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Posted by admaster99 on April 10, 2011 at 19:07:25:

Hi all I'm new here and had some questions I was wondering if you could help me with?

I have had chronic fatigue for some odd years now and I always thought they where attributed to my gastro problems. But just recently I had a sleep study cause my mom was concerned, due to when I went to my aunts I slept from 10 am to noon the next day. I'm extremely tired all the time and I sleep a lot. (Like all day and night, though its hard for me to fall asleep at night.)

Well after the sleep study the lady who did it said the results where defiantly abnormal. And my regular physician said it was abnormal. But I saw the specialist today and said there was no cause for alarm and there was nothing abnormal. He just said that I need to adjust my sleeping schedule and make it more regular. Which I don't understand cause I'm always really tired.

Summary of test results:
Essentially is says that the total recording time was 6 hours and 51 minutes, the total sleeping time was 6 hours and 17 minutes. Though I felt like it took me hours to fall asleep. The sleep efficiency was 97% of sleep period time. During which the patient spent 2% in stage wake, 4% in stage N1, 63% in stage N2, 22% in stage N3, and 9% in stage REM. There was a total of 3 apneas which where all central type, and 15 hypopneas yielding an apnea/hypopnea index of less then 3 an hour. With lowest oxyhemoglobin saturation of 78%. The heart beat average was 67 per minute. On average 4 arousal's per hour.

Also I want to add that I did stay up the complete night before this nite because I did not think I was going to be able to fall asleep. So I was essentially was up for 2 days before this sleep study could this have hinder the test. Please help are these readings normal? Help! I'm tired of being tired.

Also I looked at the symptoms of sleep apnea and I matched like 9 out of 10.

One last thing, I also mentioned that several years ago I had my tonsils removed and it made a huge difference like I felt like a new person with all kinds of energy and I also slept a lot better and why that was? And he said I probably had obstructive sleep apnea then but I treated it. And I was like well why did I get worse again and he didn't have an answer for me. He just played around it any said he thought I needed to adjust me sleeping schedule.

Sorry that my post is so long I just am tired of being tired, has been this way for years!

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