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by pianoman37
Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:14 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: What are your thoughts on my charts?
Replies: 5
Views: 994

Re: What are your thoughts on my charts?

I have been checked for Pheochromocytoma months ago by a primary care doctor via blood work. I've also had a full abdominal MRI where they looked at the adrenal glands where pheos typically grow, along with every other organ that they could see in the abdomen. In 2018, I had a brain scan MRI with co...
by pianoman37
Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:05 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: What are your thoughts on my charts?
Replies: 5
Views: 994

What are your thoughts on my charts?

I'm attaching a couple of screenshots of OSCAR data from June 6 and June 10 to show the differences in what I'm dealing with. I had to do regular screenshot grabs because the F12 button in the program is capturing just a blank image. One day seems fine and the next I'm ripping my mask off after an h...
by pianoman37
Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:51 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Is there any correlation between CSA/OSA/UARS and feelings of throat tightness?
Replies: 2
Views: 566

Re: Is there any correlation between CSA/OSA/UARS and feelings of throat tightness?

Well, the sleep tech in the most recent in-lab titration study told me that the CPAP "wasn't working" when she tried it and I responded when she switched to BiPap remotely. I have an Air Sense 10 Autoset and user OSCAR to look at my results. I use the P10 nasal pillow mask. Then my experience with C...
by pianoman37
Wed Jun 10, 2020 8:47 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Is there any correlation between CSA/OSA/UARS and feelings of throat tightness?
Replies: 2
Views: 566

Is there any correlation between CSA/OSA/UARS and feelings of throat tightness?

I've seen a lot of users on various forums talk about throat tightness during the day. Mine stays all day, but only on certain days and seems to go away when I use CPAP and get enough sleep. It is right in the area where you would check your pulse on your check, on both sides. Just a symptom of low ...
by pianoman37
Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:11 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long
Replies: 17
Views: 18896

Re: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long

Got put on a 30-day cellular heart monitor today for me to choose the symptoms I'm having when I feel odd and feel like my heart is beating weird. Still waiting on thyroid. I think my dizziness may be from the poor sleep/lack of sleep.
by pianoman37
Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:07 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long
Replies: 17
Views: 18896

Re: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long

In your previous post you said your brain wakes up before your body. Now you're saying it's otherwise, so... Okay, it looks like there are a lot of complications outside of sleep apnea with what your talking about. We could name zebras, but really that's something you need to do with a doctor, or b...
by pianoman37
Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:28 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long
Replies: 17
Views: 18896

Re: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long

What you describe in your second paragraph sounds totally like sleep paralysis. This happens to me all the time. I cannot speak to many of the other symptoms, but this one sounds very familiar. Good luck on your next polysomnography. I hope you don't need cpap. If you do, well, you've got company h...
by pianoman37
Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:00 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long
Replies: 17
Views: 18896

Re: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long

Has your Doctor ruled out diabetes? Primary care doctor looked at previous blood tests. Thyroid doctor (they're also a Diabetes and Endocrine clinic specifically) looked at my most recent blood work that my GI doctor requested a couple of weeks. All bad cholesterol is high, good cholesterol is low ...
by pianoman37
Sat Apr 25, 2020 9:00 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long
Replies: 17
Views: 18896

Re: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long

Right now I'm suspecting thyroid to be the cause of my sleep issues unless they prove it otherwise with the blood work. Stuff like my hands/feet turning white/cold, the nausea, dizziness, heartbeat, etc. Primary care doctors have tested my blood dozens of times over the years, but I've never been to...
by pianoman37
Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:43 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long
Replies: 17
Views: 18896

Re: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long

I was using Air Sense 10 Autoset For Her (because it had the extra lighter algorithm that I wanted to try, which didn't help). My new ENT doc/Sleep doc (double certified) said I don't fit the bill for UARS. He thinks their scoring method was messed up at the other lab and they did indeed botch a lot...
by pianoman37
Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:18 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long
Replies: 17
Views: 18896

Re: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long

I'm awaiting another home sleep study. New sleep doc (old sleep doc wouldn't even give the CPAP at all and the CPAP came generically from my ENT doc who was trying to help) looked over both sleep studies and doesn't think I need the CPAP. That sleep study will probably be scheduled on Monday for may...
by pianoman37
Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:06 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long
Replies: 17
Views: 18896

Waking up exactly 30-35 minutes all night long

I've been exhausted since my teenage years. Been to lots of primary care doctors and had all kinds of blood work over the years. Nothing was found. Then I got to figuring out that it may be my sleep. 2018 a sleep study showed a 4.7 AHI and 18 RDI. Had deviated septum and turbinate reduction surgery....
by pianoman37
Sat Apr 11, 2020 3:30 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Sleep doctor or GP/Specialist doctor for these issues?
Replies: 6
Views: 1392

Re: Sleep doctor or GP/Specialist doctor for these issues?

YES - it means you're very low on 02 - stop exercising for now, at least til you see the sleep doc. PS - UARS can be treated with cpap... depends - so ask the doc when you see them. PPS - multivits are a waste of money (huge research done couple of yrs ago), learn how to eat properly instead. Well,...
by pianoman37
Sat Apr 11, 2020 1:23 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Sleep doctor or GP/Specialist doctor for these issues?
Replies: 6
Views: 1392

Sleep doctor or GP/Specialist doctor for these issues?

I have SO much going on and need some advice. 37 year old healthy and fairly fit, muscular male. 5'8 and 150 pounds. I've been "tired" for a lot of my life and couldn't focus that well. School was a big struggle and so is driving to this day. Not mentally alert enough. March 2018 sleep study showed ...
by pianoman37
Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:58 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: I'm waking up every 30-35 minutes all night
Replies: 5
Views: 2650

I'm waking up every 30-35 minutes all night

I can't tell why. I have an extra home security camera with night vision trained on my bed and hooked to the security DVR. I mean spot-on all throughout the night, typically averaging about 33 to 35 minutes apart, I wake up to turn over and go back to sleep. 2018 in-lab study showed 4.7 AHI and 18 R...