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Question, why do some, not all, with OSA continue to wear a mask after successful ablations? Is there a fear that they will go out of NSR or are there other issues with OSA not related to Afib? I realize there are other issues, but was the mask script due to a diagnosis that OSA caused afib?
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I bought an O2 sensor (this ), and wore it nightly. It's been about two months now. Occasionally I found my SPO2 would drop to as low as 80% during sleeping. Most of time dropped to about 88%. But interestingly, even when I lay in bed awake, the SPO2 could drop to 92% and trigger the vibration alert. Then I could normally do a few deep breaths to bring up the SPO2 level. If I wear it for couple hours awake and sit around the room, the SPO2 level could be up and down between 92% ~ 98%.
Thought it was misreading. So I had my wife wear it for two nights, the results came out very steady, purely 97% ~ 98%. I'm going to have an in lab sleep study and I'll bring up those results beforehand.
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What Carey says.
80% is waaay low. Do all of your AF episodes occur at night??
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I bought an O2 sensor (this ), and wore it nightly. It's been about two months now. Occasionally I found my SPO2 would drop to as low as 80% during sleeping. Most of time dropped to about 88%. But interestingly, even when I lay in bed awake, the SPO2 could drop to 92% and trigger the vibration alert. Then I could normally do a few deep breaths to bring up the SPO2 level. If I wear it for couple hours awake and sit around the room, the SPO2 level could be up and down between 92% ~ 98%.
Thought it was misreading. So I had my wife wear it for two nights, the results came out very steady, purely 97% ~ 98%. I'm going to have an in lab sleep study and I'll bring up those results beforehand.
I wonder if we afibbers, when we're awake, are not used to hold our breath from time to time just to hear how our heart is beating... Can this have an incidence on our SPO2 ?
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I tested holding my breath for one and half minutes until I felt really really uncomfortable but the SPO2 would only drop to 94%. Now I know how severe 80% is.
And now you know the likely cause of your afib as well.
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But the two nights I got afib while wearing the O2 sensor, it doesn't how a very low SPO2 level before the onset. Both nights were only down to about 88%. But the other days when SPO2 were even lower I didn't have an episode. May there be coincident?
Looking back, I might have the sleep apnea for more than a decade. I've been feeling very tired throughout the day for so many years that I've got used to it. I had to drink couple 'wake up coffee' each day when I entered my office to clear out my cloudy head, then in the afternoon I had to drink another cup of coffee to push through away the tiredness. Now after afib, I reallize I've been pushing the body too much for so many years and the apnea had never been treated. Hopefully treating sleep apnea can eliminate or at least put afib away for a long time.
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I tested holding my breath for one and half minutes until I felt really really uncomfortable but the SPO2 would only drop to 94%. Now I know how severe 80% is. That might not be even tolerable while awake.
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