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Sleep apnea study

Nov 30, 2009

I had my sleep apnea study done on Friday November 27th. Wasn't sure what to expect out of it all so I went into it with an open mind and said a little prayer before hand, if I do have sleep apnea or any problems now is the time for them to show up.
Got to the clinic and had to fill out some paperwork. He then told me he had to hook about 25 things up to me. I didn't realize it was that much.
I had 2 probes on each one of my calf muscles, he said that was to see if I move when I sleep, I had two bands around me, one around by my belly button and one above my chest to monitor my breathing, had one on each shoulder to watch my heart rate, had one behind each one of my ears, one on the sides of both of my eyes, one on the both sides of my mouth, one on the both sides of my chin, think about 5-6 on my head. And then two breathing type tubes placed under my nose. Wow I felt like Frankenstein! We had to calibrate and make sure all was working ok, so I had to open my eyes, close my eyes, blink my eyes, "snore", move my legs, hold my breathe and a few other things. Once all was ok it was time for me to sleep.
I don't do well sleeping in new places, I can sleep but I don't get that good deep sleep that you normally do. I tried to relax myself as much as I could so I could fall asleep. Now mind you my sinus', allergies and whatever else this is has been acting up bad for the last week, I have coughing spells at night and have issues breathing, my lungs were so congested. I let him know that before hand and warned him I would probably wake up coughing. Sure enough around the same time as usual around 2am I woke up, coughing over and over again for like an hour and he came in and asked if I was ok and needed help, he seen I was struggling. Nothing he could really do about it. So after 2 hrs of coughing, struggling to breathe I dozed off again but it was a light sleep. He got me up at 6am and unhooked me.
I went into the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror and felt like Mary in the movie There's something about Mary when she used his "gel", my hair was so gunked up with the sticky stuff they use to stick the probes I had to giggle a bit. The tech didn't mention to me of anything so I don't know how to read how well the test went. To me it didn't go well and I am a bit concerned but I hope they take into consideration that I am congested. I will find out at my next doctor's appointment.
I did buy some Mucinex on the way home, it has helped a little bit but I am still congested.
So now just to wait and see what the results are and if this congestion clears up if not I need to talk to my doctor about it.
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The start of my journey

Nov 23, 2009

After years of battling with my weight and years of struggling with this diet, that diet, this program, that program I have come to the conclusion that what I am trying is not working anymore and I need to seek help elsewhere. I have been doing gastric bypass research on and off for a few years now, guess at first it was just curiosity, then it became a "wish", I figured it was too expensive, I was honestly embarrassed that I would need surgery to help me lose weight.

But now its so much different in the way I am thinking. I have exhausted every method that I can think of under the sun, ok not each and every but too many to name and count and keep track of. And nothing is working. I have come to the conclusion that I either live like this the rest of my life or do something about it. I can't live like this the rest of my life. I refuse to live like this. If people really knew how miserable I was inside they would be shocked, if everyone knew what I really weighed they would be shocked. I hide it all. But I can't anymore, I can't do this anymore, I am so unhappy, I can't even look at myself in the mirror anymore. I look at myself and wonder how any one would want to be around me or how my husband can even make love to me, because what I see is disgusting. I am not wanting to be stick skinny like a model, I just want to be healthy, even if I lost 100lbs that would make me so happy, to be under 200lbs would make me so happy. I know at this point I need an extra "tool" to help me along.

After having my son he has brought out a new motivation in me, something to look at and want to make changes, I want to be there for him thru out his life, I don't want to be the fat mom sitting on the bench at the park, I want to be the mom chasing my little boy around. I want to do this for myself but for him as well. He deserves to have a healthy mom that is going to be around.

The beginning of November is when it all began to really hit me hard. I was becoming so depressed and withdrawn from everyone. I had to stand up for myself and do something about it, stop the pity party. I checked into some weight loss surgery seminars, after reading on numerous gastric bypass websites that seemed the place to start. There are so many surgeons to choose from I was overwhelmed.

The seminar was really good and informative. Learned a lot. The surgeon basically gave us a check list of things we need to do in order before having surgery. I had already checked with my insurance and knew I needed to complete 6 months of being observed by my primary doctor before insurance would even consider approving me. At the time I had no primary doctor, only doctor I had was my ob-gyn when I was pregnant with Gage. So off hunting I went to that too! A lot of the primary doctors I called wouldn't help me with my process. So I went and used one of the referral doctors the surgeon gave us.

Had my first appointment with Dr. Burns my "new" primary doctor on November 18th. Was a basic first visit, fill out paperwork and get to know you and your background type thing. She took down a bunch of information and of course me after I leave the office I think of more questions! I gave her my "printed out" medical history from my doctor in MN. She read thru it and asked me about Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, I had seen it on there but was never informed I should be concerned. After talking over what it is and the symptoms I basically have almost every one and it pretty much sounds like I have it. Plus I knew my thyroid is underactive but haven't been on meds in awhile. So the first visit was good, she gave me a script for some meds for the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and the next visit we are going to do a bunch of labs which by then I am sure I will be on thyroid meds as well. She wants to do a sleep apnea study on me as well to be safe. So I am waiting on a call to get that set up.

Today I found out that the surgeon I had picked out is in my out of network for my insurance so I can't use him, darn I really liked him, I have a few others picked out so I need to get in touch with them to make sure they are in my network for insurance.

So here begins my journey to a new healthier me.
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06/17/2010
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