After work, the only thing most people do most is sleep. So when your sleep sucks, your life sucks. It's a fact.
My sleep has sucked for SIX YEARS. That's a lot of suck. I wake up with a headache and a sore throat. I am tired all day and caffeine is the only thing keeping me awake during the day. I'm up for a nap - any time, any place. For SIX YEARS.
I finally talked to my doctor about it and she sent me over to Lonestar Sleep Diagnostics for a Sleep Test. Which is weird. It's like, "Sleep, ur doin it wrong!"
First of all, they do all the legwork with the insurance. They send you the pre-test paperwork. It's all very efficient.
You show up in your pj's and a very nice person settles you into your "bedroom" and explains how it all works. Then she or he sits you down and starts like sticking things all over you. It took 30-40 minutes and by the time I was done, I had twenty-two wires coming off me. I had to pee, which is hilarious with wires all coming out of your pants and straps across your chest and I couldn't help but walk towards the mirror in the restroom making moaning zombie noises...what? don't look at me like that.
Anyways, then you lay down with an additional three wires (one up your nose, one glowing on your finger) and you are instructed to sleep. This actually wasn't too hard for me. I do toss and turn a lot and ended up ripping off the chest monitor a couple times.
They woke me up around one in the morning and placed some sort of scuba-looking deal on my face. It took me about an hour to get to sleep but once I did....I am seriously getting a little verklempt...
I slept like I can't remember ever sleeping. I woke up without a pounding headache for the first time in SIX YEARS.
I had so much energy that the following night, I was awake until 2:00 A.M. Sleep is the new crack!
Anyways...
I can't remember my attendant/doctor/technician's name, but she was awesome. She was kind and calming through the whole thing. She made it, if not a pleasure, at least not torture, to have fifty-two electrodes and a scuba mask strapped to me.
I'd definitely recommend this place for the sleep challenged like myself. read more