So, yeah, that happened.
Nov. 14th, 2008 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bzarcherGot to the sleep study place around 7:30 after food, traffic, and did I mention traffic?
Gave them my paperwork I'd already filled out, filled out more paperwork, then I was shown to my test room, changed, and generally prepared myself. I mostly watched TV (GO CREW!) and read a bit. Around 10, the nurses came in and wired me up. I will admit that having my head, neck, and torso rubbed down with conductive-whatever-the-hell-that-was goop by two pretty young ladies was the absolute highlight of the night. The actual wiring, less so.
After getting wired up, I was lead to bed while they did final hookups (Dear sleep study equipment manufacturers - why 3 different types of leads that had to go into my nostrils? Is this not 2008? Can't we design a single piece of equipment that might provide the needed diagnostic data?) They had me just lie there with my eyes open for about 10 minutes to do baselines and diagnostics, then a few tests with eye movement, deep breaths, shallow breaths, etc.
Trying to get to sleep was, honestly, pretty difficult. The monitoring gear on my head, chest, legs, and neck weren't too bad, but the aforementioned crap stuffed up my nose was really irritating and tended to pop out if I moved my head too much.
Once I was close enough to comfortable to fall asleep, I got woken back up. (I think this was around 1am or so, but I'm not 100% sure - no clocks in the study room, and I turned my cell phone off per their instructions so I didn't have it on my nightstand.) They eased me up, removed the hated nasal monitors, and put a CPAP nose mask on me. After the fit and finish were settled, they helped me lower back down onto the bed without popping any of my remaining leads, fired up the machine, and I passed out pretty quickly. Then I was woken up again (I don't think it was very much later) and they adjusted the mask a bit on me. I don't honestly recall much of that until all of the sudden they were turning the lights up and telling me it was time to get up (5am - ish).
They can't officially tell me the results without the doctor looking at it and sending me a report, but the nurse who'd been monitoring me did say I slept "much, much better" once the CPAP was tuned in for me, so yeaaaaah....
They asked me to fill out yet more paperwork (an evaluation of how I slept plus a customer satisfaction survey for my experience during the study, which I found pretty funny), and I have to admit that for having my sleep interrupted several times in the night + being awakened way earlier than I normally would, I feel surprisingly good, so there may just be something to this after all.
After a shower and scrubbing all the electrode goo off of me and out of my hair, I was free to go at about 5:30, so I decided to go get some breakfast and go into work - just didn't seem worth going back to the house just to turn around and go back.
For breakfast, I went to Bob Evans. They have pumpkin griddle bread. This is a very mundane and surprisingly undescriptive name for rapturous tasty baked goodness, lightly grilled and covered in cinnamon butter and whipped cream.
Gave them my paperwork I'd already filled out, filled out more paperwork, then I was shown to my test room, changed, and generally prepared myself. I mostly watched TV (GO CREW!) and read a bit. Around 10, the nurses came in and wired me up. I will admit that having my head, neck, and torso rubbed down with conductive-whatever-the-hell-that-was goop by two pretty young ladies was the absolute highlight of the night. The actual wiring, less so.
After getting wired up, I was lead to bed while they did final hookups (Dear sleep study equipment manufacturers - why 3 different types of leads that had to go into my nostrils? Is this not 2008? Can't we design a single piece of equipment that might provide the needed diagnostic data?) They had me just lie there with my eyes open for about 10 minutes to do baselines and diagnostics, then a few tests with eye movement, deep breaths, shallow breaths, etc.
Trying to get to sleep was, honestly, pretty difficult. The monitoring gear on my head, chest, legs, and neck weren't too bad, but the aforementioned crap stuffed up my nose was really irritating and tended to pop out if I moved my head too much.
Once I was close enough to comfortable to fall asleep, I got woken back up. (I think this was around 1am or so, but I'm not 100% sure - no clocks in the study room, and I turned my cell phone off per their instructions so I didn't have it on my nightstand.) They eased me up, removed the hated nasal monitors, and put a CPAP nose mask on me. After the fit and finish were settled, they helped me lower back down onto the bed without popping any of my remaining leads, fired up the machine, and I passed out pretty quickly. Then I was woken up again (I don't think it was very much later) and they adjusted the mask a bit on me. I don't honestly recall much of that until all of the sudden they were turning the lights up and telling me it was time to get up (5am - ish).
They can't officially tell me the results without the doctor looking at it and sending me a report, but the nurse who'd been monitoring me did say I slept "much, much better" once the CPAP was tuned in for me, so yeaaaaah....
They asked me to fill out yet more paperwork (an evaluation of how I slept plus a customer satisfaction survey for my experience during the study, which I found pretty funny), and I have to admit that for having my sleep interrupted several times in the night + being awakened way earlier than I normally would, I feel surprisingly good, so there may just be something to this after all.
After a shower and scrubbing all the electrode goo off of me and out of my hair, I was free to go at about 5:30, so I decided to go get some breakfast and go into work - just didn't seem worth going back to the house just to turn around and go back.
For breakfast, I went to Bob Evans. They have pumpkin griddle bread. This is a very mundane and surprisingly undescriptive name for rapturous tasty baked goodness, lightly grilled and covered in cinnamon butter and whipped cream.
