Home Sleep Study
Evaluate Your Sleep From the Comfort of Home
Sleep plays an important role in your overall health and well-being. If you regularly snore, wake up feeling tired, or experience excessive daytime sleepiness, a sleep-related breathing problem may be contributing to your symptoms.
Keith Family Medicine offers convenient home sleep studies that allow eligible patients to complete sleep testing in the comfort of their own home.
When a Home Sleep Study May Be Recommended
Your provider may recommend a home sleep study if you have symptoms that could be associated with obstructive sleep apnea or another sleep-related breathing concern. These may include:
- Loud or frequent snoring
- Pauses in breathing during sleep
- Gasping or choking during sleep
- Excessive daytime sleepiness
- Morning headaches
- Difficulty concentrating
- Waking up feeling unrefreshed
- Ongoing fatigue despite getting enough sleep
Your provider will review your symptoms and health history to determine whether a home sleep study is appropriate for you.
How a Home Sleep Study Works
A home sleep study uses a portable monitoring device to collect important information while you sleep in your own bed. Depending on the testing device, measurements may include breathing patterns, oxygen levels, heart rate, and other information that can help evaluate for sleep-related breathing problems.
Our team will explain how to use the equipment and what to expect during your study.
Understanding Your Results
After your sleep study is completed, the results are reviewed to help determine whether there are signs of a sleep-related breathing disorder such as obstructive sleep apnea.
Your provider can discuss the findings with you and recommend appropriate next steps based on your results, symptoms, and overall health.
Better Sleep Supports Better Health
Untreated sleep problems can affect more than how rested you feel. Sleep-disordered breathing may be associated with concerns such as high blood pressure, daytime fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and other health issues.
Identifying a sleep-related breathing problem can be an important step toward improving your sleep and supporting your overall health.
Wondering why you’re always tired? Read our health and wellness article about common causes of ongoing fatigue.