My Sleep Study Results

snowloft · Post by **snowloft** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:45 pm

I'm on CPAP now for about 3-4 weeks, and am feeling great. I finally got a copy of my first sleep study results:

Total Time Analyzed: 535.1 minutes
Sleep Period: 469.0 minutes
Wake Time During Sleep Period: 154.5 minutes
Total Sleep Time: 314.5 minutes
Sleep Onset: 66.2 minutes
Sleep Efficiency: 58.8%
Number of Awakenings: 25
Number of Movement Time Epochs: 0
Sleep Latency to S1: 435.7 minutes
Sleep Latency to S2: 66.2 minutes
Sleep Latency to SWS (S3 or S4): -
REM Latency from Sleep Onset: -
Apnea + Hypopnea (A+H): 713 136.0/hour
Obstructive: 278 53.0/hour
Central: 0
Mixed: 0
Hypopnea: 435 83.0/hour
Oxygen Desaturation Events (OD): 270 51.5/hour

Diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea of Severe Degree

Sleep EEG Abnormal, no REM sleep was recorded, no Slow Wave Sleep was seen at all.

Grabraham · Post by **Grabraham** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:33 pm

Looks like you were having a few issues in your sleep CPAP is a wonderfull thing

yawn · Post by **yawn** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:09 pm

Wow...your numbers are "impressive". I'm so glad CPAP is helping you!

snowloft · Post by **snowloft** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:00 pm

Well, I don't understand half of it. But I'm told the results were fairly bad. At any rate, CPAP is bringing me lots of relief.

Jan in Colo. · Post by **Jan in Colo.** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:15 pm

An AHI of 136 per hour? That's not good, lol! They consider anything above THIRTY to be "severe apnea".

I'm so glad the CPAP is working for you. Just stick to it religiously, because you do seem to have a very severe case of apnea. It would be especially important to you to be absolutely as compliant with your treatment as possible.

Mine's pretty bad at 85 AHI....but you definitely have me beat!

Jan in Colo.

Fatigue Fighter · Post by **Fatigue Fighter** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:38 pm

Welcome Snowloft!

You certainly do need CPAP. I'm glad you are on treatment and that it is working for you. It is true that Severe Sleep Apnea is based on the 30 AHI per hour measure but it can also be severe if you are somewhat less than 30 and your oxygen saturation is way too low. I bet your sleep efficiency is now a lot better too

FF

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:10 am

What is means is that you breathing is so terrible osbtructed that you're getting no deep restful sleep, nor any dream time.

The deep restful sleep is SWS = Slow Wave Sleep (this refers to the EEG waves), it occurs in what they call stage and stage 4 of the sleep cycle.

Dreams happen during Rapid Eye Movement sleep.

Both SWS and REM sleep are necessary for us to rest and recuperate. You are just dozing through the night (stage 1 and stage 2 sleep) and being jolted awake because of breathing obstructions about every half minute.

And it's wonderful that CPAP is doing what it should for you.

Welcome!

O.

snowloft · Post by **snowloft** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:15 am

Thanks for all the great posts. The funny thing about the sleep study is that they did not record any REM or SWS, I did dream that night.

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