Central Apneas

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Sleep_Apnea_Sufferer
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Central Apneas

Post by Sleep_Apnea_Sufferer » Sun Aug 06, 2017 1:04 am

So I am looking at the machine today. Still trying to get used to the full face mask and finding that 'right pressure to fall asleep to and not wake up' but my machine as well as my sleep test was showing some central apneas.

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Re: Central Apneas

Post by ajack » Sun Aug 06, 2017 1:09 am

If your sleep test had CA, the odds are you are going to keep some. The cpap CA can be a mix of real and getting use to treatment ca. How many are you getting an hour?

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Re: Central Apneas

Post by Sleep_Apnea_Sufferer » Sun Aug 06, 2017 1:21 am

ajack wrote:If your sleep test had CA, the odds are you are going to keep some. The cpap CA can be a mix of real and getting use to treatment ca. How many are you getting an hour?

you can upload sleepyhead and post the link http://imgur.com/
Around 3 per hour according to the machine.

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Re: Central Apneas

Post by Pugsy » Sun Aug 06, 2017 1:25 am

Are you for sure asleep when you see the central flags?
Are you seeing any OA or hyponea flags around the same time?
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Re: Central Apneas

Post by ajack » Sun Aug 06, 2017 1:59 am

At this stage 3 an hour, if they are 10-20 seconds or so and not 2 minutes aren't an issue. You need an o2 reading to confirm of any are real. As pugsy is saying, there are a lot of reasons for flagged 'clear airway' CA events that aren't real central apnea.

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Re: Central Apneas

Post by CUatX » Sun Aug 06, 2017 8:57 am

Pugsy wrote:Are you for sure asleep when you see the central flags?
Are you seeing any OA or hyponea flags around the same time?
This.

You may be like me and getting a lot of SWJ (sleep/wake/junk) clusters as you're drifting off to sleep.
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