Weird and Very Energetic Day?

brackstone · Post by **brackstone** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:58 pm

Last night I fell asleep for two hours off my Apena machine. I was very tired and did the "I'll just rest my eyes for a second" and woke up, then I stayed up for a while, went back to bed, and got about 3 or 4 hours of sleep.

Now today, I haven't had ANY sleepy spells. Usually around 12 - 3 PM I start getting really tired. However today I only had some mild sleepy spells, nothing very serious at all.

I wish I could look at my data lol, this is quite puzzling to me

Could it be the fact that it's very sunny? Or is there a chance that I had a really awesome 3 or 4 hours of sleep? Will I probably crash when I get home?

tangents · Post by **tangents** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:17 pm

Brackstone,

This brings up something I've been wondering about. Can a person have apneas in only certain sleep stages? Could you have apneas only in REM sleep, in which case you could pass the first few sleep cycles apnea-free? If this were your case, it would explain your "phenomenon". I'll be watching to see the responses to your post - very interesting!

In any case, I hope you have a GREAT DAY!

AmoRanas · Post by **AmoRanas** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:24 pm

When I had my sleep study I would only have hypopneas during REM. It made me think that maybe I have a different kind of disorder with regards to my brain. ???

brackstone · Post by **brackstone** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:24 pm

Tangents,

It's interesting you mentioned that.

The sleep study results were explained to me that I was prevented from Entering REM I believe.

They basically told me, and now I wish I remembered, that I only had Apneas when I hit a certain stage of sleep.

They said that it explains my mental foggieness and achey bones and the feeling like I'm always running on adrenaline. They said that if I was missing out on the other type of sleep it would be a lot worse.

Something to that effect, I guess I'll ask them for a copy of my sleep study and post it on here.

brackstone · Post by **brackstone** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:29 pm

Surpsingly my doctors office was very polite about me getting a copy of my study. They said just come over and sign a release.

I'm also getting another copy of my Medical Alert Card since my old one is out of date.

My new one says Auto Bi-Pap 5 Low 10 High.

I'll try to pickup my report on monday and scan and post