I have searched for this information and have not found any indications of what the numbers should be from a ideal sleep study. If I need to keep searching I will, if someone would be so kinda as to give me an idea of "normal" (if there is a normal) numbers are, I would appreciate it.


Here are my questions:

1. Severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome with an anpeic/hypopneic index of 112 events per hour and associated with oxygen desaturations at 58% with some apneas lasting 43 seconds.

2. Nocturnal Hypoxia with 70 minutes below 88% saturation.

3. Fragmented sleep with an arousal index of 117 events per hour.

4. Epworth Sleepiness Score of 22. I found that one!

5. Apneic index of 60 events per hour

6. Hyponeic index of 52 events per hour

7. Apneic/hypopneic index of 112 events per hour

8. 168 hypopneas.

9. Longest hypopneic episode was 31 seconds

10. Mean awake, REM, and nonREM saturations were 92, 88, 90%

11. Heart rate ranged between 48 and 112 bpm

Recommendation

CPAP at 14cm of pressure


OK, I know this is too much information but if someone could maybe tell me the norms for some of this that would be great.

On a side note
I was surfing this forum last night and realized that I had adjusted my machine to a pressure of 10 so that I could get used to it. Well I never adjusted it back to 14 until last night! I got the best night of sleep in a very long time.

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I'm not a doctor, so I don't really have any business interpreting the results of anyone's sleep study.

But, I wouldn't mind sharing a few things with you.

The AHI, or Apnea/Hypopnea index of healthy folks tends to fall within the range of 0-10. That means they'll either stop breathing or not breathe as deeply as they should, anywhere from 0 to ten times per hour. You seem to have averaged 112 events per hour during your study.

If your blood oxygenation level falls below 94% or so while you're in the hospital for any reason, they'll usually put you on supplemental oxygen. Your blood oxygen level apparently fell as low as 58%, and was below 88% for 70 minutes of your sleep time.

Your AHI and blood oxygen numbers are pretty much in the same ballpark as mine. For what it's worth, more than one specialist has told me that I have as severe a case of OSA as he or she has ever seen.

Glad to hear that you're sleeping better! Good luck with your therapy.

Carl

Thanks for the info. That is all I really wanted to know.

I have used this board in the past to help me cope with sleeping with something strapped to my head and it really has helped.

Thank you guys for keeping up this forum!