Sleep Disorder

[Heyher 581]

Well I get to do the sleep study tomorrow night. My blood oxygen level dropped to 73% furring the pulse ox home test. I don't stop breathing, but I start breathing really shallow. So then I will begin breathing rapidly to try to get oxygen. Sound like I am running in my sleep.

[Liamlover2011 66]

My sleep study is next month. I'm lucky kaiser provides machines so you can do it at home but I'm So not looking forward to doing it! Not that anyone is!! Good luck on yours...

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[ProudGrammy 8,322]

the sleep study wasn't too bad

went for the "overnight", they put wires on my head, no big deal - didn't get much sleep cuz they periodically woke me

was diagnosed w/sleep apnea

received a small machine w/mask - didn't mind wearing, didn't make hardly any noise

big improvement from the good ol' days when it was a big machine making lots of sounds/noise - my dad used to have

shortly after WLS - had an oximeter (think thats what its called) at home - they attached/put on my finger for the night so it couldn't fall off

after test results i was called and said i don't need the sleep mask anymore !!!!

WooHoo

[Heyher 581]

Hope that I can sleep some. Cpap worries me because I'm claustrophobic and can't stand things covering my nose and mouth. Don't wanna freak out and start ripping wires off me...

:-)

[bakawaka 59]

i do know a few people who have a CPAP machine. All of them say that after using it even the first night, they had the best sleep ever. They viewed it as a positive.

[Heyher 581]

Yeah I'm so viewing cpap as a negative thing. You do know what claustrophobic means right?

You put something over my nose or mouth then say to relax, it's not happening. I started to panic when they put it on last night. sleep tech did a great job calming me down and made sure I was able to fall back asleep.

Never said it was negative. Said I was worried.