Deep Breath Prior to Central Apnea

[sanger]

I've noticed in my flow rates a pattern that I'm seeing over and over again. I'll be breathing normally then suddenly I'll have a deep inhalation, deep exhalation then one normal breath then a central apnea. Curious is anyone has any understanding of what's going on here Just curious.

[LSAT]

What about all the CAs when you were breathing normally? CAs just happen....it's just 10+ seconds with no breath taken. Often if you take a beep breath and let it out slowly, a CA develops because there was 10+ seconds with no breath taken.

[jim22]

I haven't noticed the one normal breath after the deep one, but I almost always see a deep breath before a 15 sec or so "CA". I've been wondering the same thing. I also wonder what this does to O2 saturation.
Jim

[WildMtnHoney]

I do it, too, and it was suggested it could be an arousal. I think that makes a lot of sense, because the ones I see that look that like (big breath, then CA) happen either early in the night, or later, towards morning, whereas the ones I think are "true" CAs (for me), happen during early hours of morning (4am-ish) where I am guessing I'm in REM, and they have more a periodic-type breathing pattern to them (which I keep freaking out is CSR, but is never flagged as that, so I'm trying to chill out!).

[WildMtnHoney]

Just because I like to share!

A big breath CA:


A run of CAs around 5is this morning:

[archangle]

The 5 AM crowd look "real," but there aren't that many, they aren't that long, and you don't have that many during a night. They don't have the classical PB/CSR shape.

To me, they look like something "real," but not necessarily something to panic over.

The deep breath/CA things are even less worrisome to me.

How are you feeling?