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Re: Sleep Study failure

Posted by Cyd on August 06, 2001 at 18:50:53:

In Reply to: Sleep Study failure posted by Robert on August 04, 2001 at 13:20:16:

Your experience sounds very similar to my first sleep study. I slept a little over 2 hours (my description was that I was asleep but that I could see and hear everything going on around me) and kept begging the tech to let me go home! I knew he hadn't seen any apnea, because he had told me at the beginning of the test that if he did they would put me on cpap that night. I thought the same thing you did - I'm still not sleeping and apnea isn't why. Well, I was wrong.

My Dr. called with the report from the neurologist (who read the study) a few weeks later and told me that I was waking up something like 50 times an hour and I stopped breathing a lot. The result was that I wasn't getting any deep sleep. Once they put me on cpap, it took 3 or 4 different masks, in a couple of different sizes, 2 different cpap machines (the first one whistled), a heated humidifier and god only knows how many times my poor RT guy had to stop by to adjust or change something for me. Finally, after about 3 or 4 months of tinkering around and adjusting things, it all started to come together.

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