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I should be an expert by now, but education is a life time event so I am told. My Sleepyhead Report confuses me, it talks about CA which is central apnoea and obstructive apnoea. Looking at the report Central apnoea accounts for 2./3 and obstructive 1/3 what is what. I cannot make any of this out. I have an APAP machine for a few months to see if my Px needs changing.
Ideas ?
Ken
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Permalink Reply by Sleep2snore on
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Really you should have a full hospital Sleep Study done if you have not had one.
If you have had a Sleep Study done they would be aware of the Central Sleep Apnoeas.
This can be because your brain stops sending signals for you to breath (as I understand it) and is not so easy to treat as OSA.
Obstructive Sleep Apnoeas is when your throat collapses or your tongue slips back into the back of the mouth restricting your throat, this causes you to stop breathing until your brain senses you are not getting oxygen and wakes you up.
This is why you feel so tired in the morning and sometimes you have a fuzzy or sore head due to lack of oxygen going to the brain. It can take up to in bad cases 45 seconds for your brain to wake you up (try holding your breath for 30 seconds!) so it can be quite detrimental to your health.
If you did have a sleep study done in the hospital ask if CSA showed up on your results.
Ask for your results in any case, some will give you a copy, others are reluctant to!
However, the results are your results and you can ask what they found.
If you didn't have a full sleep study done in hospital I would ask for one, you need to fine out.
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Permalink Reply by Kath Hope on
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I agree with Sleep2Snore that a hospital study is needed to check if you have centrals without the APAP. See my most recent comment on Russ' post http://hope2sleepguide.co.uk/forum/topics/mixed-apnoeas
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