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I stop breathing while falling asleep.
Sleep Health | Last Active: Jun 10 11:39am | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
I was having a horrible time sleeping at night and they sent me home with an "at home" test that I did in Phoenix at a friends house, it showed mild sleep apnea. They put me on a CPAP machine. I went through 1 year of being on a regular sleep pap machine with no resolution. I finally went to another doctor who put me through a formal study, also in Phoenix. This allowed for us to change the settings. However, I was having larger Central Sleep Apnea events, they decided to try me on 3 liters of oxygen while I am sleeping. This has allowed me to sleep better. It appears that I have High Altitude Sleep Apnea and/or Complex Sleep Apnea.
The only way to get put on an ASV machine would be to do a sleep study at altitude.
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Has anyone experienced doing deep breathing while falling asleep and when you fall asleep you wake up gasping for air? This only happens if I do deep breathing while falling asleep. I keep assuming that maybe my body isn’t used to getting so much oxygen so when it does it triggers to not breathe because it just got so much? Idk, I tried searching online everywhere and don’t see anything on this situation. It scares me