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----- He purchased it
in
March of 1992 and has not gone
a
day without it. At the start of
the
new millennium he had used it
3220
consecutive nights with the machine, not missing a beat.
.................................................................................................................................................................................. Seven hours a night gave him all the rest to do a full days work. Before he was getting only 60% of the oxygen needed to have his brain function properly during sleep and he looked gray during the day. Checking through the gate to catch a plane is sometimes funny but that is getting better. Who knows when my pressure requirements changed. My son also uses a CPAP machine. |
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| Now 16
years later, December, 2008, I have had a new sleep test. For the last
couple of years I have been too tired again. The tests are more
thorough these days. My test was made at Group Health Hospital in
Seattle on a Friday night. I do not know how many hours each type of
test was taken. First I slept without a cpap machine to give numbers to compare to. The resulting units for AHI was 50.97, considered a serious cause for concern. I then used the CPAP machine the remainder of the night where is was set at about the same 10 cm H2O as I had been using for years. The results was still about the same. The pressure was changed to 15cm H2O, where the AHI number went to 0. Before a new machine is purchased I will be using a SMART CPAP, that adjusts cm's of H2O automatically. AHI: is equal to the average number of episodes of Apnea and Hypopnea per hour of sleep. APNEA: is where breathing is interrupted during sleep. HYPOPNEA: is when upper airways are obstructed recurrently during sleep. |
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