sleep study

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Well y'all,

I am off for my sleep study in a few hours. I just wanted to thank everyone

who responded with their experiences.

Not having any " appropriate " sleep wear, I took myself off to Lane

today and bought the cutest PJ's---red flannel scrub pant types, with little

black kitties all over them, and a red sleep T, with the little black kitty

in the center. The coolest part though, is the construction of the pants

makes them easy to wear post op and eventually take in!

Ru

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Joann

Yeah, what Bruce said. I had 3 overnight studies in a sleep clinic and 4-5

overnight oximeter studies at home. One without oxygen or CPAP. One with

oxygen. One with CPAP. The final upshot (after about a month and a half) was

the sleep doctor put me on a variable auto adjust CPAP (there is a BIPAP option

too) with the recommendation to bleed in two liters of O2 at night. My

pulmo-dude said the O2 was not necessary, but I have copies of the tests and the

sleep doctor flat out told me it wasn't mandatory, but there were times when she

would feel better if I used the additional 2 liters. I have taken the middle

road. If I am not feeling well, or have had some bad days, or the air quality

is down, then I will plug in the additional O2. Like so many things with this

disease, there is a moving target and you have to be able to roll with the

punches and get to know yourself and how your body works. Just take it in

stride... you will be fine.

Stefani 61 year old Utahn

LD 2/2006, NSIP (fibrotic) 10/2009, Diabetes II 2/2006, Severe Sleep Apnea

4/2009

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> > I am really confused now! I went Sun night for a sleep study. I

> already had a sleep study in 7/08, I have a CPAP already. In July of

> this year I went on o2. At that time I asked my Dr. if I needed to use

> o2 with my CPAP his answer was NO. I even asked again after some of you

> told me that I should be, again he said no. I just went to a new Dr.

> last week and I asked him if I should be using o2 with my CPAP and he

> say YES.

> > Well I went for another sleep study, at a different place from last

> year. They started out the night without o2 or the CPAP, at 1:30 I got

> up to go to the bathroom. The tech told me that she didn't think that

> they were going to put the CPAP on at all. Well they didn't either all

> night. My question now is do I not need the o2 at night, or the CPAP?

> I called my Dr. yesterday to ask him, I was told that results wouldn't

> be back for 2 weeks and to use both until he gets the results.

> >

> > The thing that I really HATE about this disease is that two different

> Dr. will give two different treatments. Why can't Dr's get with the

> same program.

> >

> > JoAnn MI 53 UIP 9/07

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