BleepingBeauty wrote:Enchanter wrote:Patient's split night study failed on 4/25/15.
Physical Interpretation: Unsuccessful overnight polysomnogram with markedly low sleep efficiency with the need for a repeat study with sedation
This patient with signs and symptoms consistent with the diagnosis of sleep apnea would benefit from a full overnight polysomnogram with the use of sedation. As such the patient should be sedated approximately 15 to 30 mg of Restoril on the next attempt of his study. He would also benefit from a mask desensitization prior to the study.
CPAP pressure of 8,9, 10, 11, and 12 cmh20 were tested. Complex apnea was noted during titration.
If the interpretation of the study done in April suggested another study WITH SEDATION, why all the hand-wringing over whether or not to take a sleep aid? Several people here suggested that you do just that, but you never seem to listen to anyone. Why, exactly, are you here on the forum? You ask a million questions, and the answers that are offered are repeatedly ignored by you.
COMPLEX APNEA probably indicates that you'll need a more sophisticated machine than the one you had donated to you, but USING SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN USING NOTHING. Use the damned machine, FFS.
MASK DESENSITIZATION could very easily have been accomplished before your most recent study. Many posters here encouraged you to wear the mask and use the machine during the day, while relaxed in front of the tv or while reading, so you could get used to it. But that never happened.
You've been on this forum for almost three months now and haven't gotten very far. Have you bothered to read ANYthing in the archives? There are many thousands of posts and tons of information to be gleaned for whatever issue you have around apnea and its treatment. Do you think you're the ONLY one who's ever had a problem? (Clue: You're not
that kind of special.) The key to solving an issue is to LEARN about the solution and TAKE THE ADVICE THAT'S GIVEN.
You seem content to wallow in whatever problem you're experiencing and seek sympathy for it. Thus far, you have some people here (way too many, if you ask me) wrapped up in this fruitless drama you bring to the forum, itching to help you and prove (to those of us who [oh, the horror!] question you) that you really ARE this helpless and anxious and needy.
You've proven several times over that you would rather complain or make excuses for everything you AREN'T doing for yourself. So, knock yourself out with the whining about how everyone and everything's against you, the doctor wouldn't prescribe you a sleep aid, the lab sucks and the personnel there are incompetent, they won't give you your reports, you can't make an appointment to see the doctor yet (and on and on and on). And keep sabotaging yourself, too (you took apart the assembled mask you were given and then couldn't put it back together properly for days on end, once again delaying any progress you could have made).
"The sky is falling! Oh, woe is me!" Cry me a river...
Originally, I thought your screen name was a play on the word "enchanting" but I was wrong.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/enchanting
The definition of "enchanter" is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanter
Big difference there. Enchanter is a good screen name for you.
Out of that entire post, you quoted and responded to this part only:
Enchanter wrote:BleepingBeauty wrote:
If the interpretation of the study done in April suggested another study WITH SEDATION, why all the hand-wringing over whether or not to take a sleep aid? Several people here suggested that you do just that, but you never seem to listen to anyone. Why, exactly, are you here on the forum? You ask a million questions, and the answers that are offered are repeatedly ignored by you.
COMPLEX APNEA probably indicates that you'll need a more sophisticated machine than the one you had donated to you, but USING SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN USING NOTHING. Use the damned machine, FFS.
You're wrong. I did take a sleep aid in my last test and the only reason I didn't take one in my 2nd was because the sleep aid came in the mail a day too late and the doctor didn't prescribe me one even though I asked multiple times. It did say that I needed a sleep aid, but I didn't know that until I got the reports. It doesn't matter because I did take the sleep aids as soon as I got them anyways.
When you say a more sophisticated machine, what do you mean?
The thing is I don't know why you get so worked up over me. It's like this. I am who I am and probably aren't going to cater to your standards for a long time, if not ever. It's not like I'm going to change overnight and you're just going to have to deal with it. I only care about getting results. All this other trivial stuff that goes on in this forum, like all this fighting, is very superfluous and uninteresting to me. But hey, if u wanna keep knocking me, go right on ahead. I can't change you either, so it goes both ways right? At the end of the day, I don't care if you waste your time. I do what I do, you do you.
Always with the excuses.
What about the rest of what I said to you? Did you do ANYthing to desensitize yourself to the mask so that your latest sleep study would go more easily? Lots of people here advised you to do that, but you blew it off. I'll say one thing for you: You're consistent. (Consistently unwilling to help yourself in any way.)
You want results, huh? They don't happen with magic; they happen because we do whatever it takes to MAKE them happen. Do you think it hurts me in any way if you don't "cater to (my) standards?" I couldn't care less. What you do (or don't, more accurately) doesn't affect me at all; it only annoys me (and others, I'm sure) because I'm a member of this forum who's being assaulted by your constant bullshit and refusal to take any responsibility for yourself.
Why do I (and others, most of whom I'm sure remain silent, as I did for a long time with you) get so worked up? Because you're wasting everyone's time, running in circles with your hair on fire, starting thread after thread with (unanswerable) questions that seek to find a way to permanently fix your apnea in some other way, and you gloss over and/or excuse YOUR OWN behavior in this mess. You said above, "I don't care if you waste your time." That says it all. People come to this forum for help in sorting it all out, and you've gotten a bigger share of that help than anyone I can recall in my six years here. But you don't listen. THAT'S why people get "worked up."
You also haven't done any research to find your own answers. There's plenty of wisdom and experience on this site, and you've been here for nearly three months now; you'll read YouTube comments (of all things), but you don't read anything that can actually help you that's posted right here?
You KNEW you needed something to help you sleep, but you moaned and groaned on here, worrying (in yet another long-assed thread) about taking one; you could've had the results of that sleep study from April in your hand (and posted here) since early May, long before your most recent test, BUT YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO OBTAIN IT before now. You said, "I've asked, and they won't give it to me." Countless people here told you you had a right to your study reports under the law, no matter what the results said; but no, you couldn't get them because everyone ELSE was being difficult. Right.
I don't know how many times you've posted, "It's not my fault!" No, it's never you. Blame everyone and everything else. Even the people here who have bent over backwards to help you have had their advice ignored. So who's zoomin' who here?
Again, I repeat: YOU'VE DONE NOTHING TO HELP YOURSELF. Nobody here (or elsewhere) can do it FOR you. It's as simple as that.
Oh, and as to the probable need for a more sophisticated machine? There's NFW I'm going down THAT road with you... Again, why aren't you using the machine you already have? (I wish that wasn't a rhetorical question.)