| Echoing others' encouragement. My study was an easy at-home test which confirmed how bad my hypopnia was, mostly from the blood/oxygen ratio. Mine was going down into the 70s. It was so bad that immediately after that, they scheduled an inpatient test with the PAP machine. I was super skeptical of being able to sleep a) in a strange bed, b) with all those sensors on my head/chest, c) 4 hours earlier than usual, and d) on my back/side. (I was a hardcore stomach sleeper before.) At the second study, they strapped me into the sensor harness, put on the mask, and turned out the lights. It took what felt like about 5 minutes to get used to the sensation, but then I was out. Like someone flipped a switch to "Sleep now." Eight hours went by like a flash. I woke up the next morning super refreshed and feeling amazing. When they said it would be three days until I could get my machine, I was kind of sad. Eight years later, I've still got the same machine, and it's still like hitting an off switch when I put it on. I only average about 4.5 hours' sleep during the week, but it's turbocharged. My AHI seldom crosses 2.0 and I can see exactly what I'm doing via SleepyHead. Best decision I've made health-wise, except maybe kicking sugared soda. Edit: it also let me drop my hypertension prescription to the minimum dose. |