25% Periodic Breathing

dankoziolek wrote:My sleep doctor told me not to pay any attention to the periodic breathing numbers on my machine because it isn't accurate accurate enough to really tell and I am not diagnosed with it.

Did your doctor actually look at your waveforms, not just the PB number? If he didn't look at the waveforms and see how deeply and how often you were going into apnea, he's incompetent.

Your CPAP records actual breathing waveforms during your actual sleep at home. No ifs, ands, or buts. A one night study in the lab may or may not show the same problems. You may not sleep and breathe the same way in a different bed hooked up to wires, with a different CPAP machine, and with different settings.

archangle wrote:

dankoziolek wrote:My sleep doctor told me not to pay any attention to the periodic breathing numbers on my machine because it isn't accurate accurate enough to really tell and I am not diagnosed with it.

Did your doctor actually look at your waveforms, not just the PB number? If he didn't look at the waveforms and see how deeply and how often you were going into apnea, he's incompetent.

Your CPAP records actual breathing waveforms during your actual sleep at home. No ifs, ands, or buts. A one night study in the lab may or may not show the same problems. You may not sleep and breathe the same way in a different bed hooked up to wires, with a different CPAP machine, and with different settings.

Apparently, the OP sees his CV guy today. Let's see what he (CV guy) says if he (OP) reports back.

archangle wrote:Your CPAP records actual breathing waveforms during your actual sleep at home. No ifs, ands, or buts. A one night study in the lab may or may not show the same problems. You may not sleep and breathe the same way in a different bed hooked up to wires, with a different CPAP machine, and with different settings.

I'm totally onboard with that concept, especially if you have to take sleep meds to get yourself to sleep - that only complicates interpretation .