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Fitness tracker sleep data - extremely low deep sleep.

Sleep Health | Last Active: Mar 1 3:01pm | Replies (42)
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@gloaming

IT is highly unlikely that you have Cheyne-Stokes. The graphic curves of your breathing, if you click in one spot where OSCAR says it has happened several times to expand the view, looks like C-S, but it's probably laboured, partly occluded, intake.

Once again, clusters of events, especially hypopnea and obstructive, are about 80% likely to be caused by chin tucking, or from some other positional artefact that makes breathing difficult. Sleeping on one's back, or tucking the chin with a firm pillow, but also on your back....these will make for a night in Hades. A properly fitted soft foam cervical collar will do wonders to prevent your chin from falling too far toward your sternum.

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rjjacobsen | @rjjacobsen | Jan 5 7:22pm

Thanks for the feedback.

I didn't think it was CS because it happens so rarely - only for short periods on only a couple of days and usually before I wake up.

Been using the soft cervical collar, lowered the pillow height to try to prevent this without much improvement. Sleeping on my side seems to make it worse.

Thinking of trying a better (stiffer) soft collar, trying not using a pillow at all and putting the pillow under my shoulders with my neck hanging some off the back side.

Just for completeness, my thyroid has stable nodules and tests out in the lower normal range. It does feel "tight" though.

Sleeping on my back is preferred from a pain perspective - left shoulder had arthritic spurs removed with a tendon repair and is still sore, the right has those spurs and is pending surgery.

Last, I take 7.5mg Remeron (a.k.a. mirtazapine) approximately 90 minutes before bed and 3mg Melatonin approximately 30 minutes before bedtime. Times were set via trial and error.

The Remeron helps me return to sleep after having to make a toilet run. I don't have a colon (removed due to cancer) so frequent and quick toilet runs are often necessary.

I might experiment with skipping the Remeron to see if it's still necessary.

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