"I'm Sorry, Auto"

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:57 am

"snore indes" ???

Teach ME not to use spell check....

Try substituting indexes or indices for the previous typo.

Den

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:56 am

Den,

As long as I know it's okay to snore on xpap, OKAY!!!

Thanks .

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:07 pm

Trust me, Lori......IT IS!

You can rattle your walls all you want.....and it won't bother me a bit!

Den

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:13 pm

You can rattle your walls all you want.....and it won't bother me a bit!

LOL...my husband thanks you.

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:21 am

They're usually 10X (or much more) that amount, and my AHI is usually lower when the SI is higher, too. (and I have no idea why)

I would suggest a snore can be described as an obstruction that doesn't mature into a hypopnea or an apnea. So it makes sense for some avoided apnea and hypops to be noted a snores. Your airway collapses enought for the snore noies, but no enough to really obstruct your breathing.

O.

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:35 am

So, Ozij, that must mean, since my snore index was at an all time high this morning of 8.0, that the auto is doing its job. No? My AHI's are so low and my snores are high. It makes a lot of sense when you put it that way.

Is the auto more sensitive, in that setting, to things such as snores? The reason I ask is, when I'm on straight cpap at my titrated pressure, I have zero snores. But maybe the cpap mode doesn't pick up on those. If that's the case, "I REALLY am sorry, Auto!!!!" I should be ashamed of myself for doubting it before .

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:56 am

Lori,

You couldn't rattle a piece of paper with a snore index of 8.0....let alone any walls....

Here are some links that I found on a search on "snoring". (there are MANY)

http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/snoring/snoring.cfm

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/snoring.html

http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?ob ... dsection=2

http://www.medindia.net/patients/Patien ... noring.asp

I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to how it relates to apneas and hypopneas from ozij's post.

Have a good one.

Den

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:03 am

You couldn't rattle a piece of paper with a snore index of 8.0....let alone any walls....

So, Den, ya think???

I looked at a couple of the articles and they are saying it's bad to snore, especially when it links snoring to apnea. Maybe I'm reading them wrong? I am not going to worry about it, though, as I have been averaging two to three episodes per night of either apnea or hypops. I can't get much better than that. And according to one article, 7 or more per hour per night is considered having apnea. So while hooked to the machine, I, for all intents and purposes, don't have "classic" apnea.

So I guess, snore away??? Thanks for the links, Den.

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:34 am

Lori,

I'm quite sure.....

The way I read the articles, snoring and OSA share common causes in that they occur from either a constriction of the throat and/or softening of the muscles in that area. There can be snoring which just "makes noise" (enongated uvula) or the kind that is more closely associated with apnea in which the airway actually closes off for a period of time. My wife snores (usually softly), but doesn't have OSA (that I can tell....and have tried to observe, now that I know what this is all about). And, my snoring seems to have no direct connection with the amount of apneas or hypopneas I have (or don't have). Plus, my snore index is considerably lower than when I started on this "journey".

Snore away, girl!

Den

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:20 pm

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Snore away, girl!

Den,

It's either that or back to straight 10 CPAP...I think I'll snore away.