A Step-by-Step Guide to Home Sleep Testing
We guide you at every step – from selecting the right test, explaining the process, to consulting on the results. Let us help you towards a restful night's sleep.
Introduction to Home Sleep Testing
Can simple-looking devices that you apply yourself in your home really measure sleep quality and sleep disordered breathing? Yes! And, they are medically approved and cost-effective too. They provide a simultaneous recording of heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiratory analysis, and sleep time and connect to an app on your phone, for speedy transmission to our team.
Taken together, these measurements add up to an apnoea-hypopnoea index (AHI) recording the number of breathing pauses per hour of sleep. Based on this score, you’ll be diagnosed with mild, moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnoea, or none at all.
It’s important to get tested for sleep apnoea, especially if you snore and wake repeatedly. Narrowing of the throat when asleep is what causes sleep apnoea and in turn this causes a drop in oxygen in all the organs in your body including your brain and heart. Sleep apnoea is linked to high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart attacks, as well as daytime sleepiness and loss of sexual vigor. Hence our motto, "Sleep Better, Live Longer."
BlueSleep has successfully diagnosed tens of thousands of patients with sleep apnoea using Home Sleep Tests. In very rare cases (less than one percent of cases), you may need to repeat the home sleep test if the transmitted sleep data is equivocal, or insufficient. Even more rarely we may recommend a sleep test in a supervised environment like a sleep lab.
Take a Home Sleep Test
How Our Service Stands Out?
BlueSleep’s is 100% focused on sleep health. That means finding the most innovative and accurate Home Sleep Test and having outstanding sleep specialists to read your results and to provide an expert diagnosis and treatment plan.
Referrals to NHS certified Sleep Consultants
Approved Home Sleep Tests and Interpretation
Pre- and Post-Treatment Home Sleep Test to Measure Success
Sleep advisors to discuss your sleep and sleep test results, and educate you about healthy sleep and treatments like oral appliance therapy, and CPAP, or surgery if necessary.
Comprehensive support throughout the process
How Much Does a Home Sleep Test Cost?
Self-Pay
BlueSleep offers a sleep test shipped to your home for £195.
Shipping
Shipping is included in the price, and you will receive the home sleep test in the mail.
The Home Sleep Test Process
Receive your device for the test
After reviewing your sleep questionnaire and sleep history during the initial visit, the advisor may recommend a Home Sleep Test. We ship the test to arrive at your home usually within three business days.
Follow the instructions
Have no fear. The set-up process is remarkably easy. Just follow the instructions provided below, and watch the instructional videos before use.
Taking the test is easy:
Pair the device with your phone
Place the device on your wrist and/or finger, or neck as instructed
Keep it on all night, even if you get up to go to the bathroom
Don’t delay taking the test
You don’t want to put off your treatment for health reasons, so make sure to do the home sleep test the day you receive it.
Prepare for a follow-up visit to review your results
Your follow-up visit to review your test results is included in the price of the home sleep test. This is the key conversation with our sleep advisors who will interpret the test for you, and discuss treatment options depending on the test results, and your sleep complaints. We will refer you to our network of NHS sleep specialists, Sleep surgeons, or arrange to ship you a CPAP if you have chosen this treatment.
Instructions for Home Sleep Test
WatchPAT ONE
A step-by-step tutorial for setting up your 1-night home sleep test.
FAQs
What is the process to get diagnosed and treated at BlueSleep?
BlueSleep performs sleep apnea and snoring evaluations online. We’ve treated over 20,000 sleep patients. Simply go to BlueSleep.uk to make a convenient appointment with one of our specialist.
You’ll likely need a home sleep test if you haven’t had one within the last few years. We are currently using personal home sleep tests that will be shipped to your home after an online consultation with our sleep advisors. Home sleep tests are approved for diagnosis of sleep apnoea.
A second telemedicine visit is scheduled to review the results of your sleep test and discuss treatment options. If you choose treatment with an oral appliance, we will coordinate a consultation with our networked dental sleep specialists. Our staff will assist you with the process.
If you choose treatment with CPAP, we’ll arrange for a CPAP company to deliver the equipment to your home. We will facilitate the order of the best CPAP machine and mask for your condition.
If you have chosen oral appliance therapy as primary treatment, we’ll discuss shipping a home sleep test usually 8 weeks after you’ve started using the oral appliance to make sure the oral appliance therapy is working well for you. Virtual or in person visits are scheduled every 6-12 months thereafter to assure proper efficacy of the oral appliance treatment, and proper fit of the appliance.
You’ll likely need a home sleep test if you haven’t had one within the last few years. We are currently using personal home sleep tests that will be shipped to your home after an online consultation with our sleep advisors. Home sleep tests are approved for diagnosis of sleep apnoea.
A second telemedicine visit is scheduled to review the results of your sleep test and discuss treatment options. If you choose treatment with an oral appliance, we will coordinate a consultation with our networked dental sleep specialists. Our staff will assist you with the process.
If you choose treatment with CPAP, we’ll arrange for a CPAP company to deliver the equipment to your home. We will facilitate the order of the best CPAP machine and mask for your condition.
If you have chosen oral appliance therapy as primary treatment, we’ll discuss shipping a home sleep test usually 8 weeks after you’ve started using the oral appliance to make sure the oral appliance therapy is working well for you. Virtual or in person visits are scheduled every 6-12 months thereafter to assure proper efficacy of the oral appliance treatment, and proper fit of the appliance.
Is a Home Sleep Test reliable?
Home sleep apnoea testing technology has existed for close to 30 years. We’ve conducted our own medical research on home sleep testing devices. Our research, as well as many others', has shown that home sleep testing is very reliable and in many cases is more likely to provide realistic information about your sleep than a one night sleep study done in a hospital or other type of facility.
Do I need to go to a sleep center?
No. In most cases, a home sleep test is sufficient. Lab sleep studies (Polysomnography or PSG for short) are useful for diagnosing non-sleep apnoea sleep disorders such as narcolepsy; REM behavior disorders, and other less common sleep disorders. The wait time to get a sleep study done in a hospital or sleep lab can be up to one year or longer.
How many nights do I do the Home Sleep Test?
Our specialists recommend doing home sleep testing for a single night or multiple nights, depending on the type of home sleep test we are shipping. Some of the home sleep testing device we use can do many nights of home sleep testing, and all will transmit the sleep data directly to BlueSleep for review and interpretation before your next visit.
Can I view my Home Sleep Test results?
Once the sleep test has been scored and interpreted, our specialist will review the results of the test with you and explain the meaning of the test. Once that visit has occurred, a copy of your test can be made available to you upon request.
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