Started CPAP - now I am more tired...

glyphix wrote:Don't hate me I am NOT giving up on CPAP... but by early last evening I was all tired and fatigued again, nearly falling asleep trying to read something... While I excersied I yawned like 15 times, when I normally never yawned before CPAP.

I decided I needed a few days without CPAP, so I could see what my baseline is again. (WRT tiredness/fatigue)... I want to make sure that It's not all in my head and that without the CPAP I really don't have the fatigue symptoms. In the meantime I am still monitoring my o2 sat all night with oximeter. Then I will go back to CPAP and work on finding settings that make things better instead of worse. (Maybe I'm one of those who needs constant pressure, but needed it higher, etc). But I felt I was getting lost and needed to get my pre-CPAP bearings again to know what i should feel like at minimum. And so I can start keeping a better log of how I feel to go along with my daily readings for me (and my doc at the end of the month) to look at.

I tried importing my oximetry data into sleepy head... I see it warns IF you are syncing with CPAP to import that first... I have no CPAP data so I went ahead and just set the start date/time since my device does not keep that info... but then no data shows in sleepy head... I was expecting atleast the o2 and pulse rows... Will sleepy head just not show anything unless there is CPAP data? Does anyone know?
EDIT: I figured it out... normally when I import oximetry data and associate with CPAP I select the previous day even though the start time is really 1am or so. When importing ox data without CPAP I needed to select the REAL day that it was 1am for, not the previous day

Wulfman... wrote:

glyphix wrote:I am curious if people think this is a valid o2 drop or not... there is clearly a few second gap in readings just before the first drop... which often results I know in my o2 sensor reading lower o2 than real for 15 seconds... but it does read lower o2 for a full minute... then there is another 30-45 second event.... neither of these times is it accompanied by a serious increase pulse...

This is my only "o2" event of the night. Apart from a 15 second one following a 30 second gap in readings that I am already sure is just a glitch.

I don't know, but it was only for a very brief period......and not "seriously" low.


Den

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glyphix wrote:

Wulfman... wrote:

glyphix wrote:I am curious if people think this is a valid o2 drop or not... there is clearly a few second gap in readings just before the first drop... which often results I know in my o2 sensor reading lower o2 than real for 15 seconds... but it does read lower o2 for a full minute... then there is another 30-45 second event.... neither of these times is it accompanied by a serious increase pulse...

This is my only "o2" event of the night. Apart from a 15 second one following a 30 second gap in readings that I am already sure is just a glitch.

I don't know, but it was only for a very brief period......and not "seriously" low.


Den

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Thanks! What would you consider "seriously low" and how long is "long"? Just trying to get an idea of what "bad" would look like in terms of o2 sats so I have some bar to measure against.

Wulfman... wrote:

glyphix wrote:

Wulfman... wrote:

glyphix wrote:I am curious if people think this is a valid o2 drop or not... there is clearly a few second gap in readings just before the first drop... which often results I know in my o2 sensor reading lower o2 than real for 15 seconds... but it does read lower o2 for a full minute... then there is another 30-45 second event.... neither of these times is it accompanied by a serious increase pulse...

This is my only "o2" event of the night. Apart from a 15 second one following a 30 second gap in readings that I am already sure is just a glitch.

I don't know, but it was only for a very brief period......and not "seriously" low.


Den

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Thanks! What would you consider "seriously low" and how long is "long"? Just trying to get an idea of what "bad" would look like in terms of o2 sats so I have some bar to measure against.

Well, they say the threshold for "low" is about 89 - 88. They don't like our numbers to fall below that. You were only a point or so below that and only for a brief period. It could have been the probe got a little loose or something.
And, it's not like you dropped into the 70's or below.......which is where some of my desats were when I had my sleep study.


Den

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glyphix wrote:ok - wow - thanks! that puts it in perspective for sure! Do you happen to know how long you stayed in the 70's? And/or below 88 or so in your sleep studies?