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Question: What diagnostic tests should I ask my doctor to do to determine cause of my tiredness and sleep difficulties?I am 43 year old male, and am feeling overall poorly. I am strong and all that, but I just feel weak and tired, and I have difficulty getting good sleep. I recently was diagnosed with sleep apnea and am using the CPAP machine, but I still wake up tired and cant maintain my sleep through the night. I still drag through the day with tiredness, weakness, and depression. A friend suggested a series of tests his naturepathic doctor took him through including hormone levels check, hair, and spittle test...but he didnt know what the other tests available to determine chemistry and nutritional deficiencys might be. Wondering if anyone could advise me on what tests to have my doctor adminster.
Answer: Go to the same doctor who diagnosed your sleep apnea and tell him you would like a CPAP titration test. This will determine whether or not your CPAP machine is set at the correct setting. It may not be set high enough.Also request a test called a polysomnogram, which is a sleep study that will monitor your heart rate, blood pressure, snoring intensity, the number of times you move when you sleep (and if those movements arouse you into wakefulness, even though you're not aware of it), how long you're in REM sleep, which is the most restful state of sleep.. all of these things have an effect on the level of sleep you reach in a night and can have a BIG effect on your daytime level of alertness and ability to function.
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