Realise it’s a long shot but hoping someone knows about this!
Did an overnight o2 study for DT1 a week or two ago. Immediately got a call saying the sensor had come off after midnight (rare night where the twins slept, I’d set an alarm to check it but I must have turned it off in my sleep- I’m very tired!). They said they’d set us up with the monitor again over a weekend giving us more time to get a good reading, so we picked it up yesterday and tried it last night. They told us they needed at least six hours of data. They said they’d set it up to alarm this time so we’d know when it’s off but that didn’t happen so it’s in no alarm mode.
Last night it was on from 9pm-11pm, 1am - ?, 3:45 (when I woke up to check) - 3:55, 4:05 - 7:00
So whether they got enough data I don’t know. He’s not pulling it off, it’s just when he moves it comes off, even when I taped the wire to his foot as well. The last set up I used seemed to be most secure so will use that again tonight.
My questions are do the six hours need to be continuous? Or if it falls off and I put it back on, and it adds up to six hours is that enough?
Also, if I do it again tonight, will it overwrite last nights data or will it all be recorded until they download it?
The times were I was watching the monitor last night have me really worried - I didn’t think he had sleep apnoea, they were doing the test because of snoring and mouth breathing, but I saw so many drops so often (usually from 97-99 down to 92-94), but I saw four occasions where he went to 90 or lower (90, 89, 89,83 and 81) just from the times I was watching it. It has really worried me. We spent a lot of time on o2 monitors when they were babies and I know this is not good. I just want to make sure this data isn’t lost.
I thought I’d asked everything I needed to know but obviously the nurses who deal with it aren’t there at the weekend so I can’t ask!