Hi all.
My CPAP tells me I have very low AHI (always below 1 per hour and 0.4 per hour
on average this month).
I am not sure how to understand this result:
A/ I no longer need my CPAP as there is no respiratory event to "fix"
or
B/ the CPAP works very well for me since it brings my event close to none
Shall I keep my machine as my nightstand friend?
very low AHI, do I still need the machine???
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Re: very low AHI, do I still need the machine???
It's this:
There's no way to know how many apnea events never happened because they were prevented in the first place.
It might have prevented 100 airway collapses for all you know.
Yes...it still needs to be your best friend on the nightstand.
It's like wearing glasses...your vision is fixed only when wearing those glasses...you take them off and not use them and your vision goes to crap real fast. It's a temporary fix...not a permanent cure.
What you are seeing reported are the events that slipped past the defenses and happened.cpaptalkmtl wrote:B/ the CPAP works very well for me since it brings my event close to none
There's no way to know how many apnea events never happened because they were prevented in the first place.
It might have prevented 100 airway collapses for all you know.
Yes...it still needs to be your best friend on the nightstand.
It's like wearing glasses...your vision is fixed only when wearing those glasses...you take them off and not use them and your vision goes to crap real fast. It's a temporary fix...not a permanent cure.
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Re: very low AHI, do I still need the machine???
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Re: very low AHI, do I still need the machine???
thx pugsy for the answer,
thx goodproof for the humor.
thx goodproof for the humor.
Re: very low AHI, do I still need the machine???
substitute "glasses".cpaptalkmtl wrote:Hi all.
My CPAP tells me I have very low AHI (always below 1 per hour and 0.4 per hour
on average this month).
I am not sure how to understand this result:
A/ I no longer need my CPAP as there is no respiratory event to "fix"
or
B/ the CPAP works very well for me since it brings my event close to none
Shall I keep my machine as my nightstand friend?
I can see well with my glasses, does this mean I don't need my glasses anymore?
in other words, that low AHI while using the machine, is just like being able to see while wearing glasses, it just means the treatment is working, not that you're 'cured'.
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Re: very low AHI, do I still need the machine???
B. How could it possibly be any other way?
Apnea is pretty much permanent--until someone comes up with a cure.
It just does not go away spontaneously, though that would be nice . . .
Apnea is pretty much permanent--until someone comes up with a cure.
It just does not go away spontaneously, though that would be nice . . .
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Re: very low AHI, do I still need the machine???
As already stated, you low AHI is almost certainly due to your successful use of the machine. The machine simply "turns off" your sleep apnea, it doesn't cure or remove it.
Re: very low AHI, do I still need the machine???
After starting CPAP trial I was also wondering if all this discomfort was really necessary given my CPAP AHI has only gone over 1 once in 16 nights, and I'm mainly recording CAs.
When I saw my sleep doctor this week I asked if it were possible I'd been misdiagnosed because the sleep lab stuffed up so many results the night of my sleep study (study not done with my current sleep doctor). He said no, the results/graphs he was seeing on CPAP were consistent with my initial AHI of 21.2. This was reassuring, and made me realise even if my sleepyhead graphs look really boring it doesn't mean I don't have a health issue.
When I saw my sleep doctor this week I asked if it were possible I'd been misdiagnosed because the sleep lab stuffed up so many results the night of my sleep study (study not done with my current sleep doctor). He said no, the results/graphs he was seeing on CPAP were consistent with my initial AHI of 21.2. This was reassuring, and made me realise even if my sleepyhead graphs look really boring it doesn't mean I don't have a health issue.
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