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To: HKMk23

They gave me one of those monitor devices that measures your pulse and respiration while you sleep a while back and I used it for a week or so.

Nothing ever came of it. My wife says I snore like a freight train, though.................


33 posted on 04/09/2021 5:24:30 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

A simple pulse/oximeter would alarm if your blood oxygen level fell too low, but that’s like the idiot light that tells you your car has overheated: by the time it comes on, your engine is already too hot.

A more advanced unit keeps a record you can load up and see a continuous chart of blood oxygen throughout the night; that would reveal whatever dips there might be that weren’t severe enough to trigger the alarm.

For a definitive confirmation one way or the other, an in-clinic sleep study is the gold standard, and the heavy snoring is a caution flag. I’d seek a consultation, and see.

One other sidebar, my pulmonologist said my test results shocked her; that, out of a lineup of 100 people she’d have never picked me out as a possible apnea patient. And yet, I am, and a severe case, at that.


39 posted on 04/09/2021 8:40:09 AM PDT by HKMk23 (INADEQUACY: If this keeps up, we may not be able to let you help us anymore.)
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