Newbie report

Hello all,

New to the board and all this. My psychiatrists/sleep specialist had me do an in-home sleep study for suspected apnea...here are the results below. I'm not sure what all the numbers mean...mild/moderate, etc? Is this something I could treat preferably with an oral appliance instead of cpap? I guess I have to wait to see what the psychiatrist advices but I wanted to have an idea from the experts here as it seems you all are very informed on this subject. Thank you in advance!

The total testing time was 9:00 hours. In bed time was 8:47 hours. Snoring with flow limitation was primarily noted with the
patient in the supine and lateral positions. 3 obstructive apneas, 1 central apneas and 69 hypopneas produced a AHI of
8.4 events per hour in total, with an AHI of 8.6 events per hour in the supine position. Oxyhemoglobin desaturation
reached a nadir of 89.0% and 0.0% of the total testing time was spent at an oxygen saturation below 90% on room air.
DIAGNOSIS
1. Obstructive Sleep Apnea
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Due to the presence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, PAP therapy is advised. Other treatment options include oral
appliance therapy and upper airway surgery. Will discuss options with patient and then proceed with treatment.
2. Avoidance of the supine position and weight loss is recommended to reduce the patient's apnea.

Welcome to the forum.

Read this to help you understand the results you are seeing.
http://adventures-in-hosehead-land.blog ... -test.html

Your OSA is "mild" in terms of classification. If you want to go the oral device route...might work out just fine for you but be sure to have a sleep study done while using the device to make sure it does a good job.

This is a cpap help forum so most people here prefer or are using cpap to deal with their OSA. So you aren't going to get a lot of responses about oral devices except maybe from people here using cpap because the oral device didn't work out so great.
There is simply no reason for someone with OSA using only the oral device to hang out here.

There is more to OSA than just the AHI though...so don't go basing all your decisions on just the AHI.
You might want to watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gie2dh ... e=youtu.be