Diagnosing sleep apnea is needed to rule out a possible sleep apnea suspicion. Normally, you can seek appointment with your doctor for the diagnosis procedures that you should undertake to confirm your condition.
Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Process
- The first thing that doctor’s usually do, is to ask you and your family questions about how you sleep and your functions or activities during the day. Through this also your doctor will be able to know how loudly and often you snore or choking sounds during sleep. If the all the questioned are answered the doctor will conduct a physical exam.
- In diagnosing sleep apnea includes physical exam. Through this the doctor will check your mouth, nose, and the throat for extra or large tissues.
- Sleep study is also conducted. It said to be the most accurate test to diagnosed sleep apnea. It tends to capture what happens with your breathing while at sleep. It is usually done in a sleep center or sleep lab. Through this method you are entitles to stay overnight in the sleep center.
- Polysomnogram (PSG) known to be as the most common study used for diagnosing sleep apnea. This method is painless, all you have to do is to go to sleep and along with this you will have sensors on scalp, face, chest, limbs and finger. The sensors will be check by the staff of the hospital during the entire night. Through this method, it will records brain activity, eye movement and other muscle activity, breathing and heart rate, how much air moves in and out of your lungs while you are at sleep and the amount of oxygen in your blood. After this method in diagnosing sleep apnea is done the specialist will review the results for him to know if you have a sleep apnea and if you have how severe it is. Through these results the doctor will now set his plan for the treatment that you needed.
Diagnosing sleep apnea allows you to know if you really have the condition or not, through this also your doctor will know the possible treatment that will be given to you.