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Thanks Sophie and also for your very considered reply Holden, it was the type of perspective and information that i was looking for. I do think its a little unfair to say i am in denial, i have been reading about the situation, making lifestyle changes and i've posted on this forum for advice. The sleep doctor commented that 'losing weight may be all that is required to treat my OSA'. It was also labelled as 'mild OSA' which suggested to me that some type of milder treatment approaches might work.

I am more than happy to trial a CPAP machine. I'll go to my doctor and discuss it with him in the next couple with days. I'll report back hopefully with some positive results for anyone interested. Thanks

**"John Doe's overnight diagnostic sleep study showed a fragmented sleep architecture with low sleep efficiency.

His sleep latency was long. Reduced REM sleep was observed and his sleep was predominantly observed in the supine position.

The sleep study shows mild obstructive sleep apnoea. This consisted of a Respiratory Disturbance Index (RDI) of 17/hr [normal < 5/hr]. The overall Apnoea Hypopnoea Index (AHI) was 17/hr. Obstructive apnoeas were seen in NREM and REM sleep.

Respiratory events were associated with mild oxygen desaturation to a nadir of 90% and the oxygen desaturation index was 17/hr." **

Thanks George, i am trying to be proactive about it. The information that i was reading was actually empirically based medical journals. There seem to be a number of studies where sleep experts do not recommend CPAP for everyone. The other studies i found seemed to indicate that positional therapy (with a backpack in one study) actually reduced peoples Apneas considerably. However if you have experience or have heard CPAP is a good idea i'm certianly willing to try it. It's just a bit of a cost right now and i'm not sure if it would help. Thanks about the weight information that is good to know, i was skeptical that it would make a difference.

Here are my oxygen statistics

OXYGEN STATISTICS: Baseline Awake SpO2: 96 % Average NREM SpO2: 94 % Average REM SpO2: 94 % Average O2 desaturation Sleep: 3 % Nadir SpO2: 90 %

Saturation < 90% 0 mins 0 % Saturation < 80% 0 mins 0 % Saturation < 70% 0 mins 0 %

So i'd imagine those while not ideal aren't as bad as many? At no point did i go below 90% which seems ok?

Thanks Sleeptech, I think its more a question of how to treat it? I read that CPAP is not a good idea for mild sleep apnea, and mine is at the high end of mild i guess. I tried sleeping on my side with a backpack filled up last night. It actually wasn't that uncomfortable but i woke up about 5 times throughout the night which was unpleasant.

Hi All,

So cliff notes - 35yo male had a sleep study that revealed i had AHI 16.8/Hour, RHI 17.6/Hour (Supine) so 81 hypopnoea and 2 Apnoea's.

I have longstanding anxiety and depression (but working on it and to be honest almost fixed it now). I'm often quite tired when i get home from work (E'g lying on my bed). Low libido is an annoying problem i cant figure out. Tiredness / LL could be due to mental health.. I often wake up with one nostril pretty clogged up.

Should i seek treatment, or is this really not likely to be affecting me at all? The women who rang me up to report my sleep study sounded quite disinterested and my mum thinks i should just not do anything about it.

I've tried sleeping on my side, which actually might make me feel a little better but it could be placebo. I think i'll focus more on positional therapy as that apparently helps.

The report suggested losing weight (im 92kg 5f7). The problem is I lift quite heavy and the gym and i'm pretty solid so i'm not that interested in dropping too much weight, although i could get down to 85kg i guess.

So i'd love your opinion, i'm a bit of a hypochondriac so i don't trust myself :)

Thanks