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barbyann · Post by **barbyann** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:27 pm

Well, I got the data today. After 6 weeks of treatment it shows:

AHI 1.3 events per hour
AI 0.0 events per hour
HI 1.2 events per hour
time in apnea 0.0% mask on time

pressure 95th centile 11.8 cm
median pressure 9.8 cm
maximum pressure 12.0 cm

leak 95th centile 0.02 l/sec.
median leak 0.00 l/sec.
maximum leak 0.96 l/sec.

The sleep center was thrilled by my compliance. I am so happy my blood pressure is down but I still cannot report feeling any better. In the last two weeks I have gotten in four fights "word exchanges". Two at work and two out in the community. This is not like me. Now I am wondering if this is the real me and I have only been too tired to act up like my real self over the past twenty years. I was very verbally aggressive as a teen and I wonder if this is my true baseline?

On a lighter note, I had a flashback the other day to when I was a little girl. My mother would make me go to bed at a very early hour. I was not tired and would make up games to pass the time. My favorite game was to hold my breath for as long as I could and time it on the clock radio. Ironic isn't it? Apnea, jump rope and hopscotch, my childhood games!

john5757 · Post by **john5757** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:08 pm

Hi barbyann,

Yes your emotions can come alive once you leave you brain fog and at the same time I feel more calm waking up when I got the ResMed Spirit to replace the Remstar I had. It took me a few months to feel better physicaly. Now after one year on CPAP I feel younger in some ways that I was before...

John

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barbyann · Post by **barbyann** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:45 pm

I would love to feel younger.......just less argumentative.

NOzsnAZ · Post by **NOzsnAZ** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:44 pm

Yes your emotions can come alive once you leave you brain frog ....

Brain Frog??? Ribbett...ribbett...

I was very verbally aggressive as a teen

Is that a nice way of saying what I think you're saying?

I had 2 sisters that I probably should have called "verbally aggressive" as opposed to the b-word I used. Ahh, older and wiser now I guess....

You were too tired to "act up" and soon you'll be too full of life to want to. It doesn't happen over night and you'll have good days and then seem to regress. No one said it was easy but most will tell you it sure is worth it.

Keep the chin up!

NOzsnAZ

barbyann · Post by **barbyann** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:18 pm

I have two brothers that would probably agree with you. My family always thought I would become a lawyer because my favorite thing to do was argue. Maybe I should look into law school?

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:00 pm

barbyann,

At some time I would love to explore the issue of practising holding your breath. I too used to do this from an early age.

1) I used to go under the bath water & try to hold my breath.

2) At 13 in a competition to recover spoons from the bottom of a shipboard pool & up against all adults, a navy diver beat me for biggest # recovered

3) When in 20s I used to swim under water for as long as I could - my record was doing just under 2 lengths of an olympic pool.

4) Then I got into relaxation exercises & used to consciously practise no breathing & very shallow breathing

Reason I bring this up is my wife repeatedly says & still says (since xPAP) that I still go to sleep then at some point just slow my breathing & seem to stop.

In my sleep study I did not register any 'centrals' so I concluded the breathing was not a cause.

I did take this issue up with my sleep clinic specialist who said she seriously doubted that slowing breathing I had done in my past, was any issue in SA/OSA studies for one very simple biological reason, when we go into early & deep sleep, breathing become automatic & not in our conscious control.

But her explanation didn't clarify for me what causes 'Centrals' - (central apneas being when our automatic breathing slows & stops.

I am interested in any info re this issue & also re centrals.

We have discussed this here in the past & also certain types of breathing that some people practice.

Cheers

DSM

barbyann · Post by **barbyann** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:14 pm

I saw on the news that kids in my area are experimenting with auto-asphyxiation, the practice of cutting off O2 to the brain in order to produce a "high". That is not why I did the breathe holding as a child. I simply did it to try and be competitive with myself, trying to better my time every night. Breathing is a fascinating topic. Central Apnea was long thought to be the cause of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Research did not pan out and other theories are now more promising. I will send any info your way if I see it in my web travels.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:35 pm

Reason I am following thru on this topic is that since using the Spirit & extracting the data for analysis, my numers are shown to be HIs (Hypops) which as far as I can interpret, are possibly centrals due to their being so few AIs.

They do also appear to increase with increased pressure - a very interesting aspect.

DSM

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