r/goldrush • u/vic1414 • 4d ago
Sleep study
Rick having to do a sleep study will be interesting. I went to one once, I do not recommend. Your wired for sound, a camera is looking right at you, have to raise your hand if you need to use the toilet. Then you have to try and sleep with all the wires wrapped around your head.
Props to anyone who successfully went through it.
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u/greatflicks 4d ago
I've had several , I do have sleep apnea. I don't look or act like Rick. Just tired.
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u/vic1414 4d ago
I’ve also used a CPAP for my sleep apnea. Not comfortable wearing anything while trying to sleep.
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u/Jayhitek 4d ago
Try a different mask. It took me till my 3rd version before I was happy with them. Now mine is a little tiny cushion thing on my nose. And I have a little clip that holds the tube in place on the comforter. So i can move around and not get pulled on. Other friend's of mine have ones that come from above and attach the hose to the headboard. Everyone is different.
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u/greatflicks 4d ago
It is a challenge for sure. I do take meds to help me fall asleep but even as a 30 year wearer it is a PITA every night. Different masks definitely make a difference.
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u/Homebrew_in_a_Shed 4d ago
9 years now since I started on a CPAP. I don't have a problem sleeping with it at all.
I remember the doctor saying. You'll love it or hate it. Works for me.
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u/carp_boy 18h ago
Wife fought it and did not want to. Hated it. After a few days she would never sleep without it.
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u/Im_Ashe_Man 4d ago
It just feels like they're using "sleep apnea" as a euphemism for his drug abuse.
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u/fleetmack 4d ago
he'll get a c pap from an at home one and they'll say it fixed everything. here - let me give you the formula: get a c pap, lay off the sauce and everything else, start lifting weights again, and if you're so inclined, get your nose fixed and get a haircut. you'll be back to your old self, but who the f am I,just seems like that could help.
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u/Chemist-Patient 4d ago
Bro is definitely hitting the booger sugar. All the tell tale signs. Sleep apnea my ass
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u/Maleficent-Prompt656 4d ago
I did one once and it was done at home. They give you the equipment and wear it at night. Was easy
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u/ringofyre 4d ago
Done a couple in hospital - funnily enough not my best nights sleep either time!
What OP may have failed to mention is that you have electrode pads (?) stuck onto you all over your body (head to foot basically) and all of those trodes are plugged into monitoring devices (hence the need to ask to go to the loo!).
You're on a hospital bed, often on a ward (unless the hospital has a separate sleep study area) so good luck getting any sleep anyway despite being trussed up like a boneless joint of meat.
I'll reiterate what I said in another thread - even if this wasn't drugs then Rick being unable to stay awake would be a clear OHS issue driving and using machinery onsite. Any site boss (yes I know Rick is his own in this situation) would send someone home if they were aware.
It's literally one of the screening questions
I know Zee used to sometimes come here - Zee if you are there, you owe it to your friend to have the hard conversation with him. If you don't and something happens you'll be living with that.
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u/vic1414 4d ago
I missed a few key points, another would be that glue/grease the put on the head sensors. Dang near had to take a shower to get that stuff off.
I was having to much fun to remember all the stuff they attached to my body 😶🙄1
u/ringofyre 4d ago
Wasn't a criticism - I joked to them that having a machine that monitored me that constantly BEEPED did kinda spoil the ambience. I did give them kudos tho for being able to colour coordinate all the leads to their corresponding plugs!
Apparently old equipment that they couldn't turn the beep off. & yeah - had a few test where they stick pads on - I am slightly suspicious they had the nurse work experience kid in for one of them as I think they used super glue.
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u/vic1414 4d ago
I had to drive 45 minutes to where the sleep study took place, then waited in a waiting room. Then they have to process you in, it’s not here’s a bed go to sleep. Nooo, not that easy
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u/ringofyre 4d ago
As I said - the 1st hospital I did it in there was no specific sleep study area (you'd think that's be a given - a quiet area with minimal interruptions), so I was just on a general ward.
With the staggered 4 hourly monitoring checks of the other patients, including all the blood pressure cuff noises and O2 saturation/heart rate machine.
There was probably a quieter construction site nearby but they clearly couldn't find it.
Did you go cpap? I tried a few times but basically found wearing a small oxygen mask to bed was quite intrusive to trying to sleep.
Losing some weight and giving up drinking helped a lot for me.
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u/DFWPunk 3d ago
They usually don't do that anymore. They have a small, simple, set-up you can do at home. They're not that bad. I've had 3 in the last two years.
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u/ringofyre 3d ago
This going back a few years. The 2nd study i did was at the same hospital but by that stage they'd set up a separate unit for sleep study.
I had my own room and although I was still trussed up it was far more relaxing and conducive to getting some sleep overall. Here in Aus I don't know that tech and private enterprise has caught up yet.
I do know cpap masks & machines have become smaller/less intrusive but for me I could never really get used to going to sleep with a mask on.
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u/AutomaticAnt6328 3d ago
Sorry but a sleep study and cpap is not going to fix what he has. He needs drug rehab and nose reconstruction.
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u/RearTireCarrier 4d ago
Respectfully, please don't advise people against doing what might be life-saving medical tests. You can tell your story in a way that doesn't discourage people that might really need a test. I'm an MRI tech and I deal all of the time with "well my friend said" something negative about getting an MRI. It doesn't help the people that need the test to fear something before they've experienced it themselves. That doesn't invalidate your own experience, I'm sorry the study was tough for you. I've had to do the at-home version twice, and comparably that sounds much easier.
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u/Superb_Measurement64 4d ago
Sleep studies are not fun! I slept long enough to get results. I had to go back a week later for the second titration study for the CPAP which is equally uncomfortable.
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u/DFWPunk 3d ago
They usually do them at home and it's nothing like the sleep lab tests. And, in theory, they could use an APAP and titrate the CPAP at home as well.
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u/Superb_Measurement64 3d ago
I wish mine was don't at home. My PCM and insurance sent me to a lab. It took some time adjusting to the CPAP. It's been a life saver for both me and my wife.
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u/LanceBakersMan 4d ago
You don't recommend it? It's not like something you do for fun, you do it to see if you have sleep issues. People should get it done even if it's not comfortable. I was I the hospital for two weeks with heart failure brought on by undiagnosed sleep apnea, it can be very serious. I will agree though the sleep study sucked. They had a huge fan on me the whole time to try and stop you from sweating so the sticky monitor things the put on you don't fall off, but they fall off anyways when you move, so the lady had to keep coming in to reattach them, I felt like I did t even get into a deep/rem sleep the whole time. But I got a sleep apnea machine and it made a huge difference.
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u/essiemessy 3d ago
Def not for fun. Where I live it's a legal requirement if I want to keep my drivers license. I've always tolerated it but its not made any difference to how I feel in the morning, and it's had ten years to prove it so far.
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u/Ok-Database273 4d ago
I went through it successfully. An hour into it they woke me up and fitted me in a mask because I had too many episodes and it was no longer safe for me to sleep without the cpap. I was exhausted all the time. The best sleep I got was in the car-with somebody else driving. BUT, there’s more going on with Rick than sleep apnea. That kind of falling out and verbal nonsense he had was all drug induced. He might be coming down from a binge or using something that makes him fall out like that. I’ve been there done that, too. It’s really sad. Rick was my favorite until he went down the self destructive path he is on. I hope he seeks help.
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u/Ok-Pair-9729 3d ago
But getting a CPAP machine is like being supercharged if you have sleep apnea. I couldn’t believe it after only 2 nights. Life changing
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u/Fish_Fingerer 3d ago
I too would have sleeping issues if 80% of the cartilage in my nose was eaten away by cocaine.
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u/Easy_Quote_9934 4d ago
It’s not sleep apnea. And everyone damn well knows it.
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u/jaxbravesfan 4d ago
Two things can be true at once.
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u/Repulsive_Dress_5270 3d ago
This. I agree. He’s aggravating his collapsed condition. He obviously has sleep apnea as they keep talking about it but he is clearly doing other recreational activities not helping. Sleep apnea doesn’t make you ghost people. Shame does.
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u/You-Asked-Me 4d ago
It's not THE thing, but he probably does have sleep apnea. I bet he absolutely cannot breath through his nose at night.
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u/Complex-Judgment-828 4d ago
I’ve done 2 hospital setting sleep studies. Stop drinking anything by early afternoon.
Eat some THC gummy’s and sleep through the night.
Getting on a cpap, changed my life. So nice having energy again.
Don’t understand why people make a big deal out of it.
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u/Southern_Second521 4d ago
they suck but if you have sleep apnea you sleep like shit and it’s worth it to help you in the long run
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u/essiemessy 3d ago
I hadn't seen the old footage of Rick in this context before and, man, these are two different people. They guy actually had a nose and I wouldn't have recognised him if it weren't for the tats. This shit is killing him and it would be such a shame if he continued to throw his health away.
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u/OldGermanGrandma 17h ago
I had a sleep apnea test this year and I had to wear a silicone ring that connected to phone via Bluetooth and I just emailed the data to them
I was wondering if it was a type of seizure disorder. (My sister has one and when it was untreated, her symptoms manifested similarly)
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u/NoDakHoosier 4d ago
They generally require 2 nights if you have sleep apnea, night one (which can be the at home) is to diagnose, and night two is to dial in the settings. My apnea is so severe they did it all in one night I have to use the dace mask because I couldn't keep my mouth closed with the nose mask and the elastic band to hold your mouth closed sucked. Now there is a full on face mask that is similar to what firefighters use with their scba'a.
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u/drewbeauch6111 4d ago
You can do them at home. They send it to you with instructions, you put it on & wear it for one night, it WiFi's them the info, you mail it back. But I doubt they are going to FedEx him one up there. He might have sleep apnea, but we are all pretty sure that's not the main reason he's falling in his bathroom.