Help Interpreting Sleepyhead & Sleepy Study Data

emmagoldman44 · Post by **emmagoldman44** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 5:08 pm

Pugsy wrote:....
I don't know if my ideas for a suggestion will help but they won't hurt you like the settings with such a high PS could maybe be doing a bit of hurting. I am pretty sure that the centrals/CAs you were seeing was from the PS being so high.
That much PS makes us sort of hyperventilate and we blow off carbon dioxide too soon and too much...so the carbon dioxide levels never get up to where they need to be to signal to the brain that it needs to breath...so the brain doesn't tell the body to breathe.
People often think it is lack of oxygen that is the trigger but it's really the level of carbon dioxide in the blood stream that the brain monitors and when it gets too high the brain sends the signals to breathe.

Damn, Pugsy - How did you get to be so smart and awesome at the same time? That is some advanced respiratory biochemistry up there and were you formerly a CPAP RT or you are all self-educated or what? You are a great resource on this board and I thank you very much for being here

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 5:42 pm

emmagoldman44 wrote: Damn, Pugsy - How did you get to be so smart and awesome at the same time? That is some advanced respiratory biochemistry up there and were you formerly a CPAP RT or you are all self-educated or what? You are a great resource on this board and I thank you very much for being here

Aw shucks. Thank you for the kind words. Most of it is common sense and logic with tad bit of magic thrown in.
I do have a medical background though and that gives me a good basis for the common sense and logic and magic.

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:37 pm

emmagoldman44 wrote:Damn, Pugsy -... were you formerly a CPAP RT

don't you DARE insult Pugsy like that!!!! you take that back!

modernsportscar · Post by **modernsportscar** » Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:52 pm

Hello again.

Still struggling with this, though haven't been sleeping with machine. I'm thinking of starting again, but my question is, how many nights would it take for me to know whether or not it was a UARS issue and solvable with breathing therapy/BiPAP? I'm trying to know ahead of time how many nights I should sleep with the machine before I can safely determine--as far as I can tell via this method, anyway--when I should give up on the idea of UARS and sell my sleep machine. (I am many thousands of dollars out of pocket, so if I could get even a small fraction of that back, it'd be great, but I don't want to give up on it too early.

Thanks in advance for any info/WAGs.

modernsportscar · Post by **modernsportscar** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:37 pm

Update: Have started sleeping again with machine in straight CPAP mode. Haven’t slept more than a couple of hours with it yet because of air bubbles creeping up my throat and waking me up. Have been off SSRIs for several months.

Any suggestions on air bubble problem?

modernsportscar · Post by **modernsportscar** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:28 pm

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0ybjd6k ... 5sZ8cFE_4Q

I found an old video of my 'click snoring.' Does this 'sound like' UARS?

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