Sleep Study Results -Need Help Deciphering

Hi everyone.I got my results back, and it seems kind of hard to decipher them, Hoping you all can help me out

Sleep Architecture: Total Recording Time: 430.8 Minutes. Total period of sleep: 294.5 Minutes
Sleep efficiency was decreased at 68.4%. Sleep latency was increased at 11.8 minutes(is this a good/normal thing?)

Sleep Stage Summary(I really didnt get this part): Wake After Sleep Onset: 124.5 MInutes. REM Latency increased at 151 minutes. Sleep staging revealed 13.9% N1; 61% N2; 7.5% N3; 17.5 R. 2 REM periods noted

Sleep Continuity Summary: 111 stage shifts with 29 awakenings. Sleep architecture was abnormal with an increase in sleep latency. 176 arousals, 141 of which were secondary ti respiratory disturbance, 0 were secondary to periodic leg movements and 28 were spontaneous. Spent 95% of time in supine position.

Respiratory Disturbance Event Summary: 0 central apneas, 0 obstructive apneas, 0mixed apneas, and 31 hypopneas with 3% desaturation and 9 hypopneas with 4% desaturation. Apnea-hypoanea indec: 6.3 events per hour of sleep with a 3% desaturation and 1.8 events per hour with a 4% desaturation. Lowest saturation 93.0% during both REM and non-REM sleep. Longest event was a hypopnea of 116.5 seconds during 3% and 4% desaturation.

During the night, a nasal pressure transducer was used to detect respiratory event-related arousals. A total of 126 respiratory effort related arousals were noted for an index of 25.7 respiratory effort-related arousals per hour of sleep. this gives a total of 32.2 events per hour of sleep. Intermittent snoring was noted throughout the night

Heart Rate Summary: Mean Heart Rate was 62.1 beats per minute with highest at 97.0 and lowest at 49.0. No dysrythmias were seen

Limb Movements: none

Oxygen Saturation Summary: Lowest saturation was at 93% and oxygen saturation stayed at or below 89% for 0% of the total sleep time

Impression:
1. Mild OSA with an apnea- hypopnea index: 6.3 events per hour with a 3% or greater desaturation and mild OSA with an apnea hypopnea index of 1.8 events per hour of sleep with a 4% or greater desaturation
2. Severe upper airway resistance syndrome with a respiratory distrubance index of 32.2 events per hour of sleep. An insufficent number of apneas or hypopneas were noted to make a diagnosis of OSA

Starting to think my sleep problems are not fully apnea related, since falling asleep, not actually being asleep, seems to be where I have trouble recently. I did look into exploding head syndrome, and if you saw my earlier posts, this seems closer to that, although maybe they are overlapping somehow?

Read this.

http://adventures-in-hosehead-land.blog ... -test.html

And then start reading up on UARS Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome.
Google "Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome" and start reading and there is tons and tons of information out there.

CPAP therapy is still the standard therapy to try for UARS.
Insurance sometimes doesn't get on the band wagon for UARS diagnosis though...in terms of paying for the equipment.