Screening for sleep disorders, fatigue etc

There is some newer technology available to perform these sleep studies in the home.
http://www.sonomat.com/solutions/

Hi Jenny, I'm familiar with CPAP although I don't use it as I don't snore. The Sonomat is the brainchild of Professor Colin Sullivan, Head of Respiratory Medicine at Sydney University who coincidently is also the inventor of CPAP. I was one of the engineers involved in the design of the Sonomat and still have an interest in the technology. I've seen some amazing results from the studies especially in paediatric asthma and heart failure in the elderly. Colin recently completed a two year study involving pre-eclampsia and its relationship to sleep disorders. We can read about it when the paper is published. There is much to be learned from sleep.
Glenn

I have had a couple of sleep tests including what you have described above, no sleep apneoa.
Mine was sleeping deprivation from hypos or fluctuating bloods occurring in rem sleep.
I have never had problems falling asleep, just used to have trouble staying asleep because of the hypos which caused vivid colourful dreams.
I have also had these not so quite nightmarish dreams when running a temperature or feverish.
Since getting control of my blood glucose levels, the, sleep deprivation has lessened dramatically. I still get the odd night due to normal dreams, but my regular sleep patterns are six to seven hours, with pit stops every few hours!

I'm also someone with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. I've been using a CPAP for the past 10 years. It's made a world of difference for me, before I was also exhausted and always waking up with a headache or choking.

I've also made a lot of noises/snored loudly all my life, I suspect I had it many years before I was diagnosed (via a sleep study - halfway through the night, they put a CPAP mask on me and it was the best sleep for years.) . As a child, I had my adenoids out twice (they grew back) for this reason) -that didn't help.

I'm in the very severe range (87 apnea events or near apnea events every hour). I always take my machine with me when I have a medical procedure where I'll be sedated (have to have frequent colonscopies because of family history).

BTW, I wish medical professionals would stop assuming it's solely tied to weight. I had one anaesthesiologist make snarky comments who didn't believe that my throat is smaller than average until she checked it - then she bitterly complained. Fortunately she was just the screening anaesthesiologist the one I got for surgery was much nicer (and told me I wasn't that difficult to intube provided I'm properly positioned.) . I told the snarky anaesthesiologist that even when I've lost weight (75 lbs previously), my numbers did not change at all. I'm losing weight again but don't expect to see a change in numbers.

I have had insomnia for so long now i am use to it. Don't think i have sleep Apnea though. When i say "use to it" doesn't mean it gets any easier, nothing worse then staring at the walls most of the night and finally having a few hours sleep and feeling like garbage the next day.