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Sleep Study Tonight! Who's ever had one? (Try to limit the OT's 'cause I'm nervous!)
April 9, 2008 at
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So I'm getting a sleep study done tonight. I'm nervous about it. I have to be at the center at 9:00 pm. I can just picture myself lying there, hooked up to machines, flat on my back while scientists in white coats peer at me and say "Sleep, damn you! SLEEP!!" I will never sleep tonight 
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Nighty night
You're such an AZZ!
Actually, I have some health issues. Too numerous to get into, but part of it is, I have migraines and seizures. I had to quit my job recently because the seizures have gotten worse
EDIT: It took me forever to type my reply, and I missed all of your responses!!
You're such an AZZ!
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You're such an AZZ!
At my last appointment with my Dr. she suggested she might want me to go in for a sleep study too...I'm not entirely sure how it all works but I've known a few people who have had one done (including my dad, to test for sleep apnea) and they all said it wasn't nearly as bad as they were picturing.
I hope they find out some helpful results for you and that you get to sleep easily
So I laid there and rubbed one out. Slept like a baby after that. They said I had shallow breathing, elevated pulse and restless leg syndrome for the first 20 minutes of the study,
Poor PG.
Show up at office at 10:30PM
Sit in chair while they stick electrodes all over me and fit me for a CPAP mask.
Get led to one of the "bedrooms" in the office.
Get in bed and let them hook up the CPAP, Pulse/O2 monitor, electrode machine, and then they leave the room.
I lie there and pretend to sleep for about an hour, then sneak into the hot chicks "bedroom" next door....
Ok, not really.
I fall asleep within an hour.
They come in and wake me about 4 times during the night to adjust things that have fallen off or come unplugged.
They play with the air pressure on the CPAP remotely to try to stop apnea while I'm sleeping.
I wake up in the morning, get dressed, brush my teeth and go to work as usual.
Pretty basic.
Only problem I had was the pulse/O2 sensor on my finger was WAY too tight and hurt like hell and made it hard to sleep.
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