Why You Need to Keep Current With Your Sleep Doctor...How many of you don’t keep up with all of your specialists? I have spinal muscular atrophy, which is a form of muscular...reactions3comments
Learning to Adjust to CPAP...If you’ve been following my journey, I left off with receiving my new machine. Now it’s time to start using it. I was...reactions1comment
Symptoms of Sleep Apnea...Sleep apnea is a common sleep disorder. With sleep apnea, breathing stops for short periods of 10 seconds or more during sleep...
COVID-19 Updates, April 7: Face Coverings, Testing, & Medications...It is common to feel overwhelmed about COVID-19: so much information changing day-to-day. Here are some of the important COVID-19 stories that...reactionscomments
Advocating for Sleep Apnea Awareness...What comes to mind when you hear the word advocate? Advocating for sleep apnea awareness is important to me. When hearing the...reactions1comment
Demystifying the Sleep Center...If you are like me (frightening thought, I am sure), you like to know what to expect. And your expectations are a...reactionscomments
4 of the Most Common Questions Before and During a Sleep Test...It seems common to me that once a speech or a debate ends, they’ll ask if there are any questions. At which...reactions1comment
When You’re Considering Quitting: Try This!...When you are frustrated with anything or, in some cases, everything, a decision will follow. Perhaps you are wondering, what decision? A...reactions7comments
The Morning After a Sleep Study...If you’ve had a sleep study or have a sleep study scheduled in the future, then you’ve probably had or will have...reactions3comments
Why Are You Back Again?...Once, while I was walking out of the sleep lab with a patient, I joked, “I hope I never run into you...reactions2comments
Sleep Tests 101: Polysomnography...I hope for your sake you haven’t been through every type of sleep test. I haven’t been through one yet, which multiple...reactions1comment
What’s the Best Day to Have a Sleep Study?...What’s the best day to have a sleep study? As a sleep technologist, I would argue Monday through Thursday would be the...reactionscomments
Sleep Tests 101: PAP Titration and the Home Study...Welcome to Part 2 of every kind of sleep test. In Part 1, I covered 1 type of sleep test: the polysomnography...reactions1comment
Am I Too Old to Take a Sleep Study?...On a recent trip with extended family, I shared a room with 3 other ladies who all snored. Most importantly though, 1...reactionscomments
Raising Awareness: My Relationship With Sleep...A healthy relationship with sleep is important to our health and overall well-being. But what happens when that relationship is fractured? This...reactionscomments
Sleep Awareness Week®: Ways to Raise Awareness About Your Sleep Disorder...March 12 through 18 is both the week following the time change (boo!) and National Sleep Foundation’s Sleep Awareness Week® (yay!). As...reactionscomments
Tips for Managing Weight Gain With Sleep Apnea...If you’re like me, you are trying to shed the extra weight from the holidays. Halloween to Christmas is always a tough...reactionscomments
Evaluating My Relationship With Sleep...My ongoing joke with people in my inner circle is that sleeping is my favorite hobby. If I could take a nap...reactions1comment
Cutting Through the Fog...I have heard "brain fog" referred to as a common complaint for people with sleep disorders and other chronic illnesses. I didn’t...reactionscomments
Sleep Environment Tips for Better Sleep...I have found focusing on what I can control with sleep apnea to be enormously helpful. Your sleep environment makes a big...reactionscomments
