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sleep nasendoscopy
Hi,
I have mild osa and have been using an a/pap for 2 years now.
I went to the hospital yesterday and and showed them my printouts from my machine and the results from using my Oximeter.
I have tried 1 night of sleeping with no a/pap and the Oximeter showed very clearly that the a/pap does a good job.
I told the doctor that although the a/pap does a good job I am still having apnea's and I would like to have a sleep nasendoscopy and if it showed clearly what is causing the apnea's I would like to have surgery for that.
He said this hospital does not do that because surgery has a high failure rate and think's i should look at using a c/pap as the a/pap is failing me.
he is talking about setting the pressure to 20! I said isn't that an overkill and he said we will start at that and see if apnea's stop and then monitor it.
I do not look forward to a set pressure of 20 and feel i should be going down the sleep nasendoscopy route.
i would be very interested to hear your thoughts on this.
Regards Joe
I have mild osa and have been using an a/pap for 2 years now.
I went to the hospital yesterday and and showed them my printouts from my machine and the results from using my Oximeter.
I have tried 1 night of sleeping with no a/pap and the Oximeter showed very clearly that the a/pap does a good job.
I told the doctor that although the a/pap does a good job I am still having apnea's and I would like to have a sleep nasendoscopy and if it showed clearly what is causing the apnea's I would like to have surgery for that.
He said this hospital does not do that because surgery has a high failure rate and think's i should look at using a c/pap as the a/pap is failing me.
he is talking about setting the pressure to 20! I said isn't that an overkill and he said we will start at that and see if apnea's stop and then monitor it.
I do not look forward to a set pressure of 20 and feel i should be going down the sleep nasendoscopy route.
i would be very interested to hear your thoughts on this.
Regards Joe
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What is your AHI TJ? It is possible to still have centrals and be at optimum pressures. We call this complex apnea.
The system 1 is an amazing machine! The events that call centrals are considered open airway apneas. The only way to validate CSA is to measure respiratory effort.
Tigers Fan said:Aha! Should have thought of that! The machine tells you so! Not magical intuition, after all. I had thought the centrals may wake you differently somehow. Anyway, in my limited understanding of centrals, pressure will have little or nothing to do with them if you are within a gnat's crotchet or two of your optimum.
Brain function is the answer! Alzheimer's would have to be very severe for you to forget to breathe and as your run your life well, I don't suppose that is the cause. CJD is unlikely. Pehaps we'd best wait to see what the medics have to say?
Oh! Why do I think I might be having centrals? Alzeimer's for sure! Seriously - just a maybe becaise I cannot get my AHI down to anything approaching zero - I'd like to be less than 1 consistently. Plus, my duvet suggests my legs are active through the night.
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