Wake up gasping while using CPAP

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Nocibur
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Re: Wake up gasping while using CPAP

Post by Nocibur » Tue Nov 18, 2025 2:19 pm

So to sum up, would be helpful to review sleep studies. If you total up all the "RERAs" (I concede there are some) the RDI might be a minuscule (i.e., "normal") number.

But if Sleep Efficiency turns out to be something awful, perhaps with an explainable cause, she may get a better bang for the buck looking at that instead of DWing.

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Re: Wake up gasping while using CPAP

Post by dooodlebugg83 » Tue Nov 18, 2025 2:38 pm

Thanks. I got a referral to a real sleep doctor, and hopefully they can schedule me in before too long. They might schedule another sleep test to get better data possibly? I'll see what they say.

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Re: Wake up gasping while using CPAP

Post by ozij » Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:23 pm

Nocibur wrote:
Tue Nov 18, 2025 2:11 pm
To me, this looks like poor sleep at its worst (or best, depending on how you look at it).

In a close-up of an area, there do appear to be some RERA here, and the snoring flags are correct in drawing attention to it:


so while OP denies snoring, might not be enough to rattle the pictures off the wall, but it's enough to create an issue.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, Nocibur
dooodlebugg83 wrote:
Tue Nov 18, 2025 2:38 pm
Thanks. I got a referral to a real sleep doctor, and hopefully they can schedule me in before too long. They might schedule another sleep test to get better data possibly? I'll see what they say.
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