couldn’t fucking sleep during it 
gonna have perpetual anxiety about them not getting the data that they needed for it until I find out results 
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As long as you stayed in bed for like 7-8 hours, and they probably basically forced you to from my experience with sleep studies (a lot of them), you probably slept more than you realize. I thought for one study that I had been up staring at the clock for hours, and surely I had been, but drifting in and out of sleep throughout the night was enough for them. I guess it should also be kinda stated that they know you’re there because you have symptoms that make sleeping different for you than what is expected as the norm. They know no one will sleep perfectly fine under monitored conditions and they can find ways to work with the data they get.
I managed to get my diagnosis for obstructive sleep apnea (moderate) from the at-home monitor.
I thought for sure it was gonna be a bust and that I’d have to go in and get rigged up like some Ghost in the Shell shit, because I remember being awake a lot.
but they got what they needed. I started sleeping much better under treatment (started like 6 weeks ago). it’s been a dramatic shift for me. I feel more awake and seem to have better recall, I’m more positive/less irritable, make better/healthier decisions early in the morning, I think I’m losing weight and my resting BP has gone down.
a good night’s sleep is the realist shit.
the older I get, the more the basics seem to be critical: eat fiber, stretch, walk like 15-20 mins, and get a good night’s sleep. I’m not an athlete, but when I do those things I feel pretty good. that’s an everyday layup I can go for.
They don’t give you like sleeping pills for that?
no, gonna guess that the logic is they wouldn’t be able to tell if any symptoms are reactions to the medicine or otherwise
though it’s already complicated by the fact that I didn’t fucking sleep
TIL, makes sense though, sorry it turned out that way. I’d be in the same situation, I can’t sleep unless I take my nighttime meds which would probably disqualify me.
I don’t understand how that works anyway cuz how are you supposed to sleep when you’re being studied by medical equipment…
They have you hooked up with like 50 wires and they’re all uncomfortable, plus they put a thing up your nose
It depends on your condition. I “luckily” (in this case only, pretty much) have narcolepsy so when I went in for my multiple, way way too many, sleep studies I never had an issue falling asleep. The only issue is waking up and needing to piss. There’s an actual human sort of watching the people all sleeping and they’ll chime in immediately when you wake up (like some scifi shit) because they have your heartrate and brain scans going plus monitoring your facial movements, body movements and a camera to just see you overall. So they’ll come over the intercom in your room before you move around too much to be like “are you ok?” And you just talk out loud to this disembodied voice and a nurse or technician of some sort will come in and disconnect the main wires so you can go piss… it’s a surreal experience overall. I don’t know how more normal people do manage to sleep. Like for me it’s not an issue, but if someone suffers from less symptomatic stuff I can see them just laying there like “why do I have this plastic tube stuffed up my nose and goo leaking down from my hair…?”
