So I had my follow up visit with my sleep doctor today and got the breakdown (instead of trying to piece things together from gleaned informations) and it is as follows:
I do have extremely severe sleep apnea and by severe I mean:
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a. I stopped breathing 785 times during the sleep study (the highest he had ever seen was about 800)
b. I stopped breathing about 113x/hr
c. On average I stop breathing for 20 seconds (as I mentioned before, longest was 55secs)
d. During REM sleep my spO2 dropped to around 51% (didn’t dip, dropped and stayed till I came back out of REM)
A little clarification now that I have a better understanding. I stopped breathing 113x/hr, which averages out to about 2 episodes per minute. The average length of each episode was 20 seconds, so that means for every minute I slept, I was only breathing for 20 seconds, or I stopped breathing for 40 seconds every minute, and that my friends was sobering information.