Please help
Re: Please help
Sometimes the scar tissue that forms after UPPP will sometimes make the airway even worse. I have seen patients go up on pressure 5-6 cmH20 after surgery. Like Pugsy mentioned, the Sleep Onset Central Apneas are your body getting it's Pco2 and PO2 correctly aligned as your body's metabolism is correcting for sleep. Pugsy provided a lot of good information. If you remove the CA's from the beginning and the ones that are most likely following arousals, you're only having a few scattered OH's throughout the study.
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Coloradokid
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Re: Please help
Hi,
No. I haven't changed my sleeping position. I sleep at an incline, and I think that I follow proper sleep hygiene. I exercise. No caffeine after lunch, etc. But I'm still waking up a lot. Sometimes I know for a fact that I wake up more times per night than the machine indicates (is that possible?). The thing is, I don't have too many problems with daytime sleepiness. My main problem is the impaired cognitive function. I feel really "cloudy" and have trouble reading things as simple as a dinner menu, on the days where I've had a rough night's sleep. Here is some recent data. Is there anything else you can think of changing? Would I benefit from a machine designed to treat central apneas (asv?)? Thank you for the advice you have already given (and thanks in advance for any further thoughts).
Edit: This is the night before last. I know it's not showing all of my arousals because that was one of the worst nights I've had in a very long time. I actually remember being awake every 15 to 20 minutes, throughout the entire night.
No. I haven't changed my sleeping position. I sleep at an incline, and I think that I follow proper sleep hygiene. I exercise. No caffeine after lunch, etc. But I'm still waking up a lot. Sometimes I know for a fact that I wake up more times per night than the machine indicates (is that possible?). The thing is, I don't have too many problems with daytime sleepiness. My main problem is the impaired cognitive function. I feel really "cloudy" and have trouble reading things as simple as a dinner menu, on the days where I've had a rough night's sleep. Here is some recent data. Is there anything else you can think of changing? Would I benefit from a machine designed to treat central apneas (asv?)? Thank you for the advice you have already given (and thanks in advance for any further thoughts).
Edit: This is the night before last. I know it's not showing all of my arousals because that was one of the worst nights I've had in a very long time. I actually remember being awake every 15 to 20 minutes, throughout the entire night.