Can anyone read oxymetry reports?

Hello,

Could someone please read my wife's oxymetry report? She snores heavily when in deep sleep and when she is on her back I occasionally hear her have apneas (from what I can tell about once a minute for sometimes up to 10 seconds or more). She doesn't believe me and is defiant but has agreed to let me use a recording oxymeter on her. She slept on her side all last night and I don't hear any apneas when she is on her side, only back. I will get her to sleep on her back tonight with the oxymeter on. This is her report for last night sleeping on her side, like I said(wrote) I didn't hear any apneas just loud snoring. Can anyone please read it? Is it fairly normal? Thanks in advance

PM and ask HoseCrusher who replied to your post before. See it here:


viewtopic/t75122/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=74 ... 55#p684855

I (just another poster) don't see any abnormality in the results except that the test time was too short)

The goal is to keep oxygen saturation above 90%. Your wife seems to do a pretty good job of doing that, but there is a dip now and then.

If you look at what was going on at around 6:15, 7:00, 7:40 and 8:50, it looks like some drops in saturation were accompanied by increases in pulse rate. This is something to avoid.

It is hard to simply look at one nights data and draw conclusions. If you talk her into wearing the oximeter over a few nights, or spot checking a few times during the month, patters should start to develop.

Keep in mind that I am not a cardiologist, so take my interpretation with a grain of salt.

Matty332 wrote:She snores heavily when in deep sleep and when she is on her back I occasionally hear her have apneas (from what I can tell about once a minute for sometimes up to 10 seconds or more).

Hi,

Anything below 92% is concerning, and anything below 88% should be treated medically. She averaged around 93%, which doesn't seem healthy for a 33 year old. You would expect to see that in the high 90s. She had 35 events in 3 hours, or an event about every 5 minutes. That is not good. Would she be receptive to trying a oximeter from a sleep doctor? That would record an entire night, and you could get a medical opinion on the data.

There is a school of thought that believes that any level of snoring is harmful. If you have kids, or are planning to have kids, and you don't want to end up being a single father, then she should get a more complete evaluation. In the event that this is not a real medical problem, then you will know for sure. But if it is a problem, getting an evaluation might save her life. If she doesn't want to save her own life, at least ask her to consider doing it for you or for your kids (either current or future kids). If she were to get pregnant, you wouldn't want an oxygen desaturation to end up harming the baby.

-john-