Getting to sleep

Once wired up, despite being in the comfort of your own bed, you are likely to take a little longer to get to sleep. Most people report that the attachments feel a little strange but not uncomfortable. The set-up will allow you to sleep in whatever position you like.

People often start to worry that they won’t sleep or get accurate results. In reality, only a tiny proportion of sleep tests fail due to inadequate sleep data.

Though you may feel you haven’t slept particularly well, chances are, you slept much more than you think you did.

You’ll get plenty of sleep which will give us enough and lots of data to work with.

Throughout the night

Typically, you have six to seven hours to sleep. A technician will monitor you overnight if level 1 or it may be unattended. If you need to urinate in the middle of the night, simply let the technician know or self unhook the machine as taught and then reconnect it and go back to sleep.

What happens after the study?

When you wake up on the following morning, you can remove the sleep study machine yourself. This is process is very straightforward, and will be explained to you by the technician on the night of your study. The machine is picked up by the technician the next morning. The analysis and report generation process will then require approximately 24 hrs.