I have had several surgeries in the past few years - back, hip replacement, and rotator cuff repair. Each time my AHI numbers went up while I was taking narcotic pain killers and then went back down to normal (yearly average of 1.74) afterwards.
About 6 weeks ago I had a total knee replacement and was on more narcotics than I have ever had to use - oxycotin morning and night for ten days and oxycodone every 2 hours while awake for 3 weeks.
This time the AHI stayed low until I stopped taking the narcotics and was relying on Tylenol, then it ramped up to well over 5 for 3 weeks. Three days ago it started dropping back down and is at an average of about 3 right now.
I guess my theory about the effect of narcotics on my AHI was wrong. There seems to be more to it than that.
High AHI after surgery.
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ClayL
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Re: High AHI after surgery.
Narcotics stay in for your system for a long time and then your system has to go through a cold turkey withdrawal. Of course your AHI will be different.
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