Hi everyone,
Seven years ago I was diagnosed with sleep apnea having 14 per minute (high mild) but my 02 sat dipped well into 80’s a third of the night. Could not tolerate CPAP or mouth guard and then a bunch of life shite happened and just now addressing it again so following a Dr. Dylan Petkus on YouTube doing breathing and myofacial exercises and got an OURA ring as heard it is the most accurate for sleep. It shows an average of 10 or so dark blue lines a night, last night I had 14, that is defined as “few” but I can’t find anywhere what exactly that is - 1? 3? It doesn’t even give a range. If it’s 1 or 2, given it’s a period of 6.5 hours vs 1 hour, then I still fall within less than 5 per hour, but it’s not too useful unless I have a specific number. Do any of you have any info re this? My O2 sat was 96% last night along with the 14 and in the 6 weeks I’ve had it goes between 93 and 96% average which for age 72 seems ok. My sleep score is usually “optimal” but I read how they come to that and it doesn’t even include the sleep irregularities - why would that not be part of the score? I sleep on side with mouth taped as did notice on my study I had less when on side but still more than 5 per hour. With my ring I don’t see much difference with taping or not but I may have trained my mouth to stay more closed by now. Thanks for any info you might have.