 92.7 W-O-B-M. Good morning Sean Sue with you on this brand new Monday morning. It is November 14th 855 right now 38 degrees joining us is Dr. Adrienne Pristis director of the sleep of sleep medicine for meridian neuroscience part of the hack and sack meridian health and Doctor good morning. Welcome to the program doctor. Thank you. Good morning You know sleep is always something Sue and I joke about because you know, I've been 25 years now getting up at 2 30 in the morning Sue. What did you say the other day 18 years So you've been getting up you know around like four in the morning So, you know our sleep schedule unlike anybody else's but let's talk a little bit about it How do you know if you're having a problem with sleep? Let's start there Well it becomes obvious when you're willing to admit that you don't feel as good as you should during the day You should get up in the morning feel pretty good. Everybody's entitled to about 15 minutes of being a little bit grumpy first thing but you should be able to Get up start moving around feeling like you're awake and rested and that should that should stay with you all day It it shouldn't kind of take a lull at certain times where you feel like you need to nap and Everybody's entitled to a bad night's sleep once in a while But vast majority of the days you should feel good all day long and be ready to go to bed at about the time You usually do every night and that should be your routine most days And if that's not the case then you have a problem Yeah, if you're one those people that are like are nodding off So you're a nine to five type of person you're nodding off, you know at one o'clock at your desk might be you know Red flag there for you. Absolutely. All right. What is a sleep study like? I mean, we hear all kinds of things You know we hear you know that you got a whack, you know underwater scuba gear They hook up electrodes to you all these different things. Tell us what it really is Well, there's some truth to that but it's not really that bad, you know competition is good And there is a lot of competition out there. So everybody's trying their best to make that as comfortable as possible So most sleep labs these days look like a hotel. You have your own bedroom a bathroom a TV. It's private Yes, you do get hooked up to some wires But over the years they've all been approved and and it's it kind of gets all Holstered in and you get tucked away nicely at night. So it's not that bad now granted It's not a perfect night sleep in your own bed. You've you've got people watching and listening But it's not that bad at the end of the day when people come back to the office. They admit It's not it's not a horrible experience. It's not ideal. They don't want to do it every night But it's it's something that's very doable and reasonable very few people have a miserable night sleep Okay, why are they important these sleep studies? Why do we want to do them? Well, the that's a that's a good long question the Importance of of sleep can't be underestimated your health depends on it There are a great number of sleep disorders that are listed in in medical literature numbering more than 80 Any one of them can add to the bad night sleep the tiredness during the day some of them impact seriously on your health The most common one that people are aware of is sleep apnea Sleep apnea can lead to some very serious health issues like heart attack and stroke poorly controlled blood pressure poorly controlled blood sugar if you're a diabetic Leads to blood clots and other such serious matters And if you don't address these things you put yourself at risk just like the smoker who can't stop smoking Yeah, it is that serious. What do we do to get more information? How do we get more information about the sleep study programs and you know sleep in general through? You know hack and sack meridian health. Well, every primary care doctor knows a lot about sleep It is a good part of their practice whether it be insomnia sleep apnea or one of the other disorders So go to your primary care doctor express your concerns Tell them what your symptoms are and they will and they will point you in the right direction Whether they know you need a sleep study or they need to get you to a sleep specialist meridian is blessed with a great number of those folks so There's help right around a corner and you can also visit meridian well rested calm is a website to go to Absolutely real quick children are doing this now, too, right children are a big part of sleep disorders these days It's not to be underestimated for example attention deficit disorder a serious matter everybody knows about about 25% of those kids have a need for a sleep study and Since it's a word the kids to get absolutely safe mom or dad can stay with the kid for the night and Usually not too much of an issue. It's a comfortable setting most of our Labs have accommodations as a matter of fact all of our labs have accommodations for that kind of setup So the child can stay there with mom or dad Well, thank you today for coming in dr. Adrian pristis of the director of sleep medicine for meridian neuroscience part of the Hackensack meridian health department and we want to tell you go to meridian well rested Dot-com for more details and so in get a good night. It's so so important get a good night's sleep tonight, so