Sleep Study Tomorrow Night

Tomorrow night I am going to the hospital for a full sleep study.  I am excited!  I am hoping that my number will go down.  I am currently on 15 and have been for over 2 years.  But over the last 2 months it seems like my CPAP doesn't feel the same.  And I am having a harder time waking up.  So my Dr made me an appt to have the sleep study.  Yeah.  I wonder if I need to bring my own machine and mask or will I wear theirs?  I should call tomorrow morning and ask.  I know it will probably be about a wee****il I get my new results, but I will be sure to let everyone know.  I was pretty sure I would be on my CPAP for life, since it was suspected that I have had Sleep Apnea my whole life, even when I was "skinny".  Looks like maybe not :) Who knows.

Good luck with your sleep study. Im hoping you will be able to someday get off of it too. I know thats my hope as well. Ive had mine for almost 20yrs...it would be so weird to be without it...but oh so wonderful lol

Well they did the complete Sleep Study.  I didn't have my CPAP or any oxygen on, which caused me to wake up with a horrible de-sat headache (desaturation: when your o2 levels drop low).  But I understand that they needed a true reading, so I didn't complain about it.  They said that for most of the night my sats stayed at 95, but when I fell into the REM sleep (which was a few hours before they woke me up) they dropped to 85.  I remember moving aorund and being asleep but not dreaming and being aware of things around me, and that sometime after 2 (I woke for a drink and checked my cell) I fell into a deep sleep and started having some random weird dreams, which the sleep techs said they could tell when I started dreaming.  Good thing they can't see what I was dreaming, hahaha.  No for real though, it was wierd, it was like I was on the set of a movie, and we were all doing our lines, and then at a break, I snuck a smoke and one of the other actors was like you cant smoke, and then they snuck one too and next thing everyone on the set was huddled together sneaking smokes, LOL  How wierd huh, but I guess I dreamed that because the Sleep Tech remembered me from when I did my sleep study 2 years earlier and asked if I still smoked.  Which I proudly beamed and said NO it will be 2 years smoke free come New Years eve. So anyway, I go back on the 16th for the Sleep Study again where I will wear the CPAP and o2, and they will do the different settings till they find my CPAP "sweet spot".