Anonymous wrote:Anybody know what percentage of people that have sleep apnea suffer from centrals?
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I have never seen any percentages, but I do know once you leave the sleep lab you have absolutely no way of monitoring them, you have no idea if they get better or worse, you can only assume they are still there.
some people can go in for the study, find their pressure put it on every night and be just fine and feel like a million bucks. Others can go more than 5yrs looking for the thing that leaves you feeling rested again and you may never really find it. So you keep exploring, trying different machines, options, etc. or anything that may improve the situation.
I'm told it is rare, but there has to be more people with it than what is advertised for them to put up money and manpower such as what was done with complex sleep disordered breathing and for them to go to the time and expense to develop special machines to address it, like the Resmed VPAP Adap SV and Respironics with their gray model, they wouldn't be developing those machines and doing those studies if there was only a hand full of patients.
I always like the doctor that says the ones seen on the PSG are insignificant, yeah insignificant for them because they don't know what to do about them, anyway, but if you have them even a few per night and the residual fatigue associated with them they are far from insignificant.
the point is once you leave the lab, you loose the ability to monitor them, so you have no idea if they still exist, are insignificant as the doctor says or if they are getting worse. All you know is you feel like the walking dead the next day.
Then you go back to your ABSM certified sleep doc and he doesn't have a single clue other than send you for a 5th or 6th PSG. My sleep doc owns the sleep lab I went to, so I know I'll never find any answers from that guy and he was one of the first to become ABSM certified.
There is a lot to these sleep disorders left unresearched and/or no answers can be found.