09-02-2022, 05:53 PM
O2 Desat Depth & Duration vs. Number of Apneas
Does anyone have any insight on this? Hopefully a bit beyond intelligent educated layman's google research.
I get long deep O2 desaturations, 30 seconds to over 2 minutes. With O2 often diving down into low 80s, sometimes into the 70s.
These occur in 10-30 minute batches, almost certainly during REM.
This means relatively low AHI, categorized as "mild".
While fewer actual arousals may mean sleep as such is less disrupted, seems to me that dozens and dozens of these deep O2 desats must be far from healthy, but don't get as much attention clinically.
I'm sick of waking up several times a night panicked/out of breath. Sick of waking up feeling worse than when I went to bed, like I've been through some intense physical ordeal, and the feel like crap all day recovering from "sleep"!
Any thoughts or insights?
I'd more or less given up on docs for 2-3 years, but I'm going back. Thoughts on what I should tell them ask them to look into, etc?
I get long deep O2 desaturations, 30 seconds to over 2 minutes. With O2 often diving down into low 80s, sometimes into the 70s.
These occur in 10-30 minute batches, almost certainly during REM.
This means relatively low AHI, categorized as "mild".
While fewer actual arousals may mean sleep as such is less disrupted, seems to me that dozens and dozens of these deep O2 desats must be far from healthy, but don't get as much attention clinically.
I'm sick of waking up several times a night panicked/out of breath. Sick of waking up feeling worse than when I went to bed, like I've been through some intense physical ordeal, and the feel like crap all day recovering from "sleep"!
Any thoughts or insights?
I'd more or less given up on docs for 2-3 years, but I'm going back. Thoughts on what I should tell them ask them to look into, etc?
