Let’s hope today is better than yesterday.
This post is for casual conversation if you don’t feel like making a post of your own.
Let’s hope today is better than yesterday.
This post is for casual conversation if you don’t feel like making a post of your own.
Sorry for the delayed reply, I usually don’t hop on lemmy over the weekends.
It was definitely disruptive to my sleep, but I think I still got a few hours that they could use. The technician hooked up wires to each leg, several on my torso, and about six more on my scalp. I woke up in the middle of the night, which usually happens, and tossed and turned so much that the wires started coming loose. The technician had to come untangle me and helped me find a comfortable position. They also brought in a fan, which helped a lot.
My appointment to go over the results isn’t for another seven weeks. Hopefully my sleep was poor enough that I do get something to help me sleep better.
Ah. That’s unfortunate. Also when I did mine it was a take home kit, so I didn’t even have someone to help adjust it even if that would have improved things. Hopefully things work out for you!
I actually did a take-home sleep test a few months ago, but since my results were >5 breathing disruptions an hour they said that I didn’t qualify for further testing or treatment. A colleague of mine told me to check out a different sleep doctor, one that wasn’t affiliated with a large medical network, so I did.
That doctor took one look at the results of the at-home study and realized what happened, because it happens all the time. The network-affiliated clinic that I went to used insurance industry guidelines, but the guidelines set by actual medical sleep specialists said that I am closer to 10 interruptions an hour, and qualified me for an in-lab study.
In short, the American medical system is a racket ran by insurance companies, and it prioritizes profit over positive outcomes. Which we all know already, but what is to be done about it?
Whatever it is, we better do it soon. Chop Chop