My Sleep Study

[mbumby]

I've always needed a lot of sleep. 13 hours is what I think I need. That's per night not per week. (This is not to say I get that very often. The last time I got enough sleep, waking rested, was in 2001. The time before that was 1996

Comments

Sleep apnea

[markiv1111]

I'm glad you were comfortable writing all this up. I tend to suspect that people who believe they need 13 hours of sleep usually are getting very poor sleep when they are lying down, which is why they need to get more hours. I spent some years feeling I needed 11 or 12, finally cut down to a solid 9 (when I can count on it) and then found out I had sleep apnea (having already been told: "You have sleep disturbance, profound.") I am now sleeping 8 1/2 to 9 1/2 hours per night and feeling quite good, though it did take me at least a month to get used to the mask. In any event, please keep us posted.

Nate

Re: Sleep apnea

[mbumby]

I will keep all posted. I had/have always thought that I sleep very well. I certainly usually stay down once I get there, and I usually get there quite quickly. (Glad you're taking care of your issues, and that the mask has helped.)

[renniekins]

Sounds exhausting, but interesting! At least, I find medically stuff fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

I hope they found enough data to get you feeling better. *hug!*

[mbumby]

Me too! :-) Guess I'll know in 3.5 weeks.

[cjsmith]

Ooo, good luck. My partner used to be a good solid 12-hr-a-night kind of guy (when he could get it, which was rare, so he was always tired) and the mask changed his life. I hope you find a solution that works well for you.

[mbumby]

Thanks. I'm hoping the mask isn't the answer -- I know some people take to them better than others, and some people they cause sickness in ... and... I don't know -- I think my life is complicated enough without adding that level of complexity... But if that is the recommended answer, I'll at least give it my best shot.

[cjsmith]

I hear ya. Three more weeks (and a fraction maybe)? Good luck...

[mbumby]

Thanks.

[jennlk]

The Wendy's is off the main drag. It's down the frontage road (properly named Brown Drive, but I'm not sure anyone in town calls it that), west of M52. If you'd turned left at the light -just- after you turned onto M52 (it's almost a U-turn, but not quite), it's down that road, just past the Comfort Inn and before you get to the propane dealer.

My sister and I have had lunch quite a few times at the Chelsea Grille. It's good food. Not as foodie as the Common Grill (nor as expensive), but good basic food.

It's hard to do broccoli well in a cafeteria/large kitchen setting. I thought the food at CCH was at least as good as the food at UMs Women's & Children's, and it served at something much closer to proper serving temperature.

[mbumby]

Not sure I was on M52. The Garmin took me in exit 162 -- down Old US 12. If M52 is the street that the hospital is on, I was only on it for what, 0.2 miles, and only between the hospital and old 12. Wrong exit I'm guessing. There was something (Stivers?) at the exit the Garmin took me down, but I didn't know what it was, so I didn't try. Wonder if the Common Grill (which I didn't find) is the place that was recommended... but is probably closed on Mondays so never mind... The wait-staff was wearing flashing-but-subdued green, and there was good fiddle music being played. But that's all the St. Patty's day madness that hit there. Oh, and the cigarette smoke that came over the wall from the 3 smoking seats, but while noticeable, it wasn't terrible. (Can't compare CCH to Women's, but I'll take your word on it.)

[jennlk]

You're right -- different exit. I didn't know you were navigating by GPS -- the Fletcher Rd exit (162) is probably a little more direct to CCH's south entrance, but not to the west entrance (which is the one off M52). Stiver's is, afaik, your standard small town EAT at the exit. Food is decent, but it's mostly a local's place now. The Common Grill is downtown, past the hospital (and yes, it is closed on Mondays).

[demoneyes]

Ooh great idea, let's conduct a sleep study in a noisy room - that'll give good representative results, won't it?

Of course our definition of "noisy" and some other people's might not coincide, but generally in an experiment one tries to get rid of variables which might affect the results! (Actually, I'd have expected them to ask whether you normally sleep in a quiet or noisy environment and then try to replicate that so that what they saw was representative of your normal sleeping arrangements.

Hope it manages to produce some useful results anyway!

[mbumby]

To be fair, it wasn't _terribly_ noisy, but _I_ could hear the receptionist talking on the phone and other whatnot, and it caught my attention. Agree with your 2nd and third paragraphs completely. Thanks.