Sleep Study
 

I'm going to have one here shortly.

lol - I actually had one done a few years ago.
I was less than impressed.

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I had my sleep study back in '99. And I have had a C-pap ever since. It changed my life.

I plan to sleep through it. I finally talked jinx into letting me go to the doctor. Had blood taken this morning also. just to see if I'm dying.

gonna be 40 soon, so I finally caved and went to the doctor.

Are you feeling poorly?

not really. I get sleepy sometimes in the afternoon. jinx says I choke in my sleep sometimes, and supposedly, i snore. (yeah right)

and monster's thread got us thinking about that other stuff.

well, you DO work about 100 hours a day...

right. I'm sleepy in the afternoons too. And the mornings. And especially the eveningzzzz zzz zz...zwhu..WHAT? I am paying attention, it was just a long blink.

I don't believe that bullcrap either! Women, always makin' stuff up...

Did you check your neck for finger marks the next morning?

:lol: beest beats me up in the night. And steals the duvet. And snores, but I like that bit -it's gentle and comforting. It's quiet when we're apart :(

Nothing like gluing on a zillion electrodes, hooking up a wiring harness fit for the space shuttle, and sticking you in a hospital bed, to check you're normal sleep patterns.:rolleyes:

i just want the fucken cpap thing paid for by Aetna. if i have to snore for some mooks in lab coats to get one, I'll do it!

I guess I should smoke a cigar and drink some Rum before I go there, so that I snore my best snores for them.

not all snoring is bad. The choking thing is not so good....

I'm too busy massaging the knee bruises on my back!

Dat call shiatsu. Good for chi.

I need ideas

I wanna do weird stuff to freak out the sleep watchers.

I was using a CPap. When I finally got it working well, they gave me some medication that damn near killed me. Haven't used it since.

Go to a Goodwill store or someplace and buy some really strange clothes, bing some stuffed animals/toys to sleep with ... just thinkin here.

Just insist that you have to sleep naked.


Except be all squeamish about it. "Eee, don't look at my nipples!"

I'm leaving for my sleep study in a few hours. Freakishly, I'm hoping it's apnea. That would explain a lot.

They explicitly told me I can't sleep naked. They didn't say anythign about a ballerina costume, however. You might try that LJ.

Good luck SN! LJ+ballerina costume - lol

Insist on keeping a Bowie knife under your pillow and be sure to scream "Die mutha fukka!" at the moment you wake up.

Mine's tonight too!

How weird is that

Nothing is weird in 2010. What two grown men do wired up in bed while being observed is their own business.

If it's the same bed, it's porn. :facepalm:

I guess if it's the right man and it's done correctly they don't even have to be in the same bed, bruce.

That's odd.

if we're both wired up at the same time, there is a chance that I can hack into foot's brain and change my grades to all As!

Or maybe I'll just put a zombie warning up.

We'll have to watch closely in the next few days to make sure you two haven't become pods.

I'm here. I have to wait 10 minutes before I go in. I'll try to take pictures of myself with all the wires and shit.

I had baked beans for dinner. Heh.

There is no try. Do.

You need a new profile pic anyway...

http://is7.itookthisonmyphone.com/m/...240&height=240

it SUCKED

i got a fucking TOOTHACHE in the middle of the night!

and the mattress was terrible. I couldn't lie on my back for more than 5 minutes without my lower back screaming at me.

the tech gave no indication of how it went. I'm kind of bummed

Meh. If it had been bad, they would have slapped a CPAP on you right away.

I'm saying that this night's sleep was not my normal night's sleep, and therefore not indicative of what I typically do in my sleep. My concern is that they will see no need for the cpap. I'd rather not have to repeat this experience. They had no advil for my toothache.....wtf?... Fuckers didn't even have a water cooler to get a drink at. Next time, if there is one, I'll bring a cooler and a six pack.

That photo should be on your next album cover, jimPod.

I'm pretty sure if you need a CPAP it'll show whether your sleep is atypical or not. I'd just never get to sleep in those conditions. How ridiculous. I assumed they'd try to make you as comfortable as possible, but doesn't sound like it.

Now do you have to go and get that tooth checked out?

i was just at the dentist and got good marks! I think it might be a sinus thing, actually. fucking hurt, and now it's fine. I'm baffled.

I just woke up from my post sleep study nap. Show up at 8:30pm, get wired up till 9:00, go to sleep at 9:30 (HA!)
Bed was ok, pillows were weird, wish I had brought mine.
9:31 fucking GODDAMN restless leg.
Awake all night it seemed, which was typical. I usually drop off to something approaching rest at about 4:00am.
5:00am WAKE UP CALL!
Here's your hat; what's your hurry? I did get a complimentary cup of tea or coffee, and a bottle of water the night before. The room was so dry, my eyes were glued shut.

The tech told me I snored and woke up a lot. She wasn't allowed to tell me if I stopped breathing (WTF?) MY wife said it was because most people would freak out. I know a couple of times I must have stopped because I remember waking up feeling a little adrenalin rush.

We'll see next week.

The glue was a bitch getting out of my hair. I think there is still some there.

yeah.... that sucks. I just got a high and tight right before i went, but i'm still scraping it out of the stubble. ick!

where's your pic?

So what happens next?

I forgot to bring my camera! D'oh. They took one of me with a mirror, ostensibly so the doc could see my fat neck.

They told me in a week my PCP would have the results and if I needed a cpap, they'd schedule another sleep study to calibrate the machine.

WTF do they do about restless leg? The tech told me that sometimes they can't tell if it was the leg that woke me up or the apnea. I guess they flip a coin.

They give the report to a Doctor, and he reviews it with my doctor, ....or something.

Do you have the leg thing going on often? I gotta have cold, moving air to sleep in or my legs keep me up.

You're doctor is a homeopathic hippie though, what's he gonna do with it? You told him you want this thing right?

edit: Oh and I'm pretty sure it was Piker that battled the mole, he has a lil' boo-boo on his lip.

i asked him to just prescribe the thing when I went. He said they had to do this study so they could decide what kind, and then to fit it. The tech said something about having to go back for another study unless he observed me stopping breathing multiple times and could put one on me last night....which didn't happen. bleh

Alright, I'll videotape your non-breathing ass...

lol... then you'll have proof that I don't snore!

No the weird thing is, I haven't had it for months, maybe a year. When I do get it it's fierce.

nail polish remover for the glue in your hair?

Is someone scratching your tummy at the time? :p:

No this new stuff is water soluble, I got a whole treatise on it. It is almost the consistency of beeswax, but water soluble. A lot of water.

I had that same stuff once - took a long while to get out.

You should try it with long hair sometime.

And the stupid technician had assured me when I was making the appointment that I'd be able to go straight to work afterwards, no problem... lying jerkface.

You'll be able to go straight to work *cough*and look like a mental patient *cough*

NAt-geo had something about being tired and sleep last night.
Dead Tired
Scientists explore whether tiredness can lead to health problems.

So I'm still waiting to read the report but a nurse called me and said that I only stopped breathing a little and don't need a cpap machine. IF I want to take fistfuls of pharmaceuticals for my restless legs then they will hook me up. They think I should lose some weight.

I probably only stopped breathing only a little since I never really fell asleep and that night was the first time in several months or longer that I had restless leg.

I'm skeptical.