CPAP Testing?????

I had a test test done at the beginning of July and it came back that it is recommended that I have a CPAP test done because I was diagnosed as having Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Hypersomnia. With this CPAP test, after it's done do they send you home with one or what? What's involved with this test?

They will have you do a sleep study. You spend the night at the sleep center and are connected to a bunch of electrodes that are glued to your head. Totally painless. They will monitor your heart, oxygen level, and leg movements as you sleep. You will go to bed as usual and they will have the room dim and have a camera on you at all times. That way they can also watch you sleep. If you have apnea they will hook you up to one during the night and see how you sleep then. If you need a cpap machine they will set you up with a home health care service and have one delivered and set up for you. They will show you how to operate it and clean it. I have had one for about 4 or 5 years now and have become so use to it I can't sleep without it now.

I could never do this test I fart in my sleep

Oh no - now I'm worried. My doctor scheduled one for me. What if that happens to me? My room mate in college said that happened. Now I'm going to have stage fright and be unable to sleep!

I fart in my sleep too. My daughters boyfriend calls me the bloated beast. LOL He doesn't know that I know. Not that I care. Unfortunately it is a normal bodily function and no one will say a word if you do. So don't worry about it. We have no clue as to what we do in our sleep and the staff at the sleep center are very used to it. So don't freak out.

Some people do have trouble getting to sleep, just because of the environment. I suggest taking a Tylenol PM about when they start hooking you up to the electrodes then when its time to sleep you will have a little help.

Maybe too late posting here, but I went through all of it - sleep study (electrode city), diagnosis of apnea, another sleep study (to set the right CPAP level) and got a CPAP. For me it worked out that I got a perscription for a pressure level and then set up a date for machine home delivery. It went very smoothly getting the machine. It went a bit less smoothly getting used to sleeping with it. But it only took me about a week to get used to it. The second test - they called it a titration study - was basically the same as the first one. They hook up all the same electrodes and sensors, except for the nasal breathing monitor. They replace that with an actual CPAP mask. You go to sleep and they test out various levels to see what level best keeps your airway open. By the way, the folks who run the sleep lab caution that anything you take to help you sleep (alcohol, tylenol PM) will interfer with results. You shouldn't take anything unless they tell you it's okay. Good luck!!! Lady