Had first sleep study.
Question:
Aaron, I have congestion from allergies, I find the nasal sprays work best if you uses them right before getting into bed. I also had a problem using the Flonase every night. It gave me nose bleeds, so they switched me to Nasonex. If the Flonase gives you problems, be sure to ask them to switch you to one for the other sprays. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Aaron Pawlyk wrote: > OK, this is a bit long and very much an over tired core dump of > my sleep study experience. Please feel free to read or ignore, > just no comments on grammar or spelling! :) > Man, what a horrible experience! I tried to sleep for about 2 1/2 > hours. Major insomnia. And my insomnia is not related, directly, > to OSA. I’m not waking myself up and thinking I haven’t gone to > sleep, I just don’t call asleep. They gave me some pill to get to > sleep. Relaxed and went to sleep. > Woke me up later and put the Mirage nasal mask on me that they had > found to fit earlier. Went back to sleep. Woke up a few times > (awakenings where I know I am awake anyways, don’t have those at > home) mostly from being tangled all over. Finally woke up around > 7:30 AM from activity in the sleep lab. > How did I feel? Weird. Also, I felt clear headed and, woah, my > heart was not pounding and I didn’t feel like I had to sit there > and breathe for a few minutes before doing anything. Was still > REALLY tired. I seemed to tolerate the MASK ok. It actually > didn’t bother me that much. The damn tangled wires tho…. > Results? Well, I definetly have OSA. They’ll have the exact numbers > when I meet with the doc in a month, but he said it’s around 50 > apnea events per hour (moderate according to him). And it took > 8 cm H2O preasure for nasal CPAP to keep me breathing fine (he said > that’s low pressure). Said the CPAP worked great, I got REM sleep > and slept deeply. So he prescribed one for me. Have to contact > the medical supply place Monday and check into insurance and all > that. > Forgot to ask what blood 02 was. > Also have me a prescription for Flonase for any allergy or CPAP > related congestion. And some ambien (5 mg) for if I have trouble > falling asleep when I first start using the CPAP. We also > talked getting into a RIGID sleep wake schedule to get my body’s > clock back to normal. I’ve tried this several times before, but > let’s hope the CPAP helps with that. I’m sure getting a good > night’s sleep will help. > Wow. That was kind of long. If anyone has any advice, please > feel free to give it! > Thanks to everyone here for being so supportive! > — > Aaron C. Pawlyk > Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics > Texas A&M University > "For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for > the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; > and for him without concentration there is no peace. > And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?" > – Bhagavad Gita
Response:
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:07:51 -0600, Aaron Pawlyk <paw…@tamu.edu> wrote: >I seemed to tolerate the MASK ok. It actually >didn’t bother me that much. The damn tangled wires tho….
All those dreadful wires! It seemed for me that I tolerated them a lot better on the second go-round (I had a study and a separate titration instead of a split-night like you had). As to wearing the mask…. I wear glasses during the day (although I seem to not want to wear them when I’m doing close work because I only have distance vision troubles), and I wear a CPAP at night. So there’s ALWAYS something perched on my nose. <wink> >And it took 8 cm H2O preasure
I don’t know if I’m iron-nosed, but I’ve always (or almost always) found my 15 cm to feel like "a good fresh breath of air." My sister-in-law, OTOH, thinks 6 cm is sleeping in a hurricane. The last I heard was she was trying to work up to 12 cm.
Response:
Sounds to me like you had a pretty normal experience, Aaron. Better than average, actually. On my first sleep test I slept under an hour the whole night. Just remember that the sleep test is not supposed to be a vacation. You’ll be posting soon about how good you feel using your CPAP. On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:07:51 -0600, Aaron Pawlyk <paw…@tamu.edu> wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> | > | OK, this is a bit long and very much an over tired core dump of > | my sleep study experience. Please feel free to read or ignore, > | just no comments on grammar or spelling! :) > | > | Man, what a horrible experience! I tried to sleep for about 2 1/2 > | hours. Major insomnia. And my insomnia is not related, directly, > | to OSA. I’m not waking myself up and thinking I haven’t gone to > | sleep, I just don’t call asleep. They gave me some pill to get to > | sleep. Relaxed and went to sleep. > | > | Woke me up later and put the Mirage nasal mask on me that they had > | found to fit earlier. Went back to sleep. Woke up a few times > | (awakenings where I know I am awake anyways, don’t have those at > | home) mostly from being tangled all over. Finally woke up around > | 7:30 AM from activity in the sleep lab. > | > | How did I feel? Weird. Also, I felt clear headed and, woah, my > | heart was not pounding and I didn’t feel like I had to sit there > | and breathe for a few minutes before doing anything. Was still > | REALLY tired. I seemed to tolerate the MASK ok. It actually > | didn’t bother me that much. The damn tangled wires tho…. > | > | Results? Well, I definetly have OSA. They’ll have the exact numbers > | when I meet with the doc in a month, but he said it’s around 50 > | apnea events per hour (moderate according to him). And it took > | 8 cm H2O preasure for nasal CPAP to keep me breathing fine (he said > | that’s low pressure). Said the CPAP worked great, I got REM sleep > | and slept deeply. So he prescribed one for me. Have to contact > | the medical supply place Monday and check into insurance and all > | that. > | > | Forgot to ask what blood 02 was. > | > | Also have me a prescription for Flonase for any allergy or CPAP > | related congestion. And some ambien (5 mg) for if I have trouble > | falling asleep when I first start using the CPAP. We also > | talked getting into a RIGID sleep wake schedule to get my body’s > | clock back to normal. I’ve tried this several times before, but > | let’s hope the CPAP helps with that. I’m sure getting a good > | night’s sleep will help. > | > | Wow. That was kind of long. If anyone has any advice, please > | feel free to give it! > | > | Thanks to everyone here for being so supportive! > | > | – > | Aaron C. Pawlyk > | Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics > | Texas A&M University > | > | "For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for > | the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; > | and for him without concentration there is no peace. > | And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?" > | — Bhagavad Gita
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