Sleep Study Tonight

Tonight I have a sleep study, req by my surgeon. Not quite sire what to expect or if the stuff they stick on you head will make it hard to sleep. We shall see how it goes. Wish me good sleep!

They stick lots of monitors to your head, chest, arms and legs and then tell you to engage in your normal bedtime routine, reading or whatever, for a little bit. Then you are expected to go to sleep, which, for me, was hard to do with all of that stuff. They monitor your vitals and also watch you from a video monitor. In my case, I had moderate apnea, which showed up right away, so they woke me up half way through the night to plug me into a CPAP. They used the rest of the night to get my levels right, and I went back a few days later to get my machine. Good luck! If you do have it, it is much, much safer for you to be using a CPAP, especially before surgery.

I didn't have to go into an office for my sleep study, thank goodness.  I took home a little machine that i stuck to my forehead and it recorded my breathing patterns and everything.  It showed that I also had moderate sleep apnea, which was very surprising to me. I met with a pulmanologist and he said my apnea wasn't too severe so I didn't need a CPAP machine. Very glad about that... hopefully my sleep apnea is disappearing the more weight I lose.

I hope everything goes well for you tonight and you are nice and tired so you can get some rest! :-)

That's so cool that you got to do the study at home!! I wish I had that option and glad you did not have to have CPAP. I hope I do not have to as well.

almost everyone that has a sleep study needs a cpap,

if you have trouble sleeping both me and my hubby did ask for  a sleeping pill

 the beds where my surgeon sent me for the sleep study where not made for heavy weight and where very uncomfortable

I looked like a computer exploded with all the wires and boards on me   

 they say I slept 4 hours but I think they lied

 don't plan on doing anything important the next day,I heard of people having the psychic exam the next morning no a good idea

Mine was pretty simple and the only thing that bothered me was sleeping on my back. I ended up flipping over at some point and they didnt wake me lol. Good luck!

Thanks everyone!! The study went fine although it was super weird will all the leads stuck all over my head. I slept ok from 10 - 3:00am, but then the leads kept coming off an they kept waking me up to plug them back in. So not much sleep then. I get the results next Thursday.