At home sleep test results

Sleep is so important to health and immune function i really think its worth treating sleep apnea if its present.

Especially if fighting an infection.

I am similarly lioking for pote tial blocking factors and wondered if i might have sleep apnea also.
I have had people tell me i snore REALLY LOUDLY.

I did an iphone based snorelab thing a few weeks ago and it showed some moderate snoring at times in the night but my fit it thing shows low O2 saturation variability so it doesn't look like i have too much of a problem.

curious how the home sleep study works.

interesting - and not too invasive

but overall - seems not v different to what a fitbit and phone app are doing wirelessly

let us know how the appt goes and treatment experiences

BTW one of the reasons i looked into this is a paper i read ( may have posted about it here in the past ) that showed even mild sleep apnoea actually causes increased gut membrane permeability via hypoperfusion-reperfusion injury to the tiny blood vessels in the gut lining - and we know of quite a few downstream effects on inflammation, food intolerance, immune disruption, auto-immunity that overlap with chronic Lyme and can flow from that

Garzie - I'm not familiar with the fitbit but I have used apple watch versions of such things. This was FAR more comprehensive and detailed than that was. The o2 and heart rate monitoring is continuous vs snapshots every so many minutes etc. I wouldn't have caught this from my apple watch. I have been told in the past I snore lightly on occasion - but this rather definitively showed I'm stopping breathing.

BTW the device I was ordered is the Watch PAT ONE by itamar medical. I'm sure there's several similar things out there.

Pinkblossom- Yes my PCP ordered me a CPAP with auto titration today. There can also be some oral appliances but this was his rec. Wants to follow up in 4-6 weeks.

I'm cautiously very excited about all this..

FWIW I tried the Fitbit and discovered that I could not sleep with something on my wrist. Therefore I doubt I could sleep with anything attached to me. Something to think about before you spend money on anything that attaches to your body.

PB - That's it! Since my PCP ordered it my insurance is covering most of the cost here in the US.

trkane - yeah if you can't sleep with a smart watch this kit is definitely a bit more than that.. but it's also a lot less intrusive than a formal sleep study. And those are really your only options for diagnosing something like this. Insurance wouldn't cover a CPAP without it.

Garzie - In more severe cases I would definitely expect it to. My diagnosis as mentioned was with "no significant hypoxemic obstructions". So my o2 dropping isn't really a "significant issue". It's the Obstruction causing a higher heart rate to keep up o2 saturation and then the body lightly walking to fix obstruction - preventing one from deep continuous sleep. So many of my remaining symptoms overlap with descriptions of OSA, will be very interested to see how the next month goes. Feel like I'm waiting on a new toy with this cpap order lol