Restless leg is t really pain. It’s like a tightening feeling in your calf and shin. It makes you want to stretch your legs or massage them. I can see why it can keep you from sleeping.
I have issues relaxing and sitting in movie theaters and on airplanes.
I can sleep fine.
Before I knew what it was called, I used to call it cranky ankles.
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I’ve had several sleep tests and can say there’s no need to be anxious. They look after you well and you’ve already been given some great advice here. I would recommend taking a selfie once you’re all connected.
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Hahaha! Thanks for your advice; I’ll probably try to do that.
Darn, I missed a selfie opportunity.
Just put bandaids and tape on your face and take the pic.
We will be able to get the idea
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Thank you all for your help/thoughts! My study was last night - I arrived at 8:30, ready for bed and got all hooked up - that was no problem. I was able to just lay my pump on the bed next to me. But I couldn’t sleep. I was so worried about NOT sleeping that I was up all night. I’d be about to fall asleep, realize what was happening, and wake myself up. The tech said I got about 2 hours of sleep but never hit REM. They aren’t really worried about it being apnea so hopefully something else will show. If not, I may end up doing a repeat one, maybe at home. (I did get a good 4 hours when I got back in my own bed!)
Oh, and she hooked me up and immediately turned off the lights, so no chance to take a selfie! Ugh!
When I saw the selfie, I knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep with all of those attachments. I doubt that I could even without them. Sleep on demand has never been possible for me.
Hope you are able to find some answers.
Thanks, me too. I honestly had no problem with the sensors and tape! The room was a bit chilly and my brain would just not shut off.
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I did a sleep study 35 years ago. I was in college. And we’ll no one should be surprised that I would have a hard time sleeping at college, but it was effecting my hearing.
I went into the hospital. Yes an actual hospital and I wa s connected to an EEG. They made me stay up all night and a nurse would run in there if they thought I was dozing off.
In the morning after being up 24 hours they put me in a dark room and I slept 10 hours
They told me the next week that there is nothing wrong with me and I need to go to bed early.
I think being anxious about sleep make me have a hard time sleeping.
It still happens to me some nights, but it’s more about anxiety surrounding blood sugars.
As an audiologist, I’m interested that your lack of sleep was affecting your hearing! Wonder why that was. Bummer that you didn’t get any answers. I know for sure diabetes affects my sleep - it’s been so much better with the Dexcom/Tandem ControlIQ setup!
Funny you should ask. I have life long tinnitus. I didn’t realize it as a kid because I thought everyone heard a high pitched hissing sound when it was quiet.
When I don’t get enough sleep the tinnitus becomes louder and it effects my sleep…
But it also effects my hearing during the day. Especially high pitch things including higher pitch voices. Anything that coincides with the background noise.
Most of the time I don’t even notice it, only when it’s quiet or if I am struggling to hear something I bring my awareness to it.
Back when I was 18, I wasn’t sleeping well and that’s when I got the tinnitus diagnosis.
It’s a bad cycle, I stayed up late a lot which made my tinnitus worse, which kept me from sleeping, which made my tinnitus worse and on and on.
This was 3 years before I was diagnosed with T1 but who knows.
I remember hearing it when I was very young at 5 years old, and probably even before that. At 5 I got a clock radio and kept it on low at night because the quiet hissing was annoying to me
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A lot of kids don’t realize it’s abnormal because they’ve always had it! Tinnitus is an awful cycle, for sure, and unfortunately, no cure.
Have you had a hearing test recently? Been seen by an ENT?