12-07-2019, 12:09 PM
OSA too mild to treat with CPAP? other sleep issues?
Both my parents have sleep apnea and use CPAPs. Mom wasn't diagnosed until after her heart attack, but Dad and his brother have had severe sleep apnea and have used CPAPs for decades.
I'm female, early middle age, am not that overweight, and don't have an abnormally large neck. I sleep on my side and I've used phone apps to record myself snoring, and it's fairly mild.
I've got multiple co-existing conditions some of which frequently occur with OSA, some of which cause insomnia or unrefreshing sleep for reasons unrelated to OSA
I had an in lab sleep study done somewhere around 15 years ago, which did not show sleep apnea or restless legs syndrome. They diagnosed Delayed Phase Sleep Disorder.
In the past 4-5 months I've been having issues where I'm having dreamlike episodes while awake if I close my eyes. They are extremely brief, 1-10 seconds, but like my usual dreams, tend to be bizarre and have no relation to the reality going on around me and/or are things that wouldnt happen in real life. Once in a while I get these things in situations where I'm almost certain my eyes were open or were just blinking. Twice Ive gotten them while driving. I do have difficulty going to sleep most nights, and I've also had these microdreams while trying to fall asleep - with a conscious train of thought before and after the dream.
Medical professionals I've talked to have described this as being hypnogogic hallucinations. Based on my research, it could also be narcolepsy, so I was pushing getting the version of the sleep study where they do the daytime sleep latency test afterwards. But my insurance wouldn't pay for it without doing an at home study.
I got the equipment to do an at home sleep study about a month ago. I fell asleep with the lights on while hooking it up, and only woke up and turned it on for the last two hours of sleep. The sleep lab had told me that I needed to have it on for four hours to have a valid sleep study.
I got a call back saying they needed to book the second part of the sleep study. So I figured that it was the in lab study with the sleep latency test. There was some confusion about scheduling the study, and they wouldn't tell me the results before my doctors appointment. And then I found out that the "second part" was actually the CPAP titration, so I must have sleep apnea.
I called back and begged to get my results, and found out that in those 2 hours I apparently had 12.1 AHI, along with an oxygen saturation of 88%
Two questions:
1. With these kind of numbers, am I likely to have a noticeably better night's sleep? In terms of energy and mental clarity, both of which have been diminishing in the past couple years.
2. My dad told me that his DME supplier told him that he's due for a new CPAP. His current one looks identical to mom's Resmed Airsense Auto 10, but it's 5 years old. Since I'm unemployed, would I be able to use Dad's old machine if I disinfect it? Would that keep me from getting supplies like masks and filters covered?
I'm female, early middle age, am not that overweight, and don't have an abnormally large neck. I sleep on my side and I've used phone apps to record myself snoring, and it's fairly mild.
I've got multiple co-existing conditions some of which frequently occur with OSA, some of which cause insomnia or unrefreshing sleep for reasons unrelated to OSA
I had an in lab sleep study done somewhere around 15 years ago, which did not show sleep apnea or restless legs syndrome. They diagnosed Delayed Phase Sleep Disorder.
In the past 4-5 months I've been having issues where I'm having dreamlike episodes while awake if I close my eyes. They are extremely brief, 1-10 seconds, but like my usual dreams, tend to be bizarre and have no relation to the reality going on around me and/or are things that wouldnt happen in real life. Once in a while I get these things in situations where I'm almost certain my eyes were open or were just blinking. Twice Ive gotten them while driving. I do have difficulty going to sleep most nights, and I've also had these microdreams while trying to fall asleep - with a conscious train of thought before and after the dream.
Medical professionals I've talked to have described this as being hypnogogic hallucinations. Based on my research, it could also be narcolepsy, so I was pushing getting the version of the sleep study where they do the daytime sleep latency test afterwards. But my insurance wouldn't pay for it without doing an at home study.
I got the equipment to do an at home sleep study about a month ago. I fell asleep with the lights on while hooking it up, and only woke up and turned it on for the last two hours of sleep. The sleep lab had told me that I needed to have it on for four hours to have a valid sleep study.
I got a call back saying they needed to book the second part of the sleep study. So I figured that it was the in lab study with the sleep latency test. There was some confusion about scheduling the study, and they wouldn't tell me the results before my doctors appointment. And then I found out that the "second part" was actually the CPAP titration, so I must have sleep apnea.
I called back and begged to get my results, and found out that in those 2 hours I apparently had 12.1 AHI, along with an oxygen saturation of 88%
Two questions:
1. With these kind of numbers, am I likely to have a noticeably better night's sleep? In terms of energy and mental clarity, both of which have been diminishing in the past couple years.
2. My dad told me that his DME supplier told him that he's due for a new CPAP. His current one looks identical to mom's Resmed Airsense Auto 10, but it's 5 years old. Since I'm unemployed, would I be able to use Dad's old machine if I disinfect it? Would that keep me from getting supplies like masks and filters covered?
