Sleep Hell Part 3 (The Final Chapter. Maybe....)

It is not problem to get recalibrated.

 

Yep it is done with another sleep test.

I suggested that you don't take anything and it seems others warned you too.

 

The doctor can just tell the place you get the CPAP. Also, I would ask for the lowest setting they will let your start with. This is how I did mine, However, I hate the thing with a passion!

 

Man, there aren't many careers that are as intrusive as this one. Who the heck could relax when they're being watched by a total strange, after being poked and prodded with a bunch of nodes, wires and an uncomfortable mask?

Now all the companies are putting driver facing cameras in trucks so they can give you a call about you taking a hand off the wheel to pick your nose or piss in a gatorade bottle.

Hearing about all these invasive trends, really gives me pause about getting into the industry. It used to be that trucking was about the freedom, but it seems like they're pretty close to eliminating that sense of freedom.

 

My mother-in-law had to get one in order to stay on her late husbands insurance (and medicare). So, it's not just truck drivers who are being screwed by this issue. Several times a year she has to pull the memory card and go see the sleep doctor(it had a wireless connection, but it kept saying she never used the machine, so they disabled it and went the sdcard route). She has had it recalibrated twice, and the doctor says her readings are good...but it has made no improvent in her sleep or her health, if anything she gets less sleep now than before...she hates it, but is forced to use it by the powers that be...ahhhh it's great living in the land of the free.

 

They'll calibrate it with the info they have. The good news is, the new CPAPs will auto calibrate as you sleep and change the pressure depending on how you're sleeping.