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It's possible to make it a little shorter. There are at home sleep studies, and the modern machines are usually have an auto mode that automatically adjusts th
by cdjk 11y ago
It's possible to make it a little shorter. There are at home sleep studies, and the modern machines are usually have an auto mode that automatically adjusts the pressure, which typically eliminates the need for the titration study.
Trying to get a CPAP covered by insurance is a pain, but if you have a prescription you can get one online and pay for it yourself - the same is true for supplies.
Also, there's tons of interesting data you can get off the machine, if you get one that's data capable (you really, really want one that. Take a look at the program sleepyhead:
http://www.sleepfiles.com/SH2/ http://www.sleepfiles.com/SH2/
Monitoring things yourself with your own data is really the way to go. It makes the sleep data you get from a jawbone/fitbit/etc look extremely minimal.
- vonmoltke 11y ago> Trying to get a CPAP covered by insurance is a pain, but if you have a prescription you can get one online and pay for it yourself - the same is true for supplies. I was pissed when I found out the cash price for my machine at cpap.com was less than the insurance co-pay I made for it. Insurance is not always worth the crap you have to go through.
- Steve44 11y agoA partial solution is to get one of the finger blood O2 meters that will record, keep it on overnight and you get a log of heartrate and O2 levels in the blood. Look at your O2 levels and see how low the percentage goes, if you get some serious dips then you quite possibly have a serious apnoea problem and need to get it properly checked ASAP. I think you should be in the 90-100% range, go below 80% and you're really heading towards trouble. When you stop breathing your O2 falls. (Usual disclaimer, I'm not a doctor etc)