My titration was done at an overnight sleep lab. The hyponeas were not differentiated ( 'central' vs 'obstructive' ) by the technician or physician, i am not sure if this is common practice. wouldn't a proper classification of central hypopneas lead automatically to another titration with an AVS? I...

I'm sure someone can correct me, but if you have Hypopneas you just have very shallow breathing... maybe partially obstructed. Centrals are when you are not obstructed, but your brain decides it doesn't feel like breathing, so to speak. I get more CA numbers than anything else. I have tried to use ...

What is their diagnosis and prescription? [/quote] The docs are holding back at the moment, there could be an neurological cause, but surgery may be explored as well. I am going to see a range of physicians in the upcoming weeks. As a bottom line, everyone is a little puzzled... Today I realized th...

My titration was done at an overnight sleep lab.
The hyponeas were not differentiated ( 'central' vs 'obstructive' ) by the technician or physician, i am not sure if this is common practice.

wouldn't a proper classification of central hypopneas lead automatically to another titration with an AVS?

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Well, it seems that I will not be able to become committed hosehead, after one of my worst nights in my live a week ago, my titration results are in. They are as followed: AHI: 19.8 HI: 18.9 (I believe those are central HI's) OSA. 1 (in total) CSA 1 in total (this one was incredible.... 77 sec long!...

Apnea index was surprisingly low with my latest test, and showed in REM sleep only (only one Rem cycle, 12 apneas were found there,mostly OSA). I have a much greater number of Hyponeas, but those are spread throughout all phases of sleep. Said that my AHI is very low, 8.2 to be precise, a far cry fo...

Had another take home sleep test. This one showed a proportional higher count of Hypopnea events per hour (18), 2.5 Central Apneas and 1.0 Obstructive. Having read that Hyponea's can be central or obstructive, may I assume that in my case they are likely central due to my higher central ratio within...

How accurate is the AHI count reading from the top face display of the device? My count is around 12 AHI (likely all centrals, seems very high) I have been on CPAP for 1 week, the machine was switched to the current model 4 days ago. The data of the prior machine was downloaded at the sleep center, ...

Arburtus, what do you mean by "they"? When you wrote: They only detected 36 Minutes ( ?!?) Theraphy time, the matter of fact is that I used the machine for about 4-5 hours) the cmh2o was 10. and system leaks are l/min 27.2 and AHI average over the last 7 days was 18.2! It's hard to understand it. In...

my pressure range is between 6-9, below 10 in the first 3 nights. I used the newest and greatest Remstar. Last night the gave me the previous model, since the can not let me use the newest as a loaner for too long. the pressure seemed much higher, even so it was set at the same strength. I did not c...

I am really impressed by the support of this message board!! Thank you very much for all your thoughts! I really had a difficult night. Even so I logged in so far my longest time with CPAP, I had also the most fragmented sleep so far. Generally I do not arouse and sleep 8 hours straight. Of course, ...

I was diagnosed with Sleep apnea using a Itamar Watch Pat that does not distinguish between central of OSA's. Apparently my CPAP's ( PR System One REMstar Auto CPAP Machine with A-Flex) data mentioned 4-7 central sleep apneas an hour. The OSA's were close to zero. This in turn made me concerned abou...

Kaiser Permanente, my provider is not very proactive in this regard, kind of a cooky cutter approach here. I had to be persistent. said that that, the do want to outfit me right away with CPAP. I'm a Kaiser patient, and Kaiser--in my region (Northern California) at least is VERY proactive in treati...

In a study published 2001 it was claimed that treatment with CPAP is not effective in patients with sleep apnea but no daytime sleepiness. Essentially none of the study participants experienced quality of live or/and cognitive improvements. Can you post a link to this study? here we are: http://www...

thank you for your answers ! it funny, I was outfitted with a CPAP today and wear it as I type. It seems I like to open my mouth to pronounce words while I type, the CPAP right away created this odd underpressure