Sleep Study Results
The results of my July 2nd sleep study arrived, and the Olin primary doctor was not much help with interpreting them. Both her and the technicians called the results inconclusive; I call them wierd. The amount of apnea events was considered acceptable, with 4.5 events occuring an hour. You have to have at least 5 for you to be considered to have mild apnea.
The really wierd thing was my sleep patterns. I fell asleep in 6min, which is half the normal time, and entered REM sleep in 62 min, which is a half an hour earlier than normal people. And, while most people between young adult and ancient have an average REM of 20% of sleep, mine was 43.4% of sleep. What is even more irritating, I can't find anything online about prolonged REM sleep, just REM deprivation and REM sleep behavior disorder. I don't act out my dreams.
I am going to have to wait for my appointment in August with a neurologist before I can ask him about this and my strange MRI scans. At least in the meantime I have my sunglasses.
The really wierd thing was my sleep patterns. I fell asleep in 6min, which is half the normal time, and entered REM sleep in 62 min, which is a half an hour earlier than normal people. And, while most people between young adult and ancient have an average REM of 20% of sleep, mine was 43.4% of sleep. What is even more irritating, I can't find anything online about prolonged REM sleep, just REM deprivation and REM sleep behavior disorder. I don't act out my dreams.
I am going to have to wait for my appointment in August with a neurologist before I can ask him about this and my strange MRI scans. At least in the meantime I have my sunglasses.