Sleep study almost in briefs

What do you wear?

When I had a sleep study the instructions said to bring pajamas...so i did. I arrived and they told me to change and they would be right in. Well, I stripped to my black briefs and as i was putting on a t-shirt before i put on the pj bottoms the male and female nurse returned, so I decided just to act cool and didnt rush to put the pants on. Besides i dont wear the pants with underwear, so at that point I would look like an exibitionist if i stripped off the briefs. They looked a little caught off guard, but didn't say anything I wondered if others get sleep studies only in briefs and a t-shirt.

So there I was in a t-shirt and black briefs for the whole interview and vitals....If I had the guts I would have stayed that way. But then they left and said they would be back soon to hook up all the wires...I was afraid they would think I was a perv, so I put on the pants while they were out. Then I was alone with the male nurse getting wired up he asked me to drop a set of wires down the front of each pants leg to be hooked up near my feet...that was a little exciting...but nothing much happened.

What did you wear?

How did it go?

Any exciting moments? (or was it just a lousy nights sleep

Good topic. I've never had a sleep study (although my doctor recommended it once and I never followed-thru). But I've always wondered how they're done, what you wear, etc.

I normally sleep nude, but for a situation like this, I'd probably wear either sleep pants or shorts, depending on the climate control. No shirt, as they make me feel like I'm being choked. I don't own any pajamas.

I had a sleep study done about a year ago. Normally, I sleep nude, but was instructed to bring something to sleep in, or pajamas would be provided if need be. So, I brought a pair of gym shorts and a t-shirt. (and they made me actually wear the t-shirt.) They had me change in the bathroom while they prepared the leads. When I came out, the tech wired me up, and I read my book until about 10:00 "Lights out." (about 2 hours earlier than my normal bedtime.) Then the tech came in, had me lie down, and she plugged me into the wall, so I had to sleep on my back, and stay as flat as possible. I had to get up once during the night, so she unplugged me while I used the bathroom (about 2:00 AM) Then it was back to bed and got reconnected. At 6:00 AM, it was time to get up (About 2 hours earlier than usual.) She stripped the wires off me and had me shower to remove the conductive gel from my hair. Then it was get dressed, and the doctor will see you in about 3 months. (Tha VA schedule is always packed.)

I don't understand how, if they're trying to evaluate your sleep patterns, they can expect to get valid data from artificial situations. If they were to insist that I sleep clothed and on my back, I might get an hour or two of fitful sleep if at all.

Doc S: What kind of sleep study was it? What were they trying to determine? Why did you need a sleep study?

I have a sleep study this Sunday night. I will wear gym type shorts and a T shirt. This is what I have worn to all sleep studies and I have done 4 or 5. I have lost 35 or 40 pounds and hope I will be able to quit using my C-pap machine as it is not my buddy.

Bill

Suzy, I thought there was only one type of sleep study. To determine if you have sleep apnea.

I have had to do two sleep studies and the first was to determine if I had sleep apnea. The second was to get my pressure adjusted. Both times I had to wear shorts and a tshirt. The tech said it was to help hold the wires.

My heavy snoring was causing issues, so a sleep study was done recently. Fortunately I successfully completed the study in one evening...more visits would have been needed otherwise. The instructions were to bring sleep wear of some sort. Worked out great for me because I don't sleep nude anymore....boxer briefs/t-shirt in summer, long-sleeved t-shirt, boxer briefs and fleece sweatpants in winter, no socks ever...except when napping at work 😃

Nothing erotic or exciting at all for me on this study, I was just happy it was over in one night.

Since my study was done in winter, I came prepared with my pillows, blanket, sweat pants & tshirt. After changing into my 'sleep wear,' Nice female technician gooped up my head & hair, chest & legs and applied the sensors to each spot. it was done in a larger, private hospital room...reminded me of a hotel room. I hit the hay at 9pm hoping I could sleep with all the wires...I always climb into bed and fall asleep within minutes..and fortunately I fell asleep right away. Half the night flew by, and she woke me up to put on CPAP mask and let me sleep remainder of night comfortably while they adjusted different air pressures remotely from their Command Central room. I got up once for a nature call. I simply yelled out "nature call," With the microphones and video, she responded within 15 seconds "i'll be there in a minute." Less than 30 seconds she appears, unhooks the box, I go pee, she says the study is over, it was successful. She started removing sensors and I asked if a CPAP machine would be recommended and what she noticed. She said she was not really allowed to discuss anything, only a doctor would contact me after reviewing the results. BUT she said since this hospital just started working with the VA hospital, because that's where my primary care doctor is, she made an exception and did me a huge favor by telling me it was very likely I would be prescribed a CPAP machine, I definitely had sleep apnea, etc. Otherwise I would have waited over a week or two. Who likes to wait? That's NOT the American way 😃

"Lights out." (about 2 hours earlier than my normal bedtime.) Then the tech came in, had me lie down, and she plugged me into the wall, so I had to sleep on my back, and stay as flat as possible.... At 6:00 AM, it was time to get up (About 2 hours earlier than usual.)

Sounds to me that it's not really a sleep study, but a sleep disruption study ... what can they ever learn by studying someone who can't fall asleep at the time that is convenient for the hospital and who is roused from what is probably the deepest sleep hours before it normally begins?

There is something lacking in the methodology and the basic premise if you ask me. Or else they are trying to determine something else, but not telling you.

In the past it's been a hospital gown and diapers. I'm due again because of severe headaches and violent dreams

I have sleep apnea, so i have had 4 sleep studies...the first was the worse, as i was working the early morning shift so i was up at 0300 worked all day and no pop or coffee was allowed, showing up at 2100 and it took them till almost midnight to get me hooked up i wore a wife beater and light weight sweat pants...so i finally fall asleep and they wake me up at 0530...i get breakfast, but no coffee again...but there the tec was drinking coffee and i could smell it...i would have killed for a cup, so after two hours of being up they "let" me take a "10 minute" nap...which made it worse then i had to stay awake for 2 more hours...so i left the hospital and went and got some stuff for my car...all wired up...looked like frankinstein...come before for another "nap"...then up again for 2 more hours then another nap..which i guess i finally fell asleep in the 10 minutes so they gave 5 more minutes...went home feeling like i had been beat up...did not go to work the next day....all the other sleep studies did not have all that nap bull crap, so they were better.

I always wear 2 pair tight whites….. I tend to leak some…..

I have never had one of these test. I do sleep naked so I would not have any pjs to wear should I ever need one but guess I could wear a pair of lounge pants without underwear and a t shirt.

I have never had one of these tests done to me, but I know people who have. They always instruct them to bring some kind of sleepwear with them and don't seem to allow people to sleep naked.

At the VA they told me to bring whatever sleepwear that I was most comfortable in. I wore tighty whities.

Normally, I sleep nude, but when I had a sleep apnea study done, I was told to bring PJ's or shorts and a t-shirt. So, I had mine in a pair of gym shorts and a t-shirt.

A friend (female) has had two sleep studies. I helped her with the paperwork and in both it was explicitly stated you had to wear pjs. They said the test would not be performed if the patient slept only in their underware.

Thanks for this post. I'm going in for a sleep study and was wandering what to expect. Thanks for the info!

I've had 3, one in a sleep lab, one at home, one in a hospital - at home I wore the usual (naked) and a box with attached sensors ( to me) that was supposed to record my sleep - it was a money-saving attempt by Kaiser and evidently the box didn't work correctly, so wasted time..

Sleep lab was in the desert 10 years ago - I turned up at 9 at night, good-sized offices and 6 or 7 small sleep study rooms, bed and bedside table was about all they held. Checked in with Dwayne, friendly younger guy around 30; along with all the preliminary height/weight/vitals, asked me about sleep habits, symptoms, etc. I'd brought sweatpants and t-shirt figuring I'd have to go along with whatever the dress code was, but Dwayne asked What do you normally sleep in? I told him Nothing. He said We want to make sure you get a typical night's sleep, I said not having to suit up would help. He said Not a problem, let me put the others away for the night and come get you. I read for awhile, he came and collected me and said Let's get started. I went behind a curtain and took everything off but my socks (cold feet always), padded back into the main room hoping there weren't any cameras (turns out there were in all the sleep rooms, Oh well) - Dwayne worked over, around and behind me for 1/2 hour putting sensors on back/chest/head, arms and legs (connected those to each other, they wanted to track movements). Got done, stood back and said "I don't know why you're here, you're not overweight" (toned 5'11" and 175, and I was sitting facing him wearing only socks and wires, he had seen everything except directly under me) - "Well, let's see if we can get some readings." Put me in the room, turned off the overhead light and turned on a dim red bulb below my line of sight - I asked what that was for and that's when I found out I was being filmed) Gave some instructions over an overhead speaker, then I was out for the night. He woke me after a few hours and connected a CPAP, I managed to go back to sleep a little longer.

Morning was the reverse, he got the others disconnected and out, came for me and disconnected everything, said "Get dressed, you're free!"

Did say that I'd slept on my left side the entire time, didn't wake up, snored lightly once or twice but for the most part didn't make a sound, didn't gasp for air. He did say you moved your legs initially, "cupped yourself a few times", I probably blushed, he was laughing.

(Moderate or worse apnea, 25-30 incidents per hour was the verdict. They'd missed it for years because they have a profile that says I should be a heavyset middle-aged male, sleep on my back, snore loudly, etc and none of that applied - I was on the skinny side for years, certainly had no extra at this time. Since I didn't look like their mental picture, took me more than a decade to finally get tested, and confirmed.)

Recent study in a hospital, checked in at 10 at night, same setup as the desert, dress code was Shirt, Pants and Underwear REQUIRED, talk about uncomfortable if you're not used to it. Young woman had me change, put sensors on arms and head, had me raise my shirt and pantlegs and she attached a few more. Didn't sleep well and only for about 3 hours, but they got most of what they needed for readings. Have been told the Sleep Lab in the desert was unusual, that most places wouldn't allow anything like a naked study subject but since it was a resort town and spring break destination, they were probably more relaxed about things.

I'm grateful to Dwayne, might still be trying to sort out my lifelong sleep deficit if not for his relaxed approach. Seemed perfectly fine working closely on a naked guy, but when I said I feel like somebody's science project he stood back for a look, laughed and said Don't quit your day job! Bastard...

I was scheduled to be scheduled to do a sleep study (Love the VA and the way they don't do things by doing other things) anyway, I got a call one day around 3pm asking if I could come in that night as they had a cancelation and they wanted the tech to have a full night of work. I had a rough 24 hours previous and knew I would be able to sleep that night so I agreed to go in. I arrived by 8pm to learn if I had not come in the tech would have had the night off as others canceled at the last minute. I was her only charge for the night. She quickly went over the details and asked me to change into my PJs and she would be back in to hook me up. She offered me one last bathroom break. She hooked me up. I remember asking myself how anyone could sleep with all these heavy wires and beeping machines all over the place.

I fell asleep very fast that night. In the middle of sleeping I hear her pretty much yell at me not to wake up to go back to sleep. She was in another room and spoke to me from a speaker in my room. I again asked myself how could anyone sleep with someone yelling at them not to wake up and go back to sleep?

The next morning I awoke early (for me) and had to pee. She knew this would be an issue so she unhooked my leads from the machines and handed me the bundle of wires and told me to go use the bathroom. When I came back she informed me that one other guy was able to come in at 11pm and do his sleep study, so she had two people to watch overnight, I was not alone. She then told me to go to the end of the room and open one of the two doors and find a shower room. She told me I could shower, shave and brush my teeth before leaving. While standing in front of the mirror I noticed the goop in my hair was still there and matted up good. I tried and tried to get it out of my hair. I then hear her on the other side of the door remind me that most others found a hot shower will loosen up the goop and it will come out easier. So I headed into the shower room within this room. I tried like hell to get it out. I washed several times, still piles of goop in my hair. I must of been in there for a while because the next thing I know the door opens and in she walks. She stands sideways, looking at the other side of the room, asking me what I tried and what seemed to work the best. I stood there in the handicap shower area under the hot water with my hands on my head. She then informed me that her shift was over and she wanted to go home but could not until I left the hospital.

I had two studies one without CPAP and one with. Both times I was instructed to wear pajamas. When I got there they told me to change in the bathroom since the bedroom was monitored by camera. I went into the bathroom and changed into PJs and was told to relax for about an hour and then they would wire me up. The chest leads were thread between the buttons on my top and the tech threaded a leg lead inside the waist band and down one leg of my bottoms. There was plenty of slack so nothing was binding. Then all the EEG leads were stuck on my head. For the CPAP test, th CPAP mask was added. Ocaisionally during the test the tech came into adjust the mask or reconnect a lead. Not the best nights sleep I ever had.

I've had a few studies. Many were like the one described above where I was required to only sleep on my back. It was an apnea study with a few additional checks thrown in there.

I wore a plain cami and gym shorts. It was uneventful. I read for a while, slept very little due to all the wires.

When I got up, I showered and got dressed and was told I needed another study because I didn't sleep enough during that one.

For the second one, I was given ambien.

When I had mine about a year ago, it was here, at the local (small town) hospital. I had to go in through the e.r. entrance and be registered and "branded" with the bracelet. I sat in the e.r. waiting room until the lady came to get me, about 8 p.m. We walked through the hospital to the medical building side and up onto the 3rd floor to the sleep study section (next to the neurology offices). I had my backpack with my clothes and things, and my pillows. The room was big and more like a motel room. The bed was adjustable, and a king sized one. Why they needed one that big was beyond me, but I know I would love to have a bed like that! I was told to change into my p.j.'s and I just wore a t-shirt and pj pants that are capries. She stuck a lot of goop in my hair and pushed wire leads into the goop all over my head. She put an ekg on me, all up and down my legs and I think wrists. I can't remember. I just remember wires everywhere! They put something that looked like a nasal canula on my face. That bugged me the most, I think. It made my nose itch! I was handed the remote to the bed to adjust it how I wanted. I played with the massaging feature on it (ahhh!) and watched t.v. and played on my phone until I was ready to sleep. I think it was around 10 when I did. I tossed and turned and was aware of wires and itchy things on my nose all night. Just when I started sleeping really good, she came in and woke me up. It was 5 a.m.!! She undid everything and asked me a few questions. Turns out I stop breathing 33 times a minute and my o2 dropped to 77. My CPAP is my friend and I don't sleep well with out it. It's really helped cut out on my night time asthma attacks. I have a hard time sleeping without it now. It wasn't at all hard for me to get used to it. My friend on the other hand, couldn't stand her machine and she sent it back.

I did a sleep study at home. I went to a class where several people were instructed on how to hook up and use the monitoring equipment that was provided. The next day I returned the equipment. I was subsequently diagnosed with apnea. I would rather do it at home than go to a medical office.

I did a full sleep study in 2016 where I had to spend the night in the sleep center hooked up to all the machines and such. I asked them what to bring and if I had to wear anything special, and they just said I could just sleep however I normally slept as long as it wasn't fully naked. Also I had to take a shower before coming in to the facility for that night. I figured since I normally sleep in my underwear, thats what I was going to spend the night in at the sleep center. I was aware that some centers do not let you strip down to your undies for the entire night, but I checked the website for this center and there was nothing about it, only "no nudity".

When I got there, after waiting for a little bit for them to get things ready ( I showed up a bit early) they told me to get ready for bed so I brushed my teeth, then stripped down to my briefs and laid in bed, watching TV. After a few more minutes the technician came in and got me up and out of bed, and him and another technician started wiring me up for the evening, pretty much head to toe. The main technician actually left so one of the junior assistants did it, and they were both male as well. (As a funny aside, the tech also had the same first name as me!).

They never said one word about me being in my undies, aside from reminding me that the bathroom was down the hall, and that I wouldn't really have the chance to put my clothes back on if I needed to go in the middle of the night (which I ended up having to do twice, yes I went from my room down the hall to the bathroom in just my briefs with all the wires attached). Honestly, with as many wires as they hooked up to my chest and legs, I don't know how even getting ready for the test would have been possible without being mostly naked, lol. Unfortunately I was pretty nervous and anxious, so actually getting to sleep was a bit of a task. They offered me half an ambien which I ended up taking. Even with that, it was still kind of hard to sleep. Plus they required me to sleep flat on my back, which without a CPAP is not exactly comfortable to me. I rolled over on my side one and they got on the loudspeaker and told me to move back.

After seeing how I was sleeping normally, halfway through the night they came and hooked up the CPAP mask to me, then left me alone for the rest of the night. Admittedly, the CPAP mask felt really good, mainly because it was nice to be able to get the full amount of oxygen that I needed. In spite of that I was still kinda amped up. The idea of being hooked up with all these wires and someone constantly monitoring me was exciting to me, and I did at least at one point get an erection. It was kinda hard to resist to playing with, hehe.

They ended the test at 5 am and they unhooked me from all the wires, I got dressed, filled out a questionare, and went home. My sleep schedule was also pretty messed up for a few days after that, which was not pleasant. But overall it was a positive experience for me, and I'll be more than willing to do another study if/when the time comes.😉

I had a sleep study approximately 12 months ago and stayed in for 2 nights in a London hospital. The first night I was hooked up to various monitoring machines and the second a CPAP machine as well.

I was told to bring what I normally wear at night. I took some PJ bottoms and a t-shirt. However, at home I sleep naked. I’ve recently started to wear diapers when away from home but that’s another story.

I told the nurse I normally sleep naked and they were happy if I wanted to during my stay, so I did. During the day I dressed in my normal day clothes.

Due to my disabled I required help dressing, undressing, getting on the bed etc and they were happy to assist. I also had assisted showers.

I did a full sleep study in 2016 where I had to spend the night in the sleep center hooked up to all the machines and such. I asked them what to bring and if I had to wear anything special, and they just said I could just sleep however I normally slept as long as it wasn't fully naked.

I don't sleep fully naked since I have an easy time of catching a cold that way. Therefore I only wear some kind of top, but nothing in the way of bottoms or pants or briefs ...

I wonder how that would have been received in that clinic? After all, technically I wouldn't have been fully naked ...

Socks wouldn't have been completely naked either.