Hyponeas (sleep study) ?

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Have you ever tried not sleeping on your back - and using something (e.g. stuffed pack in back, or foam wedge) to keep you from flipping in your sleep? I can almost guarantee your hypops would go way down. While they're not AS serious as apneas, they still count and can certainly affect sleep quality among other things.

AHI

Apnea
Hyponea
Index

There's a reason that hyponeas are measured and counted when evaluating a person for potential sleep apnea diagnosis.
They aren't to be pooh poohed off. They aren't just "shallow breathing" either.
The air flow is reduced because some level of obstruction is happening and people CAN'T move the air they need to.
Shallow breathing is just taking shallow breaths because that's how they breathe. Big difference between can't move the air and not really wanting to move the air.

So your number of hyponeas earned you the diagnosis. They are important. They can cause desats and sleep disruptions and all the other symptoms that we associate with OSA.

I assume there was some reason you elected to have the sleep study....some unwanted not very nice symptoms????
So yes...your number of hyponeas are something to worry about.

Besides think of this..
Hyponeas are a reduction in air flow of 40 to 79 %
Obstructive apneas are a reduction in air flow from 80 to 100%
If you have a reduction in air flow of say 75 %....so you really expect it to be dramatically less stress on your body than an OA of 81% flow reduction? It's a label...that's all.
What we don't/can't see when we see the number of hyponeas is the degree of that air flow reduction.
It's enough to cause a respiratory disturbance flagging...so it's messing with your sleep.

What caused you to get the sleep study in the first place?

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:18 pm

What caused you to get the sleep study in the first place?

Constant fatigue and always being tired. I wake up in the morning and sometimes go right back to bed for another 3-6 hours.

If hypopneas are in the mix every day, expect then to become full blown obstructives
at some point--like when you have a cold, or an allergy; or gain weight, or are really tired.
They are just kids that can grow up fast.