Can I get some help understanding my sleep study report?

[soundersfootballclub]

My formal appointment with my sleep doc is a few weeks away. They gave me my report to look at this morning. Obviously it creates many questions for me now. If some of you can help me understand this a bit it would really be helpful. I understand that I have 18 interruptions an hour which puts me in the moderate OSA camp. But all the other mumbo jumbo is just that! Thanks in advance. I uploaded a copy here:

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[robysue]

I have to bike home now so I don't want to take the time to look at your particular report. But I have recently posted an essay, Understanding the data in your sleep test report to my blog. If you read it, many of your questions might be cleared up.

And if after reading my essay, you have more questions or things that need to be clarified, post them and somebody will answer them.

RobySue

[robysue]

And the short version of the most significant thing in your report:

They were only able to titrate you at 6 and 7cm and neither pressure was therapeutic. In other words, they ran out of time to properly titrate you since you had a split study.

So they are recommending a several week trial of APAP to determine what your pressure should be set at.

[soundersfootballclub]

I have to bike home now so I don't want to take the time to look at your particular report. But I have recently posted an essay, Understanding the data in your sleep test report to my blog. If you read it, many of your questions might be cleared up.

And if after reading my essay, you have more questions or things that need to be clarified, post them and somebody will answer them.

RobySue

Ooooh your blog is great robysue!. Thanks! In fact you are generating a list of questions to ask my doctor when we have a followup!!! Cheers.

[Slartybartfast]

Hmmm . . . "No effective pressure was found." And in the next breath they say they're going to put you on APAP anyway and see what happens.
I concur. It appears they didn't complete the study, for whatever reason. 0, 5 and 7 cm? 7cm is just enough to keep me from passing out from hypoxia, if the claustrophobia doesn't get me first.

Go Mariners!

[soundersfootballclub]

Hmmm . . . "No effective pressure was found." And in the next breath they say they're going to put you on APAP anyway and see what happens.
I concur. It appears they didn't complete the study, for whatever reason. 0, 5 and 7 cm? 7cm is just enough to keep me from passing out from hypoxia, if the claustrophobia doesn't get me first.

Go Mariners!

I'm with you, that is about the Mariners! Time for an 18 game winning streak about now . I'm happy they aren't making me go through the torture and expense to do another test. Everyone says CPAP is the "gold standard" so let's get this over with already and put me on the damn machine. I said that from the beginning and wasted money on sleep test and 3 weeks to get to this point. I am going to assume the APAP will find my needed pressure. I wonder if that dang CPAP was even working properly since it didn't feel like much air was coming out of that thing during the test. When I was trying on masks today I REALLY felt pressure especially when I exhaled. That will take some getting used to. So happy I spent $1 grand on that test and now I'm wondering if the machine or the tech watching over me were up to snuff!

[JohnBFisher]

... I have recently posted an essay, Understanding the data in your sleep test report to my blog. ...

RobySue, as always an excellent set of suggestions and data in your blog. Have you considered adding that data to the CPAPtalk.com Wiki? It would be a good addition to the library.

[robysue]

... I have recently posted an essay, Understanding the data in your sleep test report to my blog. ...

RobySue, as always an excellent set of suggestions and data in your blog. Have you considered adding that data to the CPAPtalk.com Wiki? It would be a good addition to the library.

I've considered it. But the guidelines on writing style is a bit too neutral for me to easily do. Someday I want to take both this essay and the one on insomnia and tweak them to fit the Wiki's style suggestions. But it will have to wait for now.