thats great

Thanx Pugsy & Library Lady. That glossary will come in handy as I learn more about this condition

Questioningly (running out of Introductory Adverbs), what was your Epworth Sleepiness Scale prior to testing? I dont think it was anymore than 4. They gave me a bunch of papers to fill out with the epworth questions after the sleep study. I only answered two questions with slight fall asleep and mo...

Thankyou so much RobySue for your extensive reply. Very informative. Yes he was not very good at explaining at all (imo). I wasn't aware that everyone is told about their drivers license that gets diagnosed with this, so that makes me feel better. Perhaps he was rather stern from the beginning to ma...

Johnathansmith69 wrote:Last night was my first night using the CPAP and I got 6.5 hours sleep and my AHI is 3.6 is that good??

My machine says that I slept 6.7 hours, and AHI is 3.1

What is AHI?

thanx for your input Krelvin. Yes I feel that our degree of stress and activity, as well as pain greatly effects our ability to daytime sleep.

Sludge wrote:
We're talking about disturbing your brreathing just enough so they can score it a hypopnea or a RERA and now you're on CPAP with no driver's license.

I agree with you Sludge. I think codeine could alter the tests.

What I am trying to say is that your doc that you would not feel the desire to sleep during the day if you got sleep at night, is not completely true. If the issue is, he wants you to use the machine properly at night for a period of time, then see if you really still need to sleep during the day, ...

What you're calling migraines might actually be true migraines, but... if you wake up with them routinely, they are in fact a classic symptom of apnea, and should go away (at least the a.m. ones) once you get Cpap working properly... so should overnight bathroom breaks if they're a factor, and of c...

Unless they're deliberately lying... Certainly a possibility. apnea & Hypopnea index of 12.8 hours of sleep Rem & Supine AHI 16.1 & 18.1 73 Respiratory arousals with respiratory arousal index of 12 per hour of sleep Can you clarify exactly what this breakdown is (apneas. hypopneas and RERAs)? Also,...