[bckr]

sound like the OP has some thoughts.

But I am using the app SnoreLab which records me at night and scores what percent of the night I'm snoring and how loud (and lets me listen to it back).

The lowest tech way is to just record audio of yourself sleeping. If you snore, you've got it. If you stop breathing / choke / do a "snort snort snort"--you've really got it.

I urge you to set aside a few nights and get this figured out! It could be the most important decision you make for your health in your entire life.

[Tagbert]

Is snoring really an indicator of sleep apnea? I'm sure that those with apnea likely do snore, but I'm not convinced that everyone who snores has sleep apnea. That would indicate that almost everyone has apnea.

[schwartzworld]

Most people experience some degree of apnea. They don't diagnose you unless you have more than 5 events per hour.

Not everyone who snores has sleep apnea, but it is a HUGE symptom. Basically if you snore and have even ONE of the other symptoms, you should see a doctor. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/snoring/sympt...

However, apnea is very very common and very hereditary. If all the men in your family snore and wake up multiple times per night to pee and are tired all the time, as they are in my family, it's easy to think of those things as just a part of aging.

[bckr]

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/snoring/sympt...

"Snoring is often associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea... Not everyone who snores has OSA".

Snoring is really, really bad. A cute little "snooze" could be okay, but anything more than that should be considered a potential life-shortener and potential-limiter.

And yes, I am saying that almost everyone is in danger of apnea. I think this is one of the many ignored epidemics of our time, similar and related to obesity.

[foobarian]

That's it, I'm getting a PulsOx sensor and breaking out my Raspi and getting to the bottom of this! :-)

[heleninboodler]

If you find one that lets you extract the data directly, please post. The one I got just has this proprietary app that communicates with it via bluetooth, and I'd much rather have it in a proper time-series format and automate the data-pull.

Also, if you do end up getting a CPAP, those things have a fascinating amount of time-series data stored on their SD cards. If I recall mine logs about 20 independent datapoints, which is a surprising number for something that's just blowing air into your nose. :D But for example, it can detect when you're snoring and it logs a boolean for that all night long.

[foobarian]

The off-the-shelf devices look pretty appealing for not having to build the actual on-finger package from scratch. I'd bet the Bluetooth device would be easy to read from something other than an app so I'll give that a try.

[foobarian]

I came across this writeup by Thejesh GN that I hope to replicate. https://thejeshgn.com/2020/08/05/reverse-engineering-a-bluet...

(will submit to the queue too, I think this is cool).

[heleninboodler]

Neat. I think this device is fundamentally different from mine in that it appears to stream the events over bluetooth rather than storing them locally and then downloading the "session" over bluetooth. Make sure you don't get one like mine if you want to stream them.

[bckr]

Nice!!