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Re: I beg your pardon...

Posted by Frank on February 09, 2002 at 08:07:41:

In Reply to: Re: I beg your pardon... posted by GottaSleepinMD on February 09, 2002 at 01:12:24:

RE: successful test, I was referring to the results being there, not what they concluded.

RE: "more than I thought". The reason you say "more than I thought" is that you actually were sleeping even though you would swear on a stack of bibles that you weren't. It is stage one sleep and the reason that there are auto crashes. You think that the road is still going straight, but you are actually asleep and the road turns, but you still go where you think the road goes so you crash. If you survive, you will not understand how it happened. You will not remember anything from the time you saw the road going straight until you wake up. You cannot control the onset of this sleep. This is why this malady is such a public menace. It is made worse because there are so many who are undiagnosed.

From the other posts, it is clear that you have a delayed circadian rythem. The bright light therapy is very effective but might not happen in time for your next study. But you can have a daytime study. You are the customer, and they can arrange their schedule to accomodate you. This would not be an issue for a real sleep doc or lab.

About the ambien, get a second opinion. Your doc's pronouncement on this issue causes me concern about his abilities and understanding of sleep disorders.

RE: exoneration. Perhaps not, but so what. I think that your post was colored by your sleep state. Even though your impressions were real, the facts may very well have been different. In this case, there was no road to run off, and the only thing that counts is that you now get properly titrated.

BTW, I have been through 6 of these miserable tests in the last 2 years, one in the daytime. I consider everyone to be the worst nights sleep I have had. Except for the nights in a rice paddy, it is all relative.

RE: My original post on this subject. The great difficulty with the written word is that it lacks tone, body language and facial expression. So when written and read through the fog of apnea, it does not always convey what is meant, and can be easily misinterpreted. I saw what I saw and said what I said because I believed it and thought it would help.

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