This morning I found out my sleep study results.
Honestly going into this appointment I was really nervous. The hardest part was over, the actual sleep study, but finding out the results from a test is kind of always nerve racking.
So I got called in and sat in a room and waited for the PA. She was actually really, really nice and her name was Jennifer as well so easy to remember.
She was like let me know you your test results, it was a lot of charts. I felt weird asking to take a picture of them so I will show you my fit bit tracking of my sleep because it shows the same thing on a much more dumbed down level, as it doesn't track a quarter of the amount that a sleep study does.
The first chart, is the one from January 9th- the night of my sleep study. All of red lines are were I am "waking up" but really those are were I am gasping myself awake when I start breathing again.
The Chart below, is from the other night January 24th. With just as many if not more red lines from where I am gasping myself awake.
Needless to say the PA told me that I stop breathing between 8-10 times an hour, which is mild sleep apnea. The "normal" person stops breathing 5 times or less an hour and that would not be considered sleep apnea. So I'm almost doubled that.
The PA really took the stigma out of sleep apnea, around 92% of the population has sleep apnea whether they know it or not. She also told me that C-pap machines after about 2 weeks of use I will start sleeping significantly better and have much more energy throughout the day. Which thank god because I'm exhausted like 85% of the time.
I was excited like okayyy give me my c-pap machine. But now we wait again. The prescription for my C-pap machine (I'm totally going to name that thing!!) goes to a home health company, one right here in my town so I don't need to go an hour for another appointment.
So the Home health office will contact me within the next week or so to set up an appointment for me to get fitted for the mask that I choose and to get me all set up with my machine.
So as I sit here at work writing this, I play the waiting game to get my machine and start breathing better during sleep, and sleeping better! I will definitely write a follow up to this after getting my C-Pap machine and sleeping with it and what not.
In writing this blog I really like to de-stigmatize things and write my feelings and how I felt throughout the process so that anyone interested in these things or anyone having to go through these things for the first time can feel less stressed because alot of other people have been through this and any reassurance I can provide or any support that this may give someone I'm happy for.
As always if you have any questions or want to talk about this blog or anything that I have written about please feel free to email me at jlpm0822@gmail.com or comment below at the bottom of the page!!