Sleep Apnea--comments?

[learnteach]

Sleep apnea--last night, the third person in recent times asked me if I had gone and checked for sleep apnea.  Sigh.  Time to stop being a martyr and go fight the system to see a doctor.  Of course, the fact that I'm waking up several times a night to urinate (when I don't need to urinate as much during the day), the spells of sleepyness and irritability (which I attribute to school based depression) and the excess weight I have and lack of exercise, combined with the fact that one of my brothers has a CPAP for his apnea...hmm.

Any help/notes any of my friends can give me?

Comments

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

CPAP *friend*! Really.
Also--if they do recommend it to you, remember that there are a variety of types of masks out there. If the first kind feels yucky to you, there are other types. And yeah--the sleep the night of the testing is really horrid bcause of the unfamiliarity of the testing equipment.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

And sometimes the sleep techs are real goobers and treat you like a pair of old boots, or send you home at 2am rather than letting you finish sleeping.... But those are minor compared to the good it can do you.

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

Kaiser sends you home with a bunch of monitors that you bring back the next morning. No sleep techs involved, and you're in your own bed--with a pulse ox, and a bunch o' other crap strapped to you.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I guess it depends, then. The three folks I know had to go to the sleep study center. They got wired up, slept a bit, got woken up, then one or two of them then were given a cpap to use, then they slept again, were awakened, and sent home.

Which wasn't such a big deal for someone with a car, but one of my pals used public transport, which goes to "seldom" after about 2am.