Hypops only??????

caffeine please · Post by **caffeine please** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:31 am

Anyone out there with only hypopneas? My index is 16 so I qualified for a machine. I think having only hypops has lead for a long time to me having denial about needing the machine

RipVW · Post by **RipVW** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:06 pm

I've had a few nights here and there with hypops only, but those nights are exceptions to the norm for me.

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:22 pm

caffeine please wrote:Anyone out there with only hypopneas? My index is 16 so I qualified for a machine. I think having only hypops has lead for a long time to me having denial about needing the machine

If a person has enough events of any kind, if it lowers the blood oxygen, they need this therapy.

I'm not quite hypopneas ONLY......but on average, I probably only have about a half-dozen recorded apneas in any given month since starting therapy.....so, I'm probably pretty close. I also don't have very many hypopneas per night either......which tells me my therapy is working well.
In my case, I think some nasal surgery (turbinate and septum) would help a great deal, but I'm not so sure I want to go that route as I'm doing pretty well with "my little bed buddy".

In my sleep study, my AHI was about 46.

Den

talktobon · Post by **talktobon** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:52 pm

My sleep lab results showed 17 hypops per hour with no apneas, and my sleep doc made me get the machine. Since getting the machine, I run about 1 apnea/1 hypop per hour. Obviously I need to be on it.

caffeine please · Post by **caffeine please** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:37 am

Thank-you you guys. Your feedback helps. I don't know what I would do without this forum. No one can really know what someone else feels unless you have been there

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