I found my sleep lab results!!!

cheesy_rice · Post by **cheesy_rice** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:31 pm

When I first joined a few months ago I posted my first night of Encore Pro data. After evaluating the numbers someone asked me (jokingly, perhaps) why I was even on CPAP. I did not have my sleep lab results handy at the time but have now managed to dig them out of my horribly organized filing cabinet.

I want to share the results with y’all and see how my results compare with others. I’m not sure what all to mention so forgive me if I lay out a bunch of useless data.

“5 hours 48 minutes of sleep recorded. Prior to the application of CPAP no REM sleep was recorded.
Sleep latency was 7 minutes. Staged REM latency was prolonged at 194 minutes. Sleep was initially highly fragmented with large numbers of mostly respiratory microarousals.

Snoring was noted, graded by the technician as loud in intensity. Frequent respiratory events were seen. The apnea plus hypnoapnea index was 78 per hour. Repetitve hemoglobin desaturation occurred with the lowest value seen being about 83%.

CPAP was then applied and titrated. At 10cm water positive pressure, 1 hour 24 minutes of sleep were recorded. The apnea plus hynoapnea index at this setting was 1 per hour. This included a very long stage of REM rebound.”

cheesy_rice · Post by **cheesy_rice** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:02 am

Does anyone know if these numbers are about average?

Snoredog · Post by **Snoredog** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:15 am

cheesy_rice wrote:Does anyone know if these numbers are about average?

Well, you are missing a lot of data, doesn't mean a whole lot until you put it all in perspective.

An AHI over >30 is considered SEVERE OSA. you are double that at 78. If you take those 78 events per hour and IF you sleep for 7 hours that is (taking off my socks) 7 x 78 or 546 times per night you were aroused and it wasn't the good kind. Next, show up at a ER with chest pains and an oxygen level drop of about 3% they may put you on supplemental oxygen. If your awake oxygen level is 95% and it drops to 89% it becomes medically significant, you went to 83%.

Then the rest of that stuff says how well you slept (quality of sleep or sleep architecture) . We all can sleep 7hours, some can wake up feeling like a million bucks, others like poo poo. Yours is poo poo. It means you were woken up a whole bunch during the night even though you thought you were asleep. Put up your Stage1 to 4 and REM data, it will show you how bad that poo poo was.

cheesy_rice · Post by **cheesy_rice** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:56 am

Snoredog wrote:Put up your Stage1 to 4 and REM data, it will show you how bad that poo poo was.

they didn't give me that info.