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Taking another sleep test tonight


Posted by Cue Miller on January 10, 2001 at 12:28:53:

After 2 1/2 years on CPAP with spectacular success, I'm off tonight for my first follow-up sleep test. This is just to make sure that my CPAP is correctly titrated, to find out if my sleep architecture seems generally OK now, etc. Nothing is wrong that I can tell. I am now at a pressure of 8 using a regular CPAP and a Breeze mask. I use a F&P heated humidifier.

I've taken two tests at this place before, so I know just what to expect. It is quite comfortable, even with all the wires. But I must say my attitude this time is so much better than 2 1/2 years ago when I was nervous and anxious, and more than a little depressed about what they were going to find.

Fifteen years ago I took a sleep test in a different hospital that was like being a lab rat. Uncomfortable bed. Hot and sweaty -- no air conditioning in the room in the dead of summer. No explanation of what was happening. Non-English speaking staff. All very disturbing and strange. Then they said I had OSA but very mild and to live with it. Years later it got worse. The doctor told me that CPAP use was pretty awful and compliance was low. He said he did surgery for OSA but didn't recommend it in my case, and that even the surgery often didn't work.

Times have changed in some ways and not in other ways, of course. I'm one of the successes with CPAP and grateful for it. I feel better than I have in many years, all because of good sleep.

Unfortunately, nobody in the sleep lab office today knew if I should be bringing my own mask or not, and although I told them I needed a humidifier I'm not sure this is going to happen. So I am bringing my own just in case.

I'll let you all know how it goes.

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