I Have Sleep Apnea
I found out I had sleep apnea a couple years ago, I also found out I sleep like someone suffering from PTSD and also my dream/sleep mode cycle is reversed likely do to the PTSD. You can learn a lot about yourself during a sleep study. However thanks to how I sleep I would wake within 20 minutes throughout the night and getting an acurate scoring on my apnea episodes proved difficult. I was averaging 17 episodes per 20 minutes and my oxygen level would drop down in the 70s occasionally but would mostly dip to around 84. Medical definition would label me moderate but the doctor insisted it was severe and wrote a RX for a CPAP machine.
I will tell you this. I hated sleep study the first time. If you never been to one I wouldn't recommend unless it is medically necessary. They hook you to a bunch of wirers but no that's not the worst part. The worst part is they have this gel that is more like glue they fill your hair with. Thank God for Dawn dish soap to get it out. And when you test positive they make you go back a second time to accurately set your CPAP settings. So I have done this twice. Sure it was a few years a go but you get the idea.
Now they have this chip you drop off to your Dr. periodically and your Dr then determines if your settings are still good. Now I suffer severe insomnia since I was a child but when it's almost drop off time I am on my best behavior to give my Dr the most accurate reading to prevent another sleep study but they called and said my settings need adjusted and made an appointment to discuss them with the Dr. I am hoping that does not mean I have to go back for an actual study.
I will say this I have mostly been at recommended weight for height however I was about 25 pounds over weight at my heaviest and likely still 15 to 20 pounds overweight when I had the first study so not sure how much the extra pounds contributed to my results. I also don't know if the adjustment needs upped or downed they didn't say. I do know I don't want to have another study done. I don't have the time or want and between us I only use that machine when I know I have to.
I will tell you this. I hated sleep study the first time. If you never been to one I wouldn't recommend unless it is medically necessary. They hook you to a bunch of wirers but no that's not the worst part. The worst part is they have this gel that is more like glue they fill your hair with. Thank God for Dawn dish soap to get it out. And when you test positive they make you go back a second time to accurately set your CPAP settings. So I have done this twice. Sure it was a few years a go but you get the idea.
Now they have this chip you drop off to your Dr. periodically and your Dr then determines if your settings are still good. Now I suffer severe insomnia since I was a child but when it's almost drop off time I am on my best behavior to give my Dr the most accurate reading to prevent another sleep study but they called and said my settings need adjusted and made an appointment to discuss them with the Dr. I am hoping that does not mean I have to go back for an actual study.
I will say this I have mostly been at recommended weight for height however I was about 25 pounds over weight at my heaviest and likely still 15 to 20 pounds overweight when I had the first study so not sure how much the extra pounds contributed to my results. I also don't know if the adjustment needs upped or downed they didn't say. I do know I don't want to have another study done. I don't have the time or want and between us I only use that machine when I know I have to.
