Saturday, April 5, 2008

Sleep Study Results!

Well I got the Sleep Final Report, and though I don't understand a word of it, here are some highlights (aside from one typo I found):
  • Time in Bed (TIB): 415 min.
  • Total Sleep Time (TST): 386 min.
  • Sleep Efficiency: 93.0%  (this is pretty impressive for a creative)
  • # inter sleep/wake: 3.9%
  • REM Onset: 120.5 min
And then:
  • Wake During Sleep: 15.5
  • Total Wake Time: 29.0 (must've been when they brought in the mask)
  • % wake: 7.0
  • Total number of leg movements: 0  (i suppose this means I don't have restless leg syndrome)
  • EKG: no abnormalities
Now, I don't want to be too impersonal, but I did find mention of spontaneous arousals, which I don't know if it means wake-ups due to breathing or arousals, in the, you know... French sense. So until I know what that means, I won't be sharing those numbers.

The study is actually broken up into sections so there's too much detail to report, but I will share that my sleep efficiency broke the 90's in every section and I can only assume this is very very good. 

There's mention of the CPAP phase (when they woke me up to put on that nose/air mask to see how I would do) and that also seem to go well, earning me "Patient tolerated the procedure well."

More later.


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