What were you, and what are you now?

I did a at home overnight with this http://www.healthcare.philips.com/main/ ... efault.wpd and was diagnosed then with 73.8 AHI and 74% O2 desats. Now, my 30 day average AHI is 0.5, and that is including a head cold that was a challenge about 2 weeks ago.

For me after many years of untreated severe SA/OSA (at least 15, just like Ontario CPAP above) this has turned my professional and my personal life around into very positive directions. Who knew that a little machine that will blow air to stint open my airway could be such a miracle. Now I just wish I could go back and recover all of those wasted years running away from what has now saved and transformed me!!

John

My AHI at the time of my study was 131, all on my sides-no supine at all.

After starting therapy appx. nine months ago at pressures of 17/13 my AHI averaged 2.7 for the first three months. But my leaks with a FFM were awful, so after around three months I started lowering my pressures to see what would happen. The result was a lowering of my AHI each time I dropped my pressures, strange as that may sound. I'm now down to pressures of 11/7, and my AHI is averaging under 1.0. Last night it was 0.3 and it's not unusual for me to see one or more 0.0s each week. I think that at the higher pressures I was losing some therapy efficiency, and with the lower pressures I'm getting the benefit of all of it. Just my theory but it's all I can make compute.

Hi,

I was over 100, but even worse, my O2 levels were down in the 60% range. Today, I am consistently around an AHI of 1.2, and my O2 level never drops below 98%. My AHI is mostly hypos. It is rare for me to record more than one full apnea event per week.

-john-

I was a boy...now I'm a man!

I can't find my copy of the sleep study, but I know the numbers were pretty bad (classified as "severe"). I snored like a chainsaw. I bought my own [used] APAP and played around with the settings until things worked, and haven't touched them since. Just did a "checkup" on the data and I seem to be pretty consistently at an AHI of 0.5.

CPAP therapy raises the baseline of how good "feeling good" is to such an extent that it's easy for me to forget how much it really helps.

From AHI of 81 and desat to 84% to AHI of 0.9, 8 ± hrs/night and 100% compliance,