Oxygen levels drop at night: Any advice? Where to go next?

Posted by knoles78 @knoles78, Oct 22 12:29pm

Any help please. Or advice.

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What is this about? I'm hesitant to just click on a link like this with no context. It might be best to copy from your PDF into a comment.

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Here's a photo.

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@knoles78 What kind of test was it? It doesn't look familiar to me.

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@knoles78 What kind of test was it? It doesn't look familiar to me.

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@aard its a ring I wear at night to monitor 02 and heart rate it links to my phone.

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@aard its a ring I wear at night to monitor 02 and heart rate it links to my phone.

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@knoles78 Okay, I have no idea. Hopefully someone else can weigh in to help.
All the best!

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@knoles78 Okay, I have no idea. Hopefully someone else can weigh in to help.
All the best!

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@aard I can see frequent drops in O2 Saturation which is most often a clear sign of obstructive or central sleep apnea. Do you awaken on your back often? Try to sleep more on your side. Wearing a pillow at your back, some put a tennis ball there in the small of your back, prevents you from rolling onto your back (supine). But you may actually need a proper sleep study to determine if you would have vastly improved sleep using a CPAP machine.

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Thanks. Im so over this

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@gloaming has the right idea.

I had a sleep study with results so bad the doctor was outright horrified. I got a CPAP machine and it saved my life. That was 27 years ago.

By all means, get a sleep study done. You may not know what you're missing.

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I did get a sleep study done 2 weeks ago. But that one night I didnt have enough episodes per hour. It was a at home test. So now im trying to get a in clinic one

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@gloaming has the right idea.

I had a sleep study with results so bad the doctor was outright horrified. I got a CPAP machine and it saved my life. That was 27 years ago.

By all means, get a sleep study done. You may not know what you're missing.

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@scottrl I also have a sleep dr appt instead of just a test. An actually specialist. Im praying for relief.

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