You're still sleep. This is doctor. We've been trying to reach you. Time to wake up.
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
92 points (98.9% liked)
No Stupid Questions
35027 readers
1670 users here now
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I'm sorry Dr. Wesker I've decided to live here full-time. Please notify my family.
Your insurance isn't going to cover. Our technicians have alerted the dream police. You must be victed.
My boss has sleep apnea and did a sleep study. It turns out he was having roughly 80 episodes an hour where he stopped breathing. They also found that his heart rate was jumping up to 135 bpm during these episodes, as well as his cortisol levels rising way above normal.
I would say it is probably good to know the severity of the condition, as it might be good to know how treatment might need to be. Having your heart rate spike like that is not good, and it means that he will have more monitoring and checking in with his doctor as he adjusts to and uses his CPAP machine.
80 episodes an hour? That's gotta be a typo, right?
If it lasts only a second or so before the body self-corrects, that's slightly more than once per minute.
According to him, it was in fact 80 per hour. Definitely sounds crazy.
In the past I remember feeling my heart racing whilst asleep (in a dream?) I am not sure if I should check for sleep apnea
I would check on it if you are concerned. It can't hurt to check and if you find something that needs to be addressed, now you know and can work on fixing it.
Do you snore?
No, but I have a habit of grinding my teeth at night
Sleep apnea, of course, but any other abnormalities in the expected “pattern” of sleep. The typical pattern is a specific amount of relaxation and various brainwave activity over time. If you spend too long or too little time in one of those phases is may indicate some medical or psychological issues that can usually be treated and/or cured to help you wake up refreshed like everyone is “supposed” to for a longer, better life.
They usually look for how long you're in each stage of sleep, how well you oxygenate, heart patterns, and awakenings. All of these things, if not working correctly, cause us to get poor sleep and lose grey matter in our brain.
Apnea is really about oxygen delivery which can be hindered by something like our tongue, or our chest (obstructive sleep apnea), or even our brain not communicating properly (called central sleep apnea).
We can also have arm and leg twitching which wakes us up. Heart issues can play a role as well. There are others but I can't remember them off the top of my head right now.
My daughter was born extremely prematurely and needed oxygen for a while. Sleep, especially REM sleep (which is actually one of the "shallower" stages of sleep) is where blood oxygen is generally lowest. Therefore, we had to do a sleep study (just monitoring blood oxygen and heart rate) to make sure her lungs were developed enough to go off of oxygen day and night.
I'm assuming your lungs are pretty well-developed, but if you have something going on that may impede your blood oxygen levels, there is that at least.
That sounds rough. How is she doing now?
MUCH better, thanks! She's 18 months old now and still a little developmentally delayed (even accounting for her prematurity) but off oxygen, not needing nearly as many medicines, becoming a lot more interested in food not from a bottle, and just becoming a fun baby.
Pretty terrifying when she was born at 1 pound 4 ounces (580 grams) though
When I did my sleep study the doctor told me that it takes a long time to analyse the data because there's a lot of it. So a cursory glance is usually not enough to see everything.
Sleep apnea is apparently the most common cause of issues. My doc also said there are other possible causes but I can't remember what he said (or if he listed any others at all).
I had one earlier this year for similar reasons. I was diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia, which depending on who you ask, is very similar if not the same as narcolepsy without cataplexy. I hope your results give you some warranted info.
Why on Earth could they not tell the patienr what the results were?
They don't have the results immediately, the data needs to be analyzed.