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Mikesus · Post by **Mikesus** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:27 pm

I laid down for a nap and hosed up but I didn't really sleep, so I was curious what the Encore software would show. Interestingly enough the pressure rose to 9, and recorded a number of hypo's and apnea's. This leads me to my next question... Is it possible that we could be experiencing Apnea events while not sleeping?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:38 pm

What's a hypo?

Mikesus · Post by **Mikesus** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:42 pm

Anonymous wrote:What's a hypo?

hypopnea - a flow reduction of between 50% and 25%

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:46 pm

So, just so I understand....an apnea is when you stop breathing and a hypo is where your breathing becomes very shallow? There is software which records this while you are using the CPAP?

About your question, were you moving around at all while you were trying to sleep? I'm just wondering...if you laid down to take a nap and went to the trouble of hooking yourself up, you must have intended to sleep and perhaps been trying to sleep. If you were moving around trying to get comfortable, would that explain what you saw?

I'm new here and do not have a machine yet...I'm still in the suffering stage.

Barbara

guest - unclebob · Post by **guest - unclebob** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:44 pm

What's a hypo?

It's a spelling error of an indication of a spelling error. Otherwise, it's a large horned animal in Africa that will take your breath away for the spelling impaired!!!

unclebob

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:08 pm

Yes it is possible to experience airway bloackages while you lay awake. Sit upright in a chair and compare your data.

Mikesus · Post by **Mikesus** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:01 pm

Anonymous wrote:Yes it is possible to experience airway bloackages while you lay awake. Sit upright in a chair and compare your data.

Good idea!! Will have to do that...

Dave Hargett · Post by **Dave Hargett** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:58 pm

Mikesus wrote:I laid down for a nap and hosed up but I didn't really sleep, so I was curious what the Encore software would show. Interestingly enough the pressure rose to 9, and recorded a number of hypo's and apnea's. This leads me to my next question... Is it possible that we could be experiencing Apnea events while not sleeping?

Didn't really sleep, huh? Maybe you were actually in light stage 1 or 2 sleep but didn't realize it. I know I was wide awake during the Super Bowl, too, but somehow I never saw the New England field goal. I guess I nodded off without realizing it.

There are folks who complain that they NEVER sleep at all during the night. Put them in the sleep lab and some of them are asleep in minutes and their brain waves show they are sleeping all night long. For them, they somehow misinterpret their sleep and perceive that they have insomnia all night long.

I suspect you did fall asleep for a few minutes somewhere along the way, even if you think you didn't.

Dave

Sleeping With The Enemy · Post by **Sleeping With The Enemy** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:06 pm

This may sound weird but I have actually heard myself snore while relaxed at night watching TV, maybe just one snore, but no doubt a snore.

And I'm not obese or anything...

Sleeping With The Enemy · Post by **Sleeping With The Enemy** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:15 pm

This may sound weird but I have actually heard myself snore while relaxed at night watching TV, maybe just one snore, but no doubt a snore.

And I'm not obese or anything...

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:31 pm

A micro sleep here, a faint snore there... a glimpse of deja vu... It's what makes us apnea folks who we are!

Effective sleep therapy is what makes us who we can be---or at least brings us that much closer!

Liam1965 · Post by **Liam1965** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:41 pm

Dave Hargett wrote:There are folks who complain that they NEVER sleep at all during the night. Put them in the sleep lab and some of them are asleep in minutes and their brain waves show they are sleeping all night long. For them, they somehow misinterpret their sleep and perceive that they have insomnia all night long.

I've heard this, and I think it's a difference in the definition of "sleep". I call that "dozing". Sure, I may not see every tick of the clock, but if I can remember looking at the clock at 10 or 20 minute intervals all night, then I didn't *SLEEP* by my definition. I may have entered phase 1 sleep repeatedly all night, but I certainly never got much deeper than that, nor did I get much (if any) restful REM sleep.

To me, calling that "sleeping" is like saying that for the half second I'm in the air from when I jump off the roof until I crash into the ground, I'm "flying".

Air Liam, Fly Me.

Dave Hargett · Post by **Dave Hargett** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:10 pm

Call it dozing if you like, but it registers as sleep and you can have apneas and hypopneas.

As we age, stage 3 and 4 sleep often disappears in total. There are people who get little or no slow wave sleep at all and spent the majority of their night in stage 1 and 2 sleep, with a little REM thrown in. They seem to get along without some of the problems us apneics have, so somehow it is relatively restful sleep for them.

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