winnie wrote:Thanks very much , Morbius. I'm wondering what SWJ is, and what the significance of the central apnea is.
I'm wondering if I need CPAP. The people at the DME seem to be idiots, and I don't think my family doctor knows that much about it either. I'm going to have to contact the hospital directly to get the results of the sleep study. My doctor seems to be semi retired or something now, and it takes weeks to get an appointment. The hospital requires a fax before they will give anything out. Not an email, a letter or a phone call. It has to be a fax. I think they do this because they know most people don't have fax machines so it cuts down on requests.
SWJ is Sleep Wake Junk (a term I invented), used to describe single channel data that appears to contaminated by Wake, Movement, Earthquake, etc.
You can send a fax with your computer.
The long sleep study reports will be helpful and a good start. However, it may be necessary to get the raw data and do a similar review to insure that that analysis was not subject to shoddy review. Tell them you have some guy on the internet. That always goes over big.
As noted previously, need to see the effect of the lag movements and look at overall sleep quality.
BTW, unable to look at the night of the 21st (where you had that elevated AHI) and those other areas because the most recent D/L only has the most recent 4 nights of detailed data. If we want to do that we'll need the export of the folder from ResScan or SH.
