Sleep test?

In my state of TN I believe the doctors office submits their exams to the state and when the state gets notice of those new exams it cancels your old DOT exam. If you haven't submitted your self-certification soon enough after the new DOT exam the state can downgrade your CDL to a passenger car license.

 

Some docs have a private business selling sleep clinic/sleep studies, or they have a partner with such a business. It's a conflict of interest, but it's legal. Maybe the sleep study requirement is based on the doc's desire for money or maybe it's genuine. This comes up fairly often so make sure to read all the replies or search for older threads. There is probably a way around this. Once thing I learning is that it's usually safer to get your DOT exam from a Chiropractor than lost of MD offices. Often Chiropractors are also leery of the medical industry and they are not looking to send a patient to every possible medical office for any problem. Good luck.

 

The most recent DOT medical exam is the "real" medical exam.

 

The will give you a sedative for the sleep test. Apparently sleep clinics have fixed "banker's hours" and even if you have been sleeping days for 20 years or whatever, you have to sleep on the schedule of the sleep clinic for them to do their job. You are not the first person to not find that sleeping with wires glued to your head is not how you sleep well. Once you do the test you will have proof you don't have sleep apnea. The doctors runs the system and also help makes the rules. It doesn't have to be fair.

 

I did mine at home. I went to the office. Got the equipment. Hooked it up, slept, dropped it off in morning and follow up appointment.

 

look AND listen......good luck.

 

Cool. I didn't know that was an option. I vaguely remember a billboard near Amarillo advertising some sort of sleep test at home that advertised heir website, which I can't remember. I would jump all over a home sleep study. Thanks for posting.

 

play the game, have it done, and then follow the treatment plan because it will come up on your next DOT.

ALSO lose weight.