Doctor will likely not diagnose me with OSA based on 1 study

Midnight Strangler wrote:Yours is an interesting case (Never what you want to hear.), and I hope you soon get relief.

awaiken wrote:sleeping on my back complicates is a culprit of my condition so i have to stay on my sid

Just curious about what condition that is?

Sleep Apnea

Thanks for the "heads up" by PM that your results were posted. Hopefully someone with more knowledge about study results than I would weigh in. I'm wondering what that absence of deep sleep means in relation to if events are usually worse in N3. If that is the case, your results may not be fully reflective of your condition, however I don't know if that's the case. Anybody out there know?

Do you own the equipment you just started using? Since you had a prior diagnosis of OSA just wondering if it's yours to keep and you can use it if you choose? Maybe your snoring is disturbing your sleep. You wouldn't be the first to use a cpap for snoring, although it probably wouldn't be covered by insurance. I have no knowledge about UARS, just have read that it disturbs sleep but isn't to the extent to be classified as sleep apnea. Worth asking the question. I have no idea if your results indicate that possibility or rule it out. Are you on any meds or supplements that are known to disrupt sleep?

I feel bad that I've stirred up more questions than I've answered. Wish there was something conclusive. Sometimes our night in the sleep lab doesn't represent how we sleep on other nights. Maybe that's the case. I wish you the best in finding answers. If it were me, I'd probably opt to use the previously prescribed CPAP diligently for a few weeks, monitor the data, see how I felt, then decide how to proceed. I wouldn't be comfortable with accepting that my OSA had reversed itself with no other mitigating factors, like maybe weight loss. Good luck.

awaiken wrote:

Midnight Strangler wrote:Yours is an interesting case (Never what you want to hear.), and I hope you soon get relief.

awaiken wrote:sleeping on my back complicates is a culprit of my condition so i have to stay on my sid

Just curious about what condition that is?

Sleep Apnea

If you are using CPAP, and the machine settings are titrated properly, you can sleep on your back and not have breathing events.

I sleep on my sides and my back, but my machine settings give me good therapy when sleeping on my back. As far as I know, sleep labs always titrate the machine settings for backsleeping. There was a guy here the other day who had a bad back and could only sleep on his sides. He was going to tell the lab about the problem, and they were going to titrate him for sidesleeping.

I should add if you are not using CPAP, sleeping on the sides may give you some relief as compared to the back. But it is rarely an effective treatment.