Had my sleep study..strange feelings...
Well, I had both my sleep studies, Tuesday night and Wed night at
Carraway...the first night was fine, but the second night when they
put the CPAP on me, I began to panic...I really am not "technically"
clostrophobic, but having ANYTHING covering my face, head or airways,
scares me silly...and when they put the CPAP on and turned on the air
flow, i had to sit up for a few minutes just to calm down and think
the situation through...the tech had already spent an hour attaching
me to every wire in the place and given me 2 Ambien to help me
sleep...so I wasn't going to just quit because I didnt want his time
to have been wasted...I did cry, then I calmed down and just
breathed until I finally fell asleep...
After the first night, what he told me is that I have Hypopnea versus
apnea...rather than my breathing stopping I have times where my
breathing is very shallow, my O2 levels drop though not into a very
dangerous zone, but that the times per hour that my body awakens or
arouses, was 39.4 times an hr...which he said was pretty bad...So I
think a CPAP is being delivered to my home, though I am HOPING that
with the surgery, my problems are lessened and I dont need it...the
doctor before the sleep study said that on a scale of 1-4, with 1
being the most open airway you can have, I have a 4...so I don't know
where it will go...but hopefully that was enough to get insurance
moving again...
HUGS all
Melissa