Severe mixed apnea at the age of 35
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 6:49 am
Hey guys,
I'm new to this board an hope you may share your experience.
I'm 35, male, generally healthy, not overweight or similar. Due to sudden afib episodes last year a few months after covid is was also screened for sleep apnea, despite I've never snored. Unfortunately the results turned out that I had severe mixed apnea. 2/3 of it were hypopneas and 1/3 central apneas. Nothing obstructive at all. The reason the sleep lab diagnosed mixed apnea was, that they recorded constant snoring, which was really strange to me. If you ask me, also my hypopneas are central.
Next day I was put on cpap and miraculously it helped with both, hypopneas and central apneas. While I had an AHI of 58 in my first night recording without therapy, under cpap it went down to an AHI of 2. This is the first strange thin to me: Why does cpap seem to help, while it usually shouldn't have an effect on the central apneas.
This was great news, considering the general diagnosis. Now what is still buggering me, is that when checking Oscar I found out I have periodic breathing every night. My Resmed 10 sometimes even marks it as CSR. Sometimes it shows the regular pattern with the periods and central apneas in between each period. sometimes it's only hypopneas in between or even milder. Looking through my data of each night, it seems as if I had some degree of periodic pattern underlying my breathing g most of the time, but mostly the ups and downs are so mild, that you only barely see it.
My heart and brain have been checked thoroughly including MRIs. Still I'm very concerned about what might be causing all this nonsense and if my therapy really fits.
Hope to have some exchange with you guys. PS: I did mot yet find out how to upload Screenshots here. Otherwise I would have directly attached some of my Oscar screenies.
BR,
Herbert
I'm new to this board an hope you may share your experience.
I'm 35, male, generally healthy, not overweight or similar. Due to sudden afib episodes last year a few months after covid is was also screened for sleep apnea, despite I've never snored. Unfortunately the results turned out that I had severe mixed apnea. 2/3 of it were hypopneas and 1/3 central apneas. Nothing obstructive at all. The reason the sleep lab diagnosed mixed apnea was, that they recorded constant snoring, which was really strange to me. If you ask me, also my hypopneas are central.
Next day I was put on cpap and miraculously it helped with both, hypopneas and central apneas. While I had an AHI of 58 in my first night recording without therapy, under cpap it went down to an AHI of 2. This is the first strange thin to me: Why does cpap seem to help, while it usually shouldn't have an effect on the central apneas.
This was great news, considering the general diagnosis. Now what is still buggering me, is that when checking Oscar I found out I have periodic breathing every night. My Resmed 10 sometimes even marks it as CSR. Sometimes it shows the regular pattern with the periods and central apneas in between each period. sometimes it's only hypopneas in between or even milder. Looking through my data of each night, it seems as if I had some degree of periodic pattern underlying my breathing g most of the time, but mostly the ups and downs are so mild, that you only barely see it.
My heart and brain have been checked thoroughly including MRIs. Still I'm very concerned about what might be causing all this nonsense and if my therapy really fits.
Hope to have some exchange with you guys. PS: I did mot yet find out how to upload Screenshots here. Otherwise I would have directly attached some of my Oscar screenies.
BR,
Herbert
