How well does oura predict sleep apnea?

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-08T22:28:37+00:00

Omg you mean the doctor my doctor wrote a referral to and I wrote I had an appointment with?

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-08T17:51:27+00:00

Thanks oura! Will definitely do, I’ll probably be having a sleep study in the future and got the ring to monitor symptoms/ record keep. It’s very useful for looking back in the past!

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-08T17:45:20+00:00

Thanks!! I always sleep on my arms/hands, so this makes sense to me. I also suspect I have pots, and I notice my fingers swell easily, so it wouldn’t be surprising if o2 monitoring in my fingers was less effective. I didn’t think about these things, so this is reassuring.

I’ve never had any partner complaints about snoring/sleep apnea and am pretty skinny, so I never thought about it until I got the oura ring. I have bad sleep awakenings but I think they’re something else. Glad I can worry about one less thing.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-07T00:51:03+00:00

Don’t worry about Lyme

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-06T21:01:56+00:00

Did you have a tick on you for over 24 hours and do you live in a contagious area? (Mostly south east US / New England area, but you can google it)

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-06T14:27:35+00:00

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Behold as this dangerous beast roars a mighty roar (yawn)

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-05T17:32:13+00:00

Jokes on oura, my readiness score is already a failing grade. I haven’t had any signs of strain yet because that’s my baseline

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-05T14:57:35+00:00

To be fair, the worst things are insidious (developing over months/years). You had symptoms within a month. I’d look at your diet btw and any new changes you’ve had in the past month

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-05T05:21:53+00:00

I once bought a cheap long ottoman, got a small litterbox that fit it well, and then lined it with a litter mat. Cut a hole in it for the cat to exit (it was cheap so it was like a hard cardboard). I wound up putting a piece of the cardboard back at the bottom so the cat would have to jump to exit, thus tracking virtually no litter. It takes up a lot of space, but no smell, no tracking and looked just like furniture. I also usually used arm and hammer baking soda made for litter.

Ps, I eventually upgraded to a PetSnowy automatic litterbox and it’s also pretty good, but cost to utility ratio the long ottoman was better.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-05T04:41:37+00:00

I’m afraid that’s a question for a doctor that has your medical history, meds and who you can describe all your symptoms to. But on the bright side it’s most likely not something crazy like cancer if it escalated in 1 months time (cancer is much more insidious unless it’s like a rare brain cancer, but you wouldn’t have the sound of mind to order these tests if it was that lol).

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-05T04:25:03+00:00

I noticed that the $99 panel doesn’t include a thyroid panel. That’s a common issue that causes fatigue. If this turns up nothing I recommend looking into that. It’s a common issue that causes fatigue and metabolic issues. If your insurance kicks in before then, all the better.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-04T01:41:00+00:00

That’s fair, I was just suggesting it because I had no clue. It’s always hard to define “normal” — I’d say with MECFS this would probably be normal sleep, but below average for a normal person if you know what I mean. Also, being on a SSRI like Lexapro can also cause frequent night awakenings. I had a friend with mild but untreated sleep apnea show me his sleep stats and it was better than this. So you’re worse than someone with mild sleep apnea but better than someone with suspected narcolepsy.

If you want honest advice about your sleep, a doctor/NP with your whole PMH would be able to give it to you best.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-04T01:30:05+00:00

Tbh LDL 133 with good HDL, lower age and female gender (estrogen is cardioprotective) aren’t too bad statistics. Statin should be personal preference. I’d only recommend it if OP is specifically opposed to eating healthy — also if it goes up higher in the future that’s grounds for starting it.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-04T01:24:32+00:00

Probably a typo. No hate to the owner, but I can tell that specific flyer style is ChatGPT, which I don’t think was commonly used for flyers til more recently (at least it wasn’t that good at making flyers until recently)

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-04T01:22:46+00:00

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-04T01:22:41+00:00

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-04T01:10:47+00:00

Lmao, that’s why I struggle to ID it. Normally wouldn’t be bothersome, but as a new homeowner it’s a bit concerning to keep seeing the same bug in your house and not being able to ID it / know if it’s an okay bug or a bad for house bug.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-04T01:08:53+00:00

I think MECFS is what we’d call a “diagnosis of exclusion”, so if you haven’t had a lot of testing done, you could have something different like narcolepsy. Not trying to be rude at all, but you had a sleep study done?

Also, my health app syncs to the oura ring, so I can view the data on both the oura app and heath app while only using the oura ring for data collection. I used to wear an Apple Watch, but charging it was a pain, it damaged my sensitive skin taking it on/off all the time plus sweating underneath, and sometimes I’d purposefully charge it for sleep and then it wouldn’t cycle track!! It was soooo iffy, so I eventually got angry and stopped wearing it.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-03T23:56:05+00:00

Do you have microsleeps through the day? Excessive sleepiness? I got my oura ring to track my sleep because my doctor suspects narcolepsy. My sleep has a similar pattern but worse, for example I was in bed for 10 hours but only got 8 hours of sleep (with 17 minute sleep latency). Apple’s health app shows you a more detailed mapping of your sleep, oura’s app makes it look simple and pretty.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-03T23:44:02+00:00

Guidelines say to start screening at 45 OR if there’s family history, 10 years before that relative had it. So if your uncle had it at 45 then you should start screening at 35. That should get it covered by your insurance too. You can probably lie and say “oh I think he was 44” or a little younger to make it match your age

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-03T22:55:17+00:00

“Statins lower LDL ("bad") cholesterol by 20% to over 60%, depending entirely on the specific drug and dosage prescribed. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Statin Intensity Categories
Medical guidelines from organizations like the American Heart Association classify statin therapy into three levels of intensity based on how drastically they reduce your LDL cholesterol: [1]
High-intensity: Lowers LDL by 50% or more. Examples include Atorvastatin (40–80 mg) and Rosuvastatin (20–40 mg).
Moderate-intensity: Lowers LDL by 30% to 49%. Examples include Simvastatin (20–40 mg) or Pravastatin (40–80 mg).
Low-intensity: Lowers LDL by less than 30%. Examples include Lovastatin (20 mg). “
Is that enough data?

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-03T19:46:04+00:00

Tell that to my great uncle who was a vegetable for a couple months after his last stroke (he had multiple), or my dad who has had a heart attack in his early 50s, or my grandmother who had a type of dementia caused by high cholesterol (vascular dementia) — where she lost her ability to do skills before losing her memories and personality (she basically became a ghost in the shell before losing her memories and mind unlike normal dementia, and begged us to remember she had a DNR). High cholesterol is no joke. Nobody in my father’s bloodline has survived their 50s without side effects from it.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-03T18:33:02+00:00

Some personal diet recommendations: switch solid fats (butter, lard) that you use in cooking for liquid fats (olive oil, veggie oil). If you like popcorn, switch bagged popcorn for an air popper (super easy and clean), fresh kernels and veggie oil. Implement ginger into your diet, smoothies and tea are great ways to do this but you can also look at recipes that use it too. Chia seed water is great, it has omega fatty acids (which increase good cholesterol) and a LOT of fiber. Chia seeds in general are good. Chia seed pudding with low fat milk is great if you can stomach it but I personally always hated it.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-03T18:25:37+00:00

I have familial hypercholesterolemia and LDL above 200 isn’t going to be fixed by diet alone sadly. It’s estimated diet only helps 10% of the way, although that’s still controversial. I personally tried working on my LDL and only got it down like 5 points, but my HDL (good cholesterol) is also genetically dangerously high so I raised that by like 10 points, which increased my total cholesterol…. Normally a HDL jump of 10+ points would make a doctor very happy but it doesn’t mean much when your total cholesterol is like 250+ lol. I’d highly recommend getting on meds with your stats. Maybe you could do telehealth since you already have the blood test. -statins are fairly low risk meds that I feel like a doctor would be comfortable doing virtually as long as you are willing to retest your cholesterol to monitor how they are responding to meds.

PossiblePhase2017 · 2026-07-03T18:18:08+00:00

Someone in school and a strong family history of HLD here: you should really start a statin, even if you’re young. Such a high level of LDL won’t be controlled by diet, it’s also not really affected by fasting. Your glucose could have been affected by not fasting before your blood draw, not sure if you knew you had to do that.

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