I went for a sleep study this past Tuesday night and found out that I stop breathing for during the night for periods as long as 2 minutes at a time and that my oxygen level in my body drops to mid 50's. It's supposed to be mid 90's, which means that during those times my brain and the rest of my body organs are severely deprived of oxygen making my heart have to work so much harder to pump blood to meet my body's oxygen needs.
Part way through the night the girl woke me up and put me on a CPAP machine and apparently I slept fitfully for almost 4 hours and I even dreamed.
I rarely remember my dreams because apparently I wake up hundreds of times in the night and hardly ever enter REM sleep which means I don't dream often.
So now I am being fast tracked through the CPAP program because my case of Sleep Apnea is so severe that they want to get me using one when I sleep ASAP.
Anyone else have Sleep Apnea that they have to use a CPAP machine at night?
I'm familiar with them only from the perspective of having seen them used by patients I've looked after, but they put it on themselves and I have nothing to do with it.
The machine I was on during my sleep study was really quiet, so noise doesn't sound like it's going to be an issue provided I get a similar one. I'm worried about how hard it's going to be getting used to sleeping with a mask over my nose and connected by a hose to a machine.
Part way through the night the girl woke me up and put me on a CPAP machine and apparently I slept fitfully for almost 4 hours and I even dreamed.
I rarely remember my dreams because apparently I wake up hundreds of times in the night and hardly ever enter REM sleep which means I don't dream often.
So now I am being fast tracked through the CPAP program because my case of Sleep Apnea is so severe that they want to get me using one when I sleep ASAP.
Anyone else have Sleep Apnea that they have to use a CPAP machine at night?
I'm familiar with them only from the perspective of having seen them used by patients I've looked after, but they put it on themselves and I have nothing to do with it.
The machine I was on during my sleep study was really quiet, so noise doesn't sound like it's going to be an issue provided I get a similar one. I'm worried about how hard it's going to be getting used to sleeping with a mask over my nose and connected by a hose to a machine.