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Even with my cpap, I usally have several deep apneas that I notice with my pulse oximeter. One dropped down to an O2 saturation level of 73 last night. Usually they drop down to about 80. I am thinking that this can't be good. With my sleep studies, I have not been able to get much sleep. I think I might be misdiagnosed. My heavy snoring started at age 11 following a concussion, as did my epileptic seizures. My guess is my apneas started then also. I am also self diagnosing myself with having Cheney-Stokes respirations. I suppose I should have another sleep study done and investigate getting bipap treatment. Noah
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Permalink Reply by Ginny Edmundson on
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You should not be having O2 levels that drop below 90, is what I have been told. SOmething about your treatment (CPAP) is not working as it should. Pressure not high enough??? You need to speak to your sleep doctor soon. Hope you get it resolved quickly!
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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Noah, you need to see your sleep doctor ASAP. Desats of that nature are harmful and need to be addressed. Please do not self diagnose this problem. The solution for cheyne-stokes respirations is an ASV machine. If you have another sleep study ask for a sleeping pill. Good luck, keep us posted. If you haven't made an appointment yet, get on the phone now. Do not change your pressure without talking to your doctor.
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I agree with Mary, 100%!!!
Mary Z said:Noah, you need to see your sleep doctor ASAP. Desats of that nature are harmful and need to be addressed. Please do not self diagnose this problem. The solution for cheyne-stokes respirations is an ASV machine. If you have another sleep study ask for a sleeping pill. Good luck, keep us posted. If you haven't made an appointment yet, get on the phone now. Do not change your pressure without talking to your doctor.
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Permalink Reply by mollete on
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Mary Z said:If you have another sleep study ask for a sleeping pill.
That is poor advice. The depressing effects of any pharmacological agent in this obviously complex case could have tragic consequences.
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Permalink Reply by Terry Vella on
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mollete, if you knew what you were talking about you would know that when you have a sleep study you are advised to take your meds and if need to take sleeping pills. You don't have Sleep Apnea and don't have a CPAP so I don't know how you can give advice. Personally I won't be responding to any of you replies and suggest the others do the same. I have mentioned before that I thought this site was for support and advise and all you want to do is argue with the others. If you had Sleep Apnea or any other illness you would know this is the last thing we need. As far as I'm concerned Mary knows alot more about these things than you.
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Terry Vella said:Personally I won't be responding to any of you replies and suggest the others do the same.
I kinda wish you had started with this one.
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Now that I think about it I believe Mollete is right with this one. Soneone with these severe saturations doesn't need any sedation. I gave poor advice.
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Heck, I will take anything to make me sleep during a sleep study. No arguments there. In my two studies, I have only been able to sleep in 15-20 increments and they are basing their findings on that. But yes, thanks Mary. I have contacted my neurologist, so hopefully I can get things lined up and get another sleep study. I have increased my levels. Tried different masks. I am wondering if these desats also may be occurring during leaks. But my take is I do have Cheney-Stokes. I often can catch myself stopping to breath as I enter into sleep with my cpap on. It is common with head injuries and my treatment is not addressing this. I will ask about the ASV machine, and I am even wondering if they have machines that have alarms that would wake me up if I continued to desat. Noah
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My sleep Doc told me it was fine to take an ambien during sleep study. Don't think I would have slept much without it! Good luck and hope you quickly find a solution.
Noah Calderon said:Heck, I will take anything to make me sleep during a sleep study. No arguments there. In my two studies, I have only been able to sleep in 15-20 increments and they are basing their findings on that. But yes, thanks Mary. I have contacted my neurologist, so hopefully I can get things lined up and get another sleep study. I have increased my levels. Tried different masks. I am wondering if these desats also may be occurring during leaks. But my take is I do have Cheney-Stokes. I often can catch myself stopping to breath as I enter into sleep with my cpap on. It is common with head injuries and my treatment is not addressing this. I will ask about the ASV machine, and I am even wondering if they have machines that have alarms that would wake me up if I continued to desat. Noah
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Noah Calderon said:
Heck, I will take anything to make me sleep during a sleep study.
Be careful what you wish for.Here is case of severely suppressed arousal threshold secondary to Ambien resulting in a staggeringly long central apnea with significant desaturation:
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Noah, I'm sure they will have professionals on hand to advise about the sleep meds and someone watching you all night. When you go, try to relax (easier said than done). What's more important is that you take two of each animal with you! Only joking, a bit of Australian Easter humour, I'm sure you get that one all the time, Happy Easter as it's Good Friday here and good luck with it.
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Yes Mollete. I am very careful. I am epileptic and also have severe sleep apnea. I don't drink alcohol, and am very careful about what kinds of medications I take. I was refering to me sleep study. My last two studies I have only been able to sleep for 15-20 minute increments, which I am sure results in a skewed diagnosis. I am willing to take something safe for my next sleep study so that I can get better results.
mollete said:Noah Calderon said:
Heck, I will take anything to make me sleep during a sleep study.
Be careful what you wish for.Here is case of severely suppressed arousal threshold secondary to Ambien resulting in a staggeringly long central apnea with significant desaturation:
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