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What do you guys think? - Reznik - 04-15-2018
I'm trying my hand at posting charts for the first time, and so I hope this works.
I'm going to post a chart that shows a typical hypopnea that I experience. Can anyone look at this and tell me what's going on here, particularly in the two breaths **before** the hypopnea actually occurs?
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Also, sometimes I get a group of apneas. When I zoom out, it kinds looks like CSR to me. What do you guys think?
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RE: What do you guys think? - Walla Walla - 04-15-2018
It's called a sigh. It's a normal for it to happen during the night. Just a person talking a deep breath and letting it out. It leads to suppressed breaths for few seconds. It's not a hypopnea but the machine counts them like one.
RE: What do you guys think? - Reznik - 04-15-2018
(04-15-2018, 03:46 PM)Walla Walla Wrote: It's called a sigh. It's a normal for it to happen during the night. Just a person talking a deep breath and letting it out. It leads to suppressed breaths for few seconds. It's not a hypopnea but the machine counts them like one.
Walla Walla,
Thank you very much for responding.
I find that the many of my detected events look just like this one. Are you saying that, when computing my AHI, I should disregard them? In other words, they are not apneas, and a higher pressure will do nothing to resolve them?
Interestingly, if I'm using a machine with Central Apnea Detection turned on, it often fails to see the tiny breaths, and counts it as an **apnea**. If I'm in autoset mode, the pressure will increase as well.
Do you have any thoughts on the second graph that I posted?
RE: What do you guys think? - Reznik - 04-15-2018
Here's another image showing what looks to my uninformed eye like periodic breathing. Again, I'd love any thoughts from people with more experience than I...
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RE: What do you guys think? - Walla Walla - 04-15-2018
It looks like it's obstructive flow limitation. The first chart had unknown events but I think they were obstructive. Same with the second chart but they're not counted as events because they don't last long enough. Well that's my guess until Sleeprider says I'm wrong.
