Posted: 4/25/2012 8:29:27 AM EDT
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Let's wire you up and put all these probes on you then expect you to sleep.
In a strange bed around people I don't trust. Unarmed, and with the door unlocked. Then let's come in 2-3 times to check the wiring and to tell you to not bend your finger with the probe on it (Wouldn't it be easier to split it so it wont bend) Now lets have you sleep in clothes when you normally don't, and have the room to warm with little air movement. Sweet Dreams Few Hrs Later....... My your sleep is sporadic 
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Not only that, you get to pay $6k for the privilege!  (My insurance covered 90% of it.)
The hardest part for me was sleeping with the wires on me. They put me in a small dorm-type room with a IR camera trained on me. I could control the air conditioner so that wasn't an issue. |
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Let's wire you up and put all these probes on you then expect you to sleep. In a strange bed around people I don't trust. Unarmed, and with the door unlocked. Then let's come in 2-3 times to check the wiring and to tell you to not bend your finger with the probe on it (Wouldn't it be easier to split it so it wont bend) Now lets have you sleep in clothes when you normally don't, and have the room to warm with little air movement. Sweet Dreams Few Hrs Later....... My your sleep is sporadic
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Did mine in a hotel. My company contracted some sleep clinic and had them setup around the corner. They were doing 4 of us a night. Woke me up about 5 times to tell me wires fell of and whatever else. Oh and you can't sleep on your stomach. Finally woke me up about 5am and said I was good to go and that I didn't have sleep apnea.
Oh and they're not at all amused if you ask them "are yall gonna watch me on the camera as I rub one out before I go to sleep?" 
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Having had numerous sleep studies done...just be thankful they weren't testing for cataplexy. Start with a regular sleep study. Then, when that's done, sit in that same damned room all the next day, taking naps every 2 hours. 24 hours later, when they tell you you don't have narcolepsy, try to keep your sense of humor.
Just to clarify...most people that have cataplexy also have narcolepsy, and there's no way to test for cataplexy, so they test you for narcolepsy. This was explained to me AFTER the fact. |
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They gave up at 4:00AM and told me I could go home.
I don't remember sleeping a single wink. They caught about 15 minutes of sleep around midnight. Then they put the mask on me, with absolutley no prior introduction or information regarding a CPAP. I KNOW I didn't sleep after that! They got no REM sleep info. They told me I was having around 90 episodes an hour, based on what info they could collect. The initial post is a perfect discription of how my night went. You would think they would figure out a way to do it better. The biggest bitch I have about it is the fact that nobody thought it might be good to familiarize me with the CPAP before the sleep study. In case they want to jump right to the next step...seeing how you sleep with the mask on. Nope, just come into the room, slap on a mask that doesn't fit, and expect you to go to sleep with air blowing in your eyes and the damn machine turned up so high I couldn't exhale. (Did you sleep? Yes you did. 90 episodes. Try this on.) Oh, about the "chill pill" so you can sleep. I wouldn't do that unless you take meds to sleep at night. You get too relaxed, and it may earn you a machine whether you need it or not. |
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They gave up at 4:00AM and told me I could go home. I don't remember sleeping a single wink. They caught about 15 minutes of sleep around midnight. Then they put the mask on me, with absolutley no prior introduction or information regarding a CPAP. I KNOW I didn't sleep after that! They got no REM sleep info. They told me I was having around 90 episodes an hour, based on what info they could collect. The initial post is a perfect discription of how my night went. You would think they would figure out a way to do it better. The biggest bitch I have about it is the fact that nobody thought it might be good to familiarize me with the CPAP before the sleep study. In case they want to jump right to the next step...seeing how you sleep with the mask on. Nope, just come into the room, slap on a mask that doesn't fit, and expect you to go to sleep with air blowing in your eyes and the damn machine turned up so high I couldn't exhale. (Did you sleep? Yes you did. 90 episodes. Try this on.) Oh, about the "chill pill" so you can sleep. I wouldn't do that unless you take meds to sleep at night. You get too relaxed, and it may earn you a machine whether you need it or not. They sent me home early as well. |
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I went thru the same study. Mine was done in the hospital and the room was set up like a hotel room. Color tv, king bed, slept in my own clothes, a nice shower. pretty cool set-up.
results of the test was that I had stopped breathing 178 times in an hour. Not good results. Heart doctor said the average was 18 and hour. Blamed my heart attack on snoring because the stress was on the left side of the ol ticker. Now I can not fall asleep unless I have the mask on but still only sleep 3.5 hours aday.
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They cranked the nasal mask down so tight that I kept waking up due to the discomfort. The tech would not let me adjust it. Tech didn't know wtf they were doing. The straps should be on just tight enough to keep the thing from falling off your head, the air pressure should make the silicone seal of the mask form the seal with your face, not pressure from the straps. You should not have had any air blowing in your face at all. Make sure you complain about it, you paid a lot of money to have that study done, it should have been done right. Sorry for your bas experience...don't give up on the medicine/science because of it. It can change your life for the better. |