Sleep Study
Getting my sleep study done Dec 3rd to see if I have the apnea. I'm sure I do. Wish I wasn't so far away from having my VSG but I know the time will go fast. Before we know it, it will be next May and I will be having my surgury. Just want to get this done and start being a real loser like the rest of you.
Sleep study is/was a pain in the ass but they want to know if you have the apnea because of the problems it can cause while you are under, or recovering from, the anesthesia. Will give you some time to get used to sleeping with a CPAP/BIPAP machine before surgery.
Back to the study itself, if you've never had one, they wire you to this contraption, tell you to go to bed and try to sleep...then every time you toss or turn this contraption chokes you or they come in and wake you up as your are finally knodding off to tell you there is a wire lose!
I gave up after a few hours and went home. 
Back to the study itself, if you've never had one, they wire you to this contraption, tell you to go to bed and try to sleep...then every time you toss or turn this contraption chokes you or they come in and wake you up as your are finally knodding off to tell you there is a wire lose!
I gave up after a few hours and went home. Never, and I mean NEVER, trust a fart!! 
I HATED the sleep study and the $%#$&#@ CPAP machine more! One of the BEST things about my post RNY is no longer having to use that $%#$&$@ Machine!
Eating junk food and CRAP is not a reward...it's a punishment...
it's a DEATH sentence...Reward yourself with Good Health!
Highest Weight: 287 Lbs-January 2010; Reached Goal 195 Lbs - Dec 2010
Total Lost: 92 Lbs; Completed FULL MARATHON (26.2 Miles) 10-16-2011
it's a DEATH sentence...Reward yourself with Good Health!
Highest Weight: 287 Lbs-January 2010; Reached Goal 195 Lbs - Dec 2010
Total Lost: 92 Lbs; Completed FULL MARATHON (26.2 Miles) 10-16-2011
I swore I didn't have sleep apnea.. since I sleep like a baby.. fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow .. The study is a pain,, and supposedly I DID have sleep apnea, but not bad enough to require a machine.. I still doubted that I had any.. BUT....
since I've had surgery I no longer wake up several times per night to pee.
so maybe my mild sleep apnea was causing me to be awake enough to feel the urge
to pee during the night..
Now most nights I sleep right through.. but then again.. I no longer drink a gallon of pop (soda)
before bed.
J
since I've had surgery I no longer wake up several times per night to pee.
so maybe my mild sleep apnea was causing me to be awake enough to feel the urge
to pee during the night..
Now most nights I sleep right through.. but then again.. I no longer drink a gallon of pop (soda)
before bed.
J
And now for a different viewpoint... I learned in the Army to go to sleep the minute my head hit the pillow. I thought I slept well...
About 2 years ago, shortly after the death of Reggie White from (drum roll...) sleep apnea (yeah, seriously - no kidding), my wife became concerned because not only did I snore heavily, but i "stopped breathing" sometimes during the night. She convinced me to do a sleep study.
Yes, the study itself is a royal PITA. I was miserable the entire time, until at some point the guy came in and said "It's time to get up now..." I had been asleed for about 3 hours wearing a mask and all those wires. I asked the guy "So, do I have apnea?" His reply astonished me! I was apparently having an apnea episode (stopping breathing) every 94 seconds! He said he's been doing these tests for more than 20 years (worked with the original guys who pioneered the CPAP machines) and only twice before had seen results as severe as mine.
I was prescribed a BIPAP machine (similar to CPAP, but uses two different pressure levels) because the air pressure required to keep my breathing going was so high that it would have been extremely difficult to exhale against it... All I can tell you is that I felt like a new man. I stopped getting sleepy every time I sat in a comfortable chair. I started seeing the end of movies I watched in my recliner. I found myself much more alert during the daytime, and has a lot more energy.
Before the sleep study, I was basically severely sleep deprived. How I kept going is a mystery to me, because from the study results, I would have been getting about 10 minutes of REM sleep per night (that's the one your body really needs), and even that was broken up into segments of no more than 5-10 seconds at a time.
If you are obese, and you snore, the odds are pretty good that you have some degree of apnea. As I learned when Reggie White died from it, sleep apnea causes all sorts of bad side effects, including heart failure, falling asleep at the wheel, and so forth.
So get that sleep study, and if they tell you that you need a CPAP machine, use it! We want you to be around to not only have your surgery, but to celebrate being able to "dump the pump" (get off the CPAP machine) when you lose the weight!
About 2 years ago, shortly after the death of Reggie White from (drum roll...) sleep apnea (yeah, seriously - no kidding), my wife became concerned because not only did I snore heavily, but i "stopped breathing" sometimes during the night. She convinced me to do a sleep study.
Yes, the study itself is a royal PITA. I was miserable the entire time, until at some point the guy came in and said "It's time to get up now..." I had been asleed for about 3 hours wearing a mask and all those wires. I asked the guy "So, do I have apnea?" His reply astonished me! I was apparently having an apnea episode (stopping breathing) every 94 seconds! He said he's been doing these tests for more than 20 years (worked with the original guys who pioneered the CPAP machines) and only twice before had seen results as severe as mine.
I was prescribed a BIPAP machine (similar to CPAP, but uses two different pressure levels) because the air pressure required to keep my breathing going was so high that it would have been extremely difficult to exhale against it... All I can tell you is that I felt like a new man. I stopped getting sleepy every time I sat in a comfortable chair. I started seeing the end of movies I watched in my recliner. I found myself much more alert during the daytime, and has a lot more energy.
Before the sleep study, I was basically severely sleep deprived. How I kept going is a mystery to me, because from the study results, I would have been getting about 10 minutes of REM sleep per night (that's the one your body really needs), and even that was broken up into segments of no more than 5-10 seconds at a time.
If you are obese, and you snore, the odds are pretty good that you have some degree of apnea. As I learned when Reggie White died from it, sleep apnea causes all sorts of bad side effects, including heart failure, falling asleep at the wheel, and so forth.
So get that sleep study, and if they tell you that you need a CPAP machine, use it! We want you to be around to not only have your surgery, but to celebrate being able to "dump the pump" (get off the CPAP machine) when you lose the weight!
You sounds like me. I know I am sleep deprived. I usually only get 6 hrs a night and hardly ever get REM sleep. Kids wake me up, wife wakes me up cause im snoring and I do stop breathing sometimes. Once my wife hit me so hard I stopped breathing and she thought she killed me. But when in the past I've lost a bunch of weight, I stop snoring and sleep much better. Im just doing the stupid test for the surgury. I don't plan on getting a machine or anything like that. If it helps me with the insurance then I will do it.
I hated the sleep study also and layed awake most of the night having to pee. I didn't want to bother the nurse to get disconnected so I just layed there. Anyway, my surgery team just took precautions in assumption that everyone had apnea. I don't think that I got the study results before I had the surgery. The sleep Dr was a dick anyway. Good luck to you.
Scott
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4 full's - 14 halves - 2 goofy's and one Mt. Washington!
Echos to the posters who found the sleep study to be unpleasant. I think it took me the entire next day to recover. Talk about sleep-deprived.
My sleep study was undertaken several months before I began thinking about weight loss surgery. It was a rinky-dink operation, only dealt with a technician and never once saw or spoke with a doctor. After a terrible night with wires and probes handing from every possible place, they kicked me out at 6 a.m. A boiler-plate written report followed, signed with an illegible scrawl from some guy calling himself a doctor. What a surprise: I had sleep apnea and was set to take delivery of a CPAP machine.
I think it was the prospect of having to sleep with an air compressor strapped to my face for the rest of my life that got me to thinking about weight loss surgery. Once thing led to another, and today I am four and a half months post-op (RNY). I no longer have sleep apnea. I also no longer take any blood pressure or cholesterol medications. My diabetes has disappeared. My knees don't hurt.
Life is good.
Gee, maybe something good came from being sleep-deprived for a night.
My sleep study was undertaken several months before I began thinking about weight loss surgery. It was a rinky-dink operation, only dealt with a technician and never once saw or spoke with a doctor. After a terrible night with wires and probes handing from every possible place, they kicked me out at 6 a.m. A boiler-plate written report followed, signed with an illegible scrawl from some guy calling himself a doctor. What a surprise: I had sleep apnea and was set to take delivery of a CPAP machine.
I think it was the prospect of having to sleep with an air compressor strapped to my face for the rest of my life that got me to thinking about weight loss surgery. Once thing led to another, and today I am four and a half months post-op (RNY). I no longer have sleep apnea. I also no longer take any blood pressure or cholesterol medications. My diabetes has disappeared. My knees don't hurt.
Life is good.
Gee, maybe something good came from being sleep-deprived for a night.
Hey MastoDon - you win for the BEST positive spin and attitude on the Sleep Study! Well Done! Congrats on your progress! Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!
Eating junk food and CRAP is not a reward...it's a punishment...
it's a DEATH sentence...Reward yourself with Good Health!
Highest Weight: 287 Lbs-January 2010; Reached Goal 195 Lbs - Dec 2010
Total Lost: 92 Lbs; Completed FULL MARATHON (26.2 Miles) 10-16-2011
it's a DEATH sentence...Reward yourself with Good Health!
Highest Weight: 287 Lbs-January 2010; Reached Goal 195 Lbs - Dec 2010
Total Lost: 92 Lbs; Completed FULL MARATHON (26.2 Miles) 10-16-2011
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