lookie on this site for Dr Javaheri, that Mike is going to see: i just remembered seeing it yesterday.
behind him, see the screens? the one with the multicolored lines is a multiple readout of all the wires and sensors attached to the patient. it is a surprisingly tangible look at spikes of breathing, leg tremors, periods of not breathing that look like a "flat line", blood oxygen percentage, rapid eye movement (REM) which is a feature in dreaming.
when my 3rd daughter was only 6 i manned the control room all night during her sleep study. they let me watch, explained the readouts as things were happening, we could see and hear her on monitors.
in the morning the tech ripped me off a 3 foot section of paper, printed with every second for 3 hours of the multicolored lines, spikes, flat lines, changing blood oxygen and respiration and all, with the printed results in text: interruptions per hour, REM onset times, the total works.
the tech said, youre not supposed to have this.
when you ask your doctor for sleep study records, for your own files, he gives you a memo from the sleep lab "physician" (they are not regulated, and the privately owned lab may just have a businessman who learned to work the machines, i presume any competent primary care physician would insist that at least the interpretation of sleep testing data be made by SOME m.d. SOMEWHERE.) the memo in your doctor's possession is an analysis, and a referral opinion.
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the memo in your doctor's possession is an analysis, and a referral opinion.
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so you can go directly to the sleep lab or hospital where you were tested; in hospitals, the sleep labs rent space in some dark and quiet unused part of the property or building, sometimes without hallway and stair lighting, without air conditioning, without hot water (for that shower you MUST have between the overnight and the MSLT, to get the yuk out of your hair before they put on new electro sensors).
hospitals do not run sleep labs, no matter how they all try to gain respectability by association.
so you finally get to where your sleep lab "results" are, because you have a right to them, and they give you a printed page of someone's opinion.
none of the actual data are visible or available to you OR your doctors. the lab owns them and will not release or discuss them.
if you have any misgivings about results and your dx, because of what they say the sleep lab shows, hold someone accountable. the labs are expensive, and a hassle, and your treatment hangs too much on them.