Holy crap, another update for you!
Don't you just love me? Anyways, I did my sleep study and I forgot whether I posted about my visit about my possible deviated septum or not as well, so I'm going to. Rojana got me into listening to Michael Jackson more often, it's actually a nice change of music. Andrew, Tomms friend just called, on a random note. About the visits now! I've been taking nasal sprays to see if that will help with my possible deviated septum. I say possible because I could never understand what the doctor was saying completely. If it doesn't work I go in to have some microwave something or other shrink the things at the back of my nose.
As for the sleep study, that was an interesting and new experience. I go in and the nurse uses what felt like sandpaper on my head, face, chest and legs. 2 electrodes on each leg, 2 on my chest and probably 12 on my head or so. The sandpaper like stuff hurt my scalp quite a bit, but this is all for a good cause so I sucked it up and cried when she left, haha, kidding. After sitting with all those things attached to me and cords everywhere, I finally got to go to bed.
I was told before I went to bed that I would be running a few simple tests to see if all the equipment worked. Also, I was told that if my breathes stopped 20 times in 1 minute or my oxygen level dropped 4% or more while I was sleeping I would have a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) machine attached to help me breathe better while I slept. To my slight surprise, I was woken up and had one put on me midway through my sleep. So I guess I have sleep apnea, in no specific way was I told though. They did hook up the machine and set me up to get one, so I assume I do, and my grandfather has it so it's not out of the realm of reason that I would too. So that's my little story for the time, hope you epic readers come back next week for some more awesome Bob journal writes.
As for the sleep study, that was an interesting and new experience. I go in and the nurse uses what felt like sandpaper on my head, face, chest and legs. 2 electrodes on each leg, 2 on my chest and probably 12 on my head or so. The sandpaper like stuff hurt my scalp quite a bit, but this is all for a good cause so I sucked it up and cried when she left, haha, kidding. After sitting with all those things attached to me and cords everywhere, I finally got to go to bed.
I was told before I went to bed that I would be running a few simple tests to see if all the equipment worked. Also, I was told that if my breathes stopped 20 times in 1 minute or my oxygen level dropped 4% or more while I was sleeping I would have a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) machine attached to help me breathe better while I slept. To my slight surprise, I was woken up and had one put on me midway through my sleep. So I guess I have sleep apnea, in no specific way was I told though. They did hook up the machine and set me up to get one, so I assume I do, and my grandfather has it so it's not out of the realm of reason that I would too. So that's my little story for the time, hope you epic readers come back next week for some more awesome Bob journal writes.