesting blurb that should perk your ears up:

UARS

So it's still nothing to sneeze at.
Sure, continue to gather more info, including maybe seeing an ENT. Also keep in mind that surgery of the upper airway can have some significant associated hazards, so don't make that decision lightly.
See what the CPAP results bring, then maybe go from there.

sleepydave

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(Click the red word "UARS" in sleepydave's comments to go to the ncbi.nlm.nih.gov link.)

Interesting UARS links were posted by SleepyJ in a topic at this clickable link:
Sleep Studies Forum, apneasupport.org, August 2006.

[sleepyred]

Thanks Laura for these wonderful sites.

I have UARS and because of a great sleep doc who was "thinking out of the box" I am now sleeping very well and on cpap therapy.

I do not have a copy of my sleep study results, but he said I was having "several" micro-arousals in my breathing during my sleep. He sent me home with a cpap from his office for 5 nights to record my breathing on a cpap at NO CHARGE! Before then, I would wake up feeling like I could not swallow or that I was choking. My insurance company would not agree to further studies. He wrote them a wonderful letter stating that the cpap trial worked so well, that after an appeal - they covered a cpap. I have not had an episode like that since my cpap!

Thanks again!
Sleepyred