Assimilate wrote:what i am really worried about is the central apneas i get when i use cpap.
That mere handful of centrals that popped up when you were getting a very short titration time with cpap in the sleep lab are not significant compared to the
over one hundred obstructive apneas you were having without CPAP.
The centrals you had during the titration could have been temporary ones that were going to subside anyway as your body got used to the pressure.
Since you can't go for another study, I'd just assume the centrals during titration were temporary ones that were going to disappear when you got used to the pressure. I wouldn't start worrying about the possibility of Complex Sleep Disordered Breathing (cpap
causing centrals) because, frankly, there's no way you can find that out without another sleep study titration at a lab that understands CSDB.
CPAP got rid of the BIG problem -- obstructive apneas -- so I'd not worry about the few centrals that happened. They may or may not be happening to you now. You're treating the major problem you had. That's what matters because you can't look into it further at this time.
