Wouldn’t you be basically guaranteed to sleep poorly?
I know just being in a hotel I wake up and flop around all night. Being observed and tested seems telling me that would just make it worse.
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CPAP wearer and former non-believer in sleep studies here. I had a sleep study done because I was repeatedly falling asleep at the wheel on my way home from work. The trigger for me to go get the sleep study was being pulled over by the police and getting an escort home because I didn’t trust myself to get home.
I had been having episodes of what is often described clinically as sleep paralysis for years. I would nod off while sitting around a table with friends or while at a restaurant. I could hear everything that was going on and I had reactions to it in my mind but I couldn’t move or speak to take part in the conversation. When I woke up it was often with a deep breath and I could just naturally get back into the conversation because I had been taking it all in. Oftentimes no one knew I had been asleep until I snorted or took a big breath.
I went into the sleep study pretty skeptical. I didn’t think I’d be able to sleep. Lots and lots of wires clipped all over me, I was quite anxious. I laid back in the bed and was thinking about what to put on the TV because I usually like to fall asleep with the tube on and the next thing I know I’m getting shaken awake.
The nurse says that I started snoring immediately but otherwise I was sleeping pretty normally until I transitioned into deep sleep. At that point my throat closed completely, I stopped breathing, and I shot back up into light sleep (or some non-deep sleep state). She said that happened all night long. They suggested I probably hadn’t had any good, deep sleep in years based on some of my other health indicators.
So I got a couple of things done. ENT recommended rhinoplasty to fix a deviated septum and turbinate reduction to open up my airway. I also had some stuff done to my sinuses which is too gross to even discuss in public.
And after I healed up I got a CPAP. I immediately stopped snoring and had the deepest, most restful sleep of my life. After about a month with the CPAP I felt like a new person and never even felt drowsy during the day. I lost weight (I was already in decent shape) and a bunch of my other health problems slipped away.
TL;DR – If you really need a sleep study you’re probably so GD tired you could sleep anywhere, including at the wheel of a truck, and any bed is a slice of heaven.
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