Sleep Study???!!!

So My GP suggested I go see a RA doctor who might have "more tricks up his sleeve" for my pain. So I go, spend money, he tells me nothing I want to hear. "exercise, break a sweat, yoga isn't cardiovascular"...Okay well I would love to get back into walking a mile and a half in under 30 minutes but the pain?? What do I do for pain? "Tylenol" he replies...really? Tylenol bottle says "if you take longer than a week go see a doctor"...what in the world?!
So this RA doctor did not validate my pain AT ALL and the weirdest thing is he wants me to do a sleep study...where in the world did this come from? I sleep wonderfully! Has anyone else experienced this? This syndrome is still so much in the dark...sigh...

I had a sleep study even though I thought I slept well. I fell asleep shortly after my head hit the pillow and they woke me up at 6 am (!). I was upset because it was the best sleep I'd had in days. It turns out, the techs couldn't tell if I was actually asleep because my brain registered as awake for most of the night.

Many people with fibro have alpha intrusion in their delta sleep waves. This results in unrefreshing sleep but you might think you are sleeping all night.

I would really go ahead with the sleep study, even if ur not waking up all hours of the night, like me, it still might be interesting to find out how your sleep pattern works.

I would like to have a sleep study done myself because i'm rather curious as to what i get up to at night (i'm a severe parasomniac, i sleepwalk, grind teeth, eat whil asleep etc) so for me, i would like one :)

As for that dr.... It can sometimes be difficult to find a dr that truely listens to ur complaints, but keep looking and don't give up! If you are genuinly unhappy with this one than look for another one. I do hope there are more rheumies in America than here in Belgium cause here it's very hard. My big city area only has two qualified rheumies so i was lucky to hit it off with the first one.

Fiona

Doctors can be a real pain to find a good one!

But the sleep study could have been a response to any fatigue you are feeling.  I have had a few sleep studies and was found to have a type of sleep apnea.  I use an oral appliance at night to keep my airwaves open.  It helps a bit, but I still have fatigue.  My new fibro doc has me on a lot of herbs and supplements at night to help me sleep better.  So the combo of all of that is helping.

I knew though that I had some sleep problems because sometimes if felt like my brain was on all night, that I had one foot in sleep and the other in awake land. That I was aware of all my thoughts and dreams and basically asleep and awake at the same time.  If any of that makes sense.

But the tylenol for fibro pain is ridiculous, asprin, ibuprofin, tylenon, none of those help fibro pain.  I was on gabepentin for a while it cut the edge of the pain and I didn't have any side affects. That was an Rx by a Rhemotologist.