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"24 hr" sleep study - ZZOMA belt?
Have anybody ever had one of these? It's not actually 24 hours, but it is an overnight study combined with a daytime sleepiness study. I went in at 8 pm, they wired me up and I did the miserable overnight test, like I'd had 5 times before. The "new" part was that they woke me up at 6 am, then had me take naps every 2 hours - 8 am, 10 am, noon, 2 pm & 4 pm. They measure how long it takes you to fall asleep (if you do) and then they wake you up after 20 minutes. My daytime sleepiness has been horrible. I fell asleep for each one of the naps. I took me anywhere from 1.5 minutes to 7.5 minutes to fall asleep. This isn't counting the multiple times I dozed off in between "official" naps. That is scary for me.
I went in for my follow up yesterday. The night study actually showed that I was "asleep" 70% of the time, so they say. I was very frustrated because I feel like hell all of the time and I'm obviously too tired during the day to function well.
Get this... the doc has decided to take me OFF CPAP. He brought out this belt thing that was called a ZZOMA. It looks like a weight belt with a big hard foam block attached to it. Supposedly you wear this thing around your torso. The foam pad is supposed to keep you from being able to roll onto your back, where I have the most trouble breathing... the hope is I will stay on my side, where I don't have the same problems.
Has anyone else tried one of these ZZOMA things? The doc didn't give me one. He recommended that I go online to get one. They are 70 bucks. There's something similar called a Rem A Tee (sp?) that is over 80 bucks. I think I could make one for a fraction of that cost.
Any thoughts on the ramblings of a mad man?
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Permalink Reply by Crabby Appleton on
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I like to sleep on my right side, but I have learned to tolerate my left side. I try to stay on my side, but I am sure that I end up on my back occasionally. Like I said before, I don't have $85-100 that I can drop on a ZZOMA belt, so I am going to try and make something similar.
I am planning to get a copy of the study. I be completely honest, when I was in the doc's office last week, I was so drowsy and "out of it" that I forgot to ask. I took my wife with me because I knew I would not be able to remember everything the doc said.
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Permalink Reply by Stacy Creighton on
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Crabby, how did you net out? Did you buy the Zzoma? I heard you can get reimbursed through your insurance for it.
Crabby Appleton said:I like to sleep on my right side, but I have learned to tolerate my left side. I try to stay on my side, but I am sure that I end up on my back occasionally. Like I said before, I don't have $85-100 that I can drop on a ZZOMA belt, so I am going to try and make something similar.
I am planning to get a copy of the study. I be completely honest, when I was in the doc's office last week, I was so drowsy and "out of it" that I forgot to ask. I took my wife with me because I knew I would not be able to remember everything the doc said.
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