AHI

Please tell me about AHI. I stopped breathing about 80 times in a three hour period. How would that be classified? mild, moderate, severe?

That's at the upper end of moderate IIRC (moderate being 15-30 AHI), but the truth is the AHI means almost nothing in terms of how you feel. There's some correlation in men between the AHI and severity of symptoms (but it's not absolute), but no correlation whatsoever in women. (I don't have the study at hand, but it was in PubMed.)

What would be more useful would be to know, how long you stopped breathing at a time and how low you O2 went. A AHI of 5 per hour is considered medically normal, but if any of those cause O2 stats to go under 90, you need help. Not having enough O2, and having your sleep broken up by Apnea are the problem. the AHI score is just a way of keeping score. I would say 80 is moderate, I was 150. Now with treatment I am under AHI 0.8 on the avg for the last year, it works when done right. Take no prisoners. Jim