My theory: Bad diagnosis? M21
Hello everyone, i had all the symptoms as everyone else and decided to do a watch pat, my ahi ended up being 1.8 but it did not score RDI. After demanding, i got an in person lab study, never saw the results but they told me i had an ahi of 19.4 and have moderate sleep apnea. I got put on cpap and have used it for 3 months, no improvement on my symptoms at all. I finally got them to send me the results, and it showed an AHI of 19.4 and an RDI of 19.4 which is very unlikely to happen. And an AHI of 1.8 to 19.4 seems to be way too much of a jump considering watch pats are supposed to be for the most part very accurate. I feel like the lab conflated the two and scored the AHI as the same as my RDI, when the true AHI was closer to that 1.8 from the watchpat. Some more info (entire night of 3hr test) : Obstruction Apneas = 0, hypopneas = 64, central = 12. This leads me to think I was misdiagnosed as sleep apnea rather than UARS, I am 21 years old and somewhat fit, cpap has been no benefit. And I have enlarged tonsils, and recently did a turbinate reduction which helped.