Sleep Studay WTF?!?

Hey everyone I just has my nurse consult in Windsor last week and OMG! she said cuz my BMI is over 50 (mine is 51) that I had to go for a sleep study! what does this have to do with weight loss??? I never had and issue before and my family doctor says he has no concerns so WTF? anyway since I found out that S**t on the 6th I been trying to get my BMI down past 50 so I dont have to do it. lets just say carb withdrawl!! apparently I been a B***h to everyone today.

Hi I just went for my second sleep study.. My Bmi is 43? Maybe a little more....I do have severe sleep apnea...I stop breathing over 63 times an hour... Most clinic request a sleep study no matter what your BMI is ... It's hard to believe you got it even when told..

Sleep apnea has a lot to do with weight loss (and weight gain) and neck circumference and BMI are only some contributing factors. The most important reason to get the sleep test done is so that the anaesthesiologist that puts you under during surgery knows about it and can take precautions to keep your airway open and so that when you are coming out of surgery they can monitor your oxygen levels:

"General anesthesia suppresses upper airway muscle activity, and it may impair breathing by allowing the airway to close. Anesthesia thus may increase the number of and duration of sleep apnea episodes and may decrease arterial oxygen saturation. Further, anesthesia inhibits arousals which would occur during sleep. Attention to sleep apnea should continue into the post-operative period because the lingering sedative and respiratory depressant effects of the anesthetic can pose difficulty, as can some analgesics."

You definitely want to get the test done, for the sake of your own health during surgery and also before. I didn't have any symptoms of sleep apnea that I knew about - no snoring, no waking up in the night that I could remember, no dry mouth in the morning. Got the test done, turned out I had severe apnea. It feels like a hold up in the process, but if they tell you to get it done then most likely they won't move you forward for surgery until it's done, even if you lose a bit of weight. Fingers crossed you are fine and don't have any issues, but better safe than sorry :)

Welcome to the club, I have severe sleep apnea as well, I was fortunate that I didn't have to go for another sleep study as I was already being treated. However, most surgerons will not do surgery unless you have a sleep study. Its one night, and it could end up saving your life if you have sleep apnea. I stopped breathing 68 times an hour, thats more than once a minute. Just go get it done if you dont have it GREAT if you do, then you will need to be treated before surgery. Good Luck

I am dealing with Windsor also and they also made me do it for the same reason. It was so stupid. But thankfully the test showed I only had mild apnea so I was not required to get the cpap machine to continue on with the bypass assesment

Many, many people are required to have this test; it is NOT stupid. It's for your safety during and after surgery.

No sense in being pissed off about it. this test is for your SAFETY! 

Great post by Katie!! 

OK but what I dont understand is I had to have my gull bladder out not to long ago and I was this big and they never required a sleep study. I had it laperscopy just like the wight loss will be and it was a 2 hour proceedure. all Im asking is whats the diffrence? and how long does it take to get in and did it post pone your surgary?

Hard to say why they didn't have you do a sleep study before your gallbladder came out. Maybe they didn't feel there was a risk, and hopefully you don't have apnea. But if the WLS people are telling you that you need it, it's for a reason. They are the experts here and they are trying to keep you safe and healthy during surgery. Maybe the anaesthesiologist that saw you for your gallbladder didn't have any concerns, but you don't want to be at your PATTS appointment a week before your WLS surgery and have that anaesthesiologist ask if you have apnea or are on CPAP, and you don't know. Because that will for sure delay your surgery. 

How long it takes to get the sleep study in really depends on your location. I am close to a sleep clinic in Brampton and got in in about six weeks, with a follow-up appointment two weeks later. So it didn't delay things for me at all. But I know some parts of the province have a huge backlog and people are taking months to get in. Hopefully someone close to your location can give you an idea of the wait time :)

I had laproscopic knee surgery the month before my sleep study..... the surgeon asked me bedside before the surgery if I had sleep apnea and he said it was important to know so they would watch for signs and because I hadn't had my sleep study yet I proudly said nope no sleep apnea.... when he came to see me in recovery post surgery  he said you think you don't have sleep apnea I've got news for you  we almost lost you in there. Next time tell your surgeon in advance. I did not lie on purpose but I think he believed I did.