Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by Dior: my friend has to go to a sleep clinic to test for sleep apnea – what should he expect?

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Answer by Live_For_Today
There’s really not much they can do and usually the final outcome is that they will tell him/her they need to sleep with oxygen and mask through the night.
A cheaper way of over coming this problem if all would like to know and that is sew in a pocket on the ( back ) of your friends PJ top, then when he goes to go to bed, place a tennis ball or a ball abit smaller and hard into the pocket. This stops the person from lying on their back and stops them from snoring, plus allowing them to have a good night sleep because they stay on their side.

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Question by B: I am having sleep apnea treatment soon. What can I expect to feel like after CPAP or surgery?

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Answer by belgianlady
After CPAP treatment, the apnea-hypopnea index is lower, and mean lowest SaO2 higher than before treatment. After CPAP, patients are more bradycardic, blood pressure and its standard deviation decreased as SaO2 improved in non-REM stage 2 sleep, and BRS increased (nocturnal wakefulness: +59%; non-REM stage 2 sleep: +68% over pretreatment values). Baroreflex dysfunction in OSAS may be at least partly accounted for by nocturnal intermittent hypoxemia, and can be reversed by long-term CPAP treatment.

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Whats the recovery time and will there be scars like in my nose?

what if i cant sleep because of all the weird machines atached to me and the weird environment? what are u suppsoed to bring? what if you have to pee in the middle of the night? are there ppl monitoring you in the night or just machines?

I’ve been given this overnight appointment with no info so I don’t know what to expect at all. Can anyone advise please and does anyone out there have experience of sleep apnea?