Sleep study

This one is from Brooks, who is four years old.

Brooks recently had a sleep study.

He wants to know, how do sleep studies measure inside your body and see what is happening in your brain while you sleep?

Oh, oh, I know this one.

The scientists plug a giant computer cable into your ear, and then they watch your dreams on a big flat screen TV in the next room.

So in situations like that, I do always recommend that if a woman is having repeated wake-ups to look into her sleep breathing, she does not have to go to a lab anymore.

The way that they've done these sleep studies these days since COVID, because no one wanted to go to the labs during COVID, they were forced to get really resourceful.

And now there's a plethora of home sleep breathing tests you can just order and they just deliver them to your house for like under $200.

So I think that's a great use of your dollars if you're struggling with your sleep and you've tried all the basic things.

And so that's just a point I want to leave people with is just don't be afraid to keep being that squeaky wheel, right? And saying what you need.

Yeah, I agree.

You know, I thought about a lot of the sleep studies today, and I know you can get them obviously prescribed, but they just felt very direct to consumer.

Yeah.

Slowly but surely going through pros.

I got my sleep study done.

That's all in progress.

Going to end up with the sleep

Good sleep is not defined by hours, but it's defined by quality of sleep.

Sleep studies, whether they're in-lab sleep studies or home sleep studies, are not meant to rule in or out all sleep disorders.

If you're not getting good quality of sleep, forget hours, quality is actually more important than hours.

I think every physician, every provider, everyone who is involved in the health of a patient or a person should be thinking sleep all the time, because if you're not thinking it, you will miss it.

I love that.

And so well stated.

On the note of polysomnography, sleep studies, that is one thing that, again, we learn none of this in our schooling.

So I thought for a while, oh, AHI in kids is the barometer of disease, right? That's it.

Um, so Nick's gonna hopefully make a good dent in Disco Elysium, and we are finishing out KH BBS on Monday.

Tuesday is, uh, Gears of War with Nick and I. Wednesday is going to be Majora's Mask because I have a doctor's appointment, like a sleep study on Wednesday night, so that like, uh, um, interferes with my ability to stream Dark Souls III, so I will be streaming Dark Souls III on Thursday instead.

So weird week.

You're gonna get a stream Monday through Thursday, though.

And I have a doctor's appointment on Friday, like a follow-up-

Damn

... for my sleep study.

Yeah.

S- what do they do?

Well, we do sleep studies in the practices because it's really important to have a baseline sleep study at some point in your life.

You really need to have one.

A home sleep test, you don't have to go and get hooked up to all the leads.