Well, we're here at the upstate sleep center to see what a sleep lab test looks like.

Let's go on in.

I'm going to bring it down to your room.

I'll have you change.

my PJs.

Okie doke.

When you're ready, just come out, sit in the chair and open up the door, and I'll come in and get the wires See you in a so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to put some wires on your They show to the doc your brainwaves.

They tell the dock when you're when you're sleeping, and there's brainwaves.

Well, actually, we will prove one way or another.

Well, you have a functioning brain or not.

every one of these, goes into a specific spot they're all labeled depending on what part of the brain they're actually going everything will connect into this box.

When I actually put you to bed, this will come off of your neck.

Plug into the computer an just be on the bed next to you.

Okay, So this one is going to go just above the eye.

And then when you're sleeping in those different parts of sleep, the eyes make different movements.

And that's wha this actually shows the doctor So far this feels a lo like going to the hairdresser.

Very weird hairdo.

Unfortunately it will nothing like going to the hairdresser the time you're done.

then there are.

A couple that go on the and what they do is they actually show the doctor your muscle interestingly enough, there are four parts of when you come out of the deeper sleep, which is REM, you're actually supposed to wak So for a person who's sleeping normally, they would go into that about every 90 minutes.

So when people are stopping breathing, what actually happens is the muscles from the back of the throat, down to the lungs actually relax and close.

And when they relax and close, they stop the air from getting through.

after a while, the brain actually realizes that you're not breathing and says we should probably breathe because that's kind of a good thing.

And what will happen is the brain will actually have what we call an arousal, an it will be just a few seconds.

when those brain wakes up for those couple of seconds, they open those muscles back up and the person starts breathing again.

the oxygen level comes up, the heart slows back down, unfortunately for those people, it happens over and over and over.

And because of that that's why the people feel tired is because their brain doesn't get to go through all those different parts of sleep like it's supposed this is going to go around your basically you're a dog on a leash.

At this point There will be two belts.

And they showed the breathing muscles actually moving.

There's two different kinds of apnea.

Obstructive apnea is where those muscles close.

And that's the one people typically have.

There's another apnea called central apnea where the brain isn' telling the person to breathe.

And when people have that, none of the muscles move because the brain isn't telling, telling the muscles to move.

ahead and just layer it down.

what I'm going to do is I'm going to put one of these masks on face.

It connects to a machine that pushes air through it And what we do from the other roo is we increase the amount of air until we find the right amount to keep you breathing and eliminat all your Can somebody read me?

Good night.

Moon.

That's not going to be me.

So the mask goes over the mouth and the it snug enough that the mask doesn't leak any of the error.

I feel a little like Darth Vader.

Vader.

Yeah, you look a little like Darth Everybody who wears one does.

Okay.

So you can go ahead and go to sleep, Okay.

I give it a try.

This was surprisingly easy for me.

And I didn't think I was goin to be able to go to sleep, but I it was okay.

The whole thing actually, even the mask, it's a little weird, but it's not scary.

Actually, most people have a much easier time than they eve imagine that they Once you go to sleep, for most people, it's no different than if they were at home.

I've heard that a lot of people get a CPAp and then they stop using it.

Is that because So one of the important things when we first are treating you when you first get it at home, is finding a mask that actually is comfortable and doesn't if the mask isn't fitting correctly and it's leaking, that can cause a problem to wear.

It's just so annoying.

They just take it off.

So what is the CPAp mask actually do for you.

it allows you to remain sleeping, which allows you to go through the different parts of sleep the way that you're suppose to takes a lot of stress off the not only does it help with the heart, but the deep sleep is when the hormones reset.

So a lot of the people that have sleep apnea will have things like diabetes and other diseases, because the hormones aren't able to reset the way they and high blood pressure is another big A lot of that is actually taken care of once you're getting the correct amount of deep they sleep better and and life gets better as soon as you sleep better, you get the correct amount of deep sleep and you feel a whole lot more Sounds we'll fix you.