Severe mixed apnea at the age of 35

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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Herbert » Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:11 am

ozij wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 4:53 am
Herbert wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 4:29 am
nd one more thing that I did not understand so far: Why do I have so many apneas but my saturation seems to barely drop below 90% even without treatment?
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/d ... ygen-level
For most people, a normal pulse oximeter reading for your oxygen saturation level is between 95% and 100%. If you have a lung disease such as COPD or pneumonia, your normal oxygen saturation level may be lower. Your healthcare provider will let you know what levels are acceptable. Your oxygen saturation levels may also be lower if you live in an area with high elevation.
You said you live at sea level. Whan makes you so happy with 90%?
Did I sound happy? I was just wondering since I already read several times that for others with "classic" osa drops regularly go into the 80s or below. So I was wondering that with my servers case it's comparably moderate in terms of desats... it's not great, that's clear to me.

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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Rubicon » Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:53 am

Herbert wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 2:37 am
Also I was not able to link the desats to the events. mostly they just happen without any root cause in my breathing pattern. Or am I missing something?
It's close enough to see the correlation:

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The desaturations are not problematic.

And anyway take readings with a grain of salt because accuracy is +/- 2%, and that's if somebody is staring at it to insure the signal is good.

Also reports out in 1.0% intervals instead of 0.2% so it's pretty coarse.
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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Rubicon » Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:56 am

Herbert wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:11 am
... it's not great, that's clear to me.
It's fine.
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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Herbert » Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:15 am

Rubicon wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:56 am
Herbert wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:11 am
... it's not great, that's clear to me.
It's fine.
I see you still take some time off your retirement stuff to try to help me. :) thanks! anyway do you probably also have some comments to my other questions?

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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Rubicon » Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:39 am

Herbert wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:15 am
anyway do you probably also have some comments to my other questions?
I thought everything was covered. What's left?
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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Herbert » Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:43 am

Rubicon wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:39 am
Herbert wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:15 am
anyway do you probably also have some comments to my other questions?
I thought everything was covered. What's left?
The question Regarding the raw data of the holster. is it to any use for me? size is 180mb

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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Rubicon » Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:50 am

Sure, let's take a look. Or at least try.
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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by ewriter » Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:48 pm

Hi there,

I hope this is not off topic. I am waking up every night for only the past six weeks or so, with palpitations that returned after i did some heavy work sanding and POLYURETHANE varnishing a floor in July-September last year (have seen the Cardiologist and had several tests done including Echo, Holter, Stress and arrhythmias except for some PVCs or PACS were ruled out). I've followed this issue for many years and it's clear that my OAs in particular are causing me to wake up and have panic attacks. They are EXTREMELY disabling and i became almost psychotic with anxiety over the past month, since my sleep deficit was enormous. I'm only able to sleep using Trazadone, Lorazepam and CALM. PLEASE can anyone help me with how to remove ALL OA's ? I have had pretty good results for the past week but even a single OA (and perhaps some of the hypopneas) can cause me a short-sleep. I also have many arousals. PLEASE can anyone help! My sleep study results are back (took more than about a MONTH to get them) on Wednesday but i would appreciate so much the experience and wisdom from the many suffering from sleep apnea on this Board.

Latest results (not great but the day before was better):
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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Pugsy » Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:08 pm

ewriter wrote:
Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:48 pm
I hope this is not off topic.
Well.....while not "off topic" it is a totally different situation from the OP's original topic and inserting your stuff in his thread
derails his thread and to be honest your stuff is going to get lost here.
If someone responds to you then it makes for a confusing thread.

Ideally you should have your own thread devoted to your problem and not have you derail this thread.
Start your own thread and lets take your problem elsewhere. It doesn't belong in someone else's thread.
Your problem is totally different.

Hijacking someone else's thread is considered a bit rude.

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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by ozij » Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:17 pm

ewriter wrote:
Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:48 pm
I hope this is not off topic.
The OP has been asking about his issue, sanding and all in a number or other topics - created by him, and piggybacking on others'.
This is what I would consider "his own" topic.
How to deal with extreme anxiety over a "flutter" that is intermittent or always there but occulted

No need at all to start another topic.

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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Herbert » Thu Feb 23, 2023 1:56 am

Rubicon wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:50 am
Sure, let's take a look. Or at least try.

My question was in which file format ecg readings usually come and if we even could "view" it. does it usually come in a standard file format?

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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Herbert » Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:00 am

Tonight I did another O2 reading and while O2 levels seem fine, I still get regular spikes in heart rate during the night. As mentioned I suffer from sporadic afib and see this as potential trigger. Is it possible that apneas cause heart rate spikes without serious desats?

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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Rubicon » Thu Feb 23, 2023 3:13 am

Herbert wrote:
Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:00 am
Is it possible that apneas cause heart rate spikes without serious desats?
Of course!
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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Herbert » Thu Feb 23, 2023 3:23 am

Rubicon wrote:
Thu Feb 23, 2023 3:13 am
Herbert wrote:
Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:00 am
Is it possible that apneas cause heart rate spikes without serious desats?
Of course!
Could you let me know how you've been able to include my O2 data into oscar? As I said I wasn't able to achieve that so far. But it would make it much easier for me to see if there are correlations between different breathing patterns and heart rate changes, desats etc... Would be high appreciated :)

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Re: Severe mixed apnea with 35

Post by Rubicon » Thu Feb 23, 2023 3:30 am

Herbert wrote:
Thu Feb 23, 2023 1:56 am
Rubicon wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:50 am
Sure, let's take a look. Or at least try.
My question was in which file format ecg readings usually come and if we even could "view" it. does it usually come in a standard file format?
It depends how proprietary the system is, but looking at raw data is usually pretty easy, it's the analysis part that's missing, so it's the pencil and paper method.
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