Pam,
Good luck in returning to work. Did you get over the sleepiness you mentioned after stopping a med?

Waves,
Thanks for the good vibes with the sleep doc.
I sort of remember that Fish oil can help with cholesterol. Maybe the mayo clinic site says that. Pracititioners of Non Western medicine say that our lab ranges in the US are too tight -- that higher cholesterol is good.


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Visit with sleep doc was ok.

I had a little over 2 hours of sleep and just enough data for him to say that I have moderate sleep apnea.

He demonstrated how the machine works and the three categories of masks he has.
Hubby got very interested when the doc was talking about machines and tubing and such and even tried to pick out what seemed like the best mask. (Doc said that that was not for him to decide but for me to decide!)

Sleep doc said that I did not grind my teeth.
That is good to know.
I think that stupid mouth guard I wore for a while kind of cured that. But now I am wearing braces. So I can think of wearing the braces (thanks to the guard) as the price I am paying to get rid of the grinding.


I started crying when I asked him if the second sleep study (to determine pressure and find a mask that is comfortable) is going to be as horrible as the first one. Short answer: yes.

In order to make me slightly less miserable, he can schedule me later the next time: arrive at midnight, sleep around 2:00 am, . . . .

The way he treated his staff in front of me confirmed my feelings from my other visit with him that he is a bully. He was bossy / nasty with them about chair arrangements in one of the rooms and something else not hugely important. -- kind of explains the emotional atmosphere in his lab at night. He's a perfectionist.

I made an appointment for the second sleep study two weeks from now.


M.