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Sleep study
Sep. 2nd, 2008 03:42 pmShort version:
The technician said I showed signs of apnea when I slept. Which wasn't much. Pure hell.
Long version:
I didn't sleep Saturday night or any during Sunday in hopes that I'd crash when I went to bed at the sleep center. I need to remember that hope hates me. Went to bed around 10pm. Miserable night. Woke up 5-6 times, had alternating leg cramps every time I got up. Also the wires kept coming loose, so the tech kept having to come back in, reset them, and tape them down. She finally got me up around 5:30 am, since I had been awake since 4:30-5 am. Heh, in the instructions they give you, it says not to take anything that makes you sleepy - I guess it can mess up the readings - but her suggestion for when I go back for the second night is to bring my Ambien - she said she noted my problems sleeping in my folder :)
So I get home, have some breakfast - and go to sleep. For pretty much the rest of the day. I wake up a lot (I always do), but I go right back to sleep. Got up, did dinner, played on the computer a bit - and went back to sleep until around 6:30 am. Which was fine, since I had to get up at 7:30 for an 8:30 doctor's appointment. So apparently the only place I can sleep is at home in my recliner {sigh} - and just like after every time I've been in the hospital, my right leg is numb again. Something about hospital beds screws up the feeling in my leg (though it is a bit better today).
And the sleep center called me again to see if I wanted to come in tonight for my second night's study. At first I said yes (with a whine and a sigh{{g}}), but then I realized that my stress test is tomorrow. And it apparently takes a long time - they do part of it before I can eat anything, then they let you go to lunch and then you have to come back. And there wouldn't be enough time to go home and wash that goop out of my hair (the stuff they use to stick the electrodes on with) and I'm just *not* sitting around all day with that stuff in my hair :)
And I've got a call in to the doc who set up the sleep study - because shouldn't he see the first night's result before I go back? But I did cancel it so I'm not going tonight.
And now? I'm sleepy :)
The technician said I showed signs of apnea when I slept. Which wasn't much. Pure hell.
Long version:
I didn't sleep Saturday night or any during Sunday in hopes that I'd crash when I went to bed at the sleep center. I need to remember that hope hates me. Went to bed around 10pm. Miserable night. Woke up 5-6 times, had alternating leg cramps every time I got up. Also the wires kept coming loose, so the tech kept having to come back in, reset them, and tape them down. She finally got me up around 5:30 am, since I had been awake since 4:30-5 am. Heh, in the instructions they give you, it says not to take anything that makes you sleepy - I guess it can mess up the readings - but her suggestion for when I go back for the second night is to bring my Ambien - she said she noted my problems sleeping in my folder :)
So I get home, have some breakfast - and go to sleep. For pretty much the rest of the day. I wake up a lot (I always do), but I go right back to sleep. Got up, did dinner, played on the computer a bit - and went back to sleep until around 6:30 am. Which was fine, since I had to get up at 7:30 for an 8:30 doctor's appointment. So apparently the only place I can sleep is at home in my recliner {sigh} - and just like after every time I've been in the hospital, my right leg is numb again. Something about hospital beds screws up the feeling in my leg (though it is a bit better today).
And the sleep center called me again to see if I wanted to come in tonight for my second night's study. At first I said yes (with a whine and a sigh{{g}}), but then I realized that my stress test is tomorrow. And it apparently takes a long time - they do part of it before I can eat anything, then they let you go to lunch and then you have to come back. And there wouldn't be enough time to go home and wash that goop out of my hair (the stuff they use to stick the electrodes on with) and I'm just *not* sitting around all day with that stuff in my hair :)
And I've got a call in to the doc who set up the sleep study - because shouldn't he see the first night's result before I go back? But I did cancel it so I'm not going tonight.
And now? I'm sleepy :)
