DurocShark
Lifer
They better have a @#%^& pillowtop mattress with a friggin mint on my pillow!
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I have a deviated septum (and cleft palate that I never thought about. Teeth and speech are fine so I never really noticed), and my sleeping has been getting progressively worse. To the point where I'm lucky to get 5 hours a night, and I snore like a gang of lumberjacks. I occasionally wake up gasping too.
Dr said the insurance requires the sleep study to prove that I am affected by the septum before surgery. Go figure. "Let's spend more money to prove we need to spend even more!"
UPDATE @5:45am:
Well, I'm back. I think I slept less than usual.
They taped sensors to just under and above my eyes, my chest, my legs, my chin (I have a beard, that was fun), my head, then they stuck a flow meter in my nose. Bah! Couldn't sleep for crap.
Then, to top it off, at 2am, after finally falling asleep, they come in and wake me up to put a CPAP on. They started with just the nose one, but I couldn't breathe. My sinuses locked down tight, and when you're half awake it triggers a panic response. So they replaced it with a full face mask. That whistled. They brought 3 different ones in to find one that didn't whistle. No luck.
I managed to get back to sleep with the whistle but I'll bet they had to listen to that whistle all night in the monitoring room. Bleh.
5am: Wake up! RRRRIIIIPPPPPPP!!!! (sound of tape being ripped off my legs and chest)
Fill out this form and you're free to go.
Right. No coffee, no smoke, and I'm supposed to fill out this @#%&^ form? Sheesh.
Now I got grease in my hair and beard from the sensors. After pounding a couple cups of coffee I'm getting in the shower to clean up.
😉
I have a deviated septum (and cleft palate that I never thought about. Teeth and speech are fine so I never really noticed), and my sleeping has been getting progressively worse. To the point where I'm lucky to get 5 hours a night, and I snore like a gang of lumberjacks. I occasionally wake up gasping too.
Dr said the insurance requires the sleep study to prove that I am affected by the septum before surgery. Go figure. "Let's spend more money to prove we need to spend even more!"
UPDATE @5:45am:
Well, I'm back. I think I slept less than usual.
They taped sensors to just under and above my eyes, my chest, my legs, my chin (I have a beard, that was fun), my head, then they stuck a flow meter in my nose. Bah! Couldn't sleep for crap.
Then, to top it off, at 2am, after finally falling asleep, they come in and wake me up to put a CPAP on. They started with just the nose one, but I couldn't breathe. My sinuses locked down tight, and when you're half awake it triggers a panic response. So they replaced it with a full face mask. That whistled. They brought 3 different ones in to find one that didn't whistle. No luck.
I managed to get back to sleep with the whistle but I'll bet they had to listen to that whistle all night in the monitoring room. Bleh.
5am: Wake up! RRRRIIIIPPPPPPP!!!! (sound of tape being ripped off my legs and chest)
Fill out this form and you're free to go.
Right. No coffee, no smoke, and I'm supposed to fill out this @#%&^ form? Sheesh.
Now I got grease in my hair and beard from the sensors. After pounding a couple cups of coffee I'm getting in the shower to clean up.
