Sleep apnea consultation.......?

Question

What usually happens at a cosulation for "sleep apnea". I have problems breathing at night, and I wake up sometimes gasping for air ! It doesn't happen every night. Also if the doctor does order a sleep test, what if my breathing is fine that night, is there any other way they can tell I might have a sleeping problem if it doesn't happen "Every Night" THANKS SO MUCH!

Answer 1

i had mine done and when i was at my worst, i could fall asleep standing on my head, so the wires were a cakewalk. they measure your blood oxygen level. mine dropped to just above 50% in an hour or two then they woke me up. then they fit me for a c pap mask then(they should have done this BEFORE i went to sleep,but anyway i was scary as h*ll for the 1st 2 weeks with my cpap bc thats alot of air blowing into your nose and i used to wake up daze feeling like a hurricane was going across my face. but after the 2 wks, i slept sooooo soundly i wouldnt move all night, i swear. from waking up every 20 minutes to sleeping all night and not moving was almost like being reborn again. its been 8 yrs for me now and my little cpap machine has seen every vacation, every hospital stay or every nap for that matter in that time. dont be afraid to0 be checked. it just might save your life, it did mine

Answer 2

I cant tell you exactally what happens if you have a hospital stay for the monitoring but i can tell you how they did my sons 1st and 2nd test

Kesler was 2 weeks old when we had his first one done a lady came to my house and he had to do a 24 hour monitoring becasue he was so young and slept all the time they hooked up 4 machines to him the first was a machine that counted heartbeats and breaths per minute. The second was a little scensor that went under his nose to see where he was doing most of his breathing from his nose or mouth while he was sleeping. The third was a pulse ox monitor attached to his toe and the 4th was a machine that recorded what the other 3 were doing.

The next day the lady came back and took all but the first machine which we had to use until we got the readings back which took a few days 2 or 3 maybe and after we found out he had sleep apnia we had to use it all the time. All we had to do was once a day we would hook 2 new sticky pads to his chest (the kind they use in the hospital that they monitor your heart with) that each had a lead on it that pluged into a cord hooked to the machine and plug them in each time he fell asleep and if he quit breathing for more than 20 seconds the machine sounded (a horrible squealing noise much like a very loud smoke detector) most time it was emough to jar him to get him breathing again sometime we would have to totally wake him up

After a year and 4 months of the machine not going off we repeated the testing but since he was older we only had to do it night while he was sleeping and then return the monitor once it want needed anymore

I think that whne they do the testing they go by how long you go between breaths when your in the deepest sleep becasue during out first testing he never went more than 17 seconds but they dont want to se it go mare than 11 or 14 so he was put it on it and once he was on it we could make out his daily patterns that were gonna set it off at night like being awake more than usual or haveing a very active day which in return messed with his sleep habits

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Sleep apnea happens every night, but you don't wake up enough to realize it in most cases. In the consultation you will be asked several questions to determine if a sleep study is needed.
In the sleep study, you will have a bunch of little wires stuck to your head, face, arms and legs, and you will sleep in a hotel-like room while your nerve impulses, breathing, and physical activity are monitored and recorded. You may need a second sleep study to evaluate and adjust treatment options.

Sleep apnea occurs when your throat relaxes enough during sleep to collapse and close completely during sleep. The usual treatment is device that pressurizes the air that you breathe and keeps the throat "inflated".

Even if you don't have sleep apnea, the study may indicate other sleep disorders.

Answer 4

sleep apnoea is when you totally stop breathing.The first signs of this are.\
1 you will become very tired, and have no energy.

I went for the sleep apnoea consultation. They wire your head with plugs, sounds awful, but is not then they monitor you for the whole night and you get the results the next morning. I did not have sleep apnoea, and am on oxygen for emphysema