How low dId you go?

Julie wrote:What is your problem? If you don't need (or comprehend) what someone else has written in response to your request for help, just ignore it! What a creep!

Ha. Yet you wrote a multi-sentence paragraph on telling me how my question was pointless , yet I'm the creep? Take your own advice next time and ignore a,post that you can't give useful information on...or that you don't care about.

I think you missed my intention... I was trying to think scientifically, in terms of how much the answers a few people here would give you vs how much logical point there would be. Millions of people every day who want to not feel alone in their unhappiness over medical conditions look at e.g. lists of symptoms (so many overlapping from one 'condition' to the next) of thousands of illnesses trying to connect the dots. But having no educated understanding of what or how they are doing it, and especially in relation to their individual make-up - something doctors spend life times trying to pull together - they end up with quite useless, completely wrong and sometimes even dangerous ideas about themselves, and often then go off on new 'research' tangents trying to fix what they decide is wrong.

I did not suggest you did that as such, but just wanted to caution about using Google (or forum searches) as doctors, or definitive, meaningful answers to their questions. I said I understood wanting to feel part of a particular picture (if not in those words) but how unless you were a doctor would not actually have found out anything beyond a bunch of incidentally matching 'result' numbers to compare yourself to.... and I first asked to what end you were doing it, then expressed my personal opinion about the point of doing it. All you had to do is leave it alone... but chose to be nasty instead, so I reacted to that.

Well, if what I said was the worst thing that happens to you this week, you're getting off pretty lucky I think, but if in fact you took it so personally, I think that says something interesting about you rather than me!

Julie, if you really think I took it personal , that tells me more about you then me. I just found your answer and reponse amusing ..

As an FYI, I think when you have an unusual result that DAD6 did which is a O2 desat result at 58%, it is human nature to want to know if anyone else is in a similar situation.

I think most people who do this realize that the answers they receive are not scientific proof of anything. Some are curious as Dad6 appeared to be regarding his reading. Others do this because ironically, the medical community has failed them big time and they are looking for any clue that might point them in the right direction.

Dad6, as an FYI, my experience was totally the opposite of yours. In two full scale sleep studies, my lowest O2 desats were 91%/90% and those readings were only for a few seconds before they bounced up to a normal level. That is why I caution people that normal O2 readings during the night are not proof that someone doesn't have sleep apnea.

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