AHI 5.7, positional sleep apnea- no CPAP?

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Re: RE: Positional sleep apnea, missed diagnosis as a teenager. Starting CPAP

Post by palerider » Sat Nov 17, 2018 12:41 pm

ilatruman wrote:
Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:14 am
I hadn’t had any CAs on my recent sleep study so that was interesting.
Not really... There's a little mentioned type of apnea called "transition apnea", (also referred to as swj (sleep wake junk) here... It happens when your body is transitioning between wake breathing and sleep breathing... and if you're drifting in and out of sleep... can happen a number of times during the night. In a sleep study, they'd know (because of the EEG) that it's not a real central, and thus wouldn't score it. All the cpap knows is that you stopped trying to breathe... but it doens't know why, so it scores a central, in error.

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