My bed...
The TV, above which is a camera...
More monitoring equipment beside the bed...
After an hour of pottering around in my room, (I crocheted), Mark then took me to another room where he attached leads to my legs, abdomen, chest and lots of leads were attached to my head. Then it was back to my room where the leads were attached to the piece of monitoring equipment on the right hand side of the photo above. And then it was time for me to lie down in the bed and go to sleep.
It took a bit longer than normal to get to sleep, and I woke a few times during the night when Mark came in...obviously an alarm triggered at his post when a lead kept coming loose for some reason.
Then at 5.15 am, the lights came on and the leads were all removed. They had taken over half an hour to attach but very little time to take them off! I showered, dressed and had breakfast and then waited around until 8.30 when I had an appointment with one of the specialist doctors, who would give me the sleep study results.
Apparently I didn't snore loudly during the night...just a soft snuffling sort of noise. But Dr P showed me the various graphs of readings taken in the night which showed that I have severe sleep apnea. I actually had more episodes of stopping breathing that DH, but for shorter periods. DH stopped breathing for anything up to 58 seconds, but the longest interval for me was only 30 seconds. As my late mother was fond of saying, 'You could have knocked me over with a feather' when Dr P told me the results. I have had high blood pressure since I was 17... Tests had never identified why. Dr P said there was a high probability that sleep apnea was involved. After all this time he warned that treatment now probably can't reverse that condition. But hey! If I'm lucky it might make a difference to the level of medication.
So...for 4 weeks I'm hiring and using one of these...a CPAP machine...
Hers...
His...
But my mask just fits over the nose area...not a full face mask like DH's.
5 comments:
Oh, I hope the machine helps even a little with your blood pressure also - a great little bonus that would be. It is so good that you are seeing benefits so soon. Good luck with it all.
Nice that they gave you a model with a bit of purple on it - PS - love the beddign fabric too.
Good news that it is helpling already.
Was it a relief to hear you only snuffled lightly? Shame about the apnea though, it's good you're on to it and it's helping already. Would be good if you and DH could take some selfies, side by side, with your new night accessories on *naughty grin*
I hope your new apparatus leads to a better night's sleep. It seems to get more and more elusive the older we get, doesn't it?
It seems to me as exactly same maskina as mine, unfortnattly I take it of almost every night.take care Jaana
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