Sleep Apnea

Last I heard Awake in America was pretty much out of business.

You may have better luck with the St. Christopher Truckers Development and Relief Fund.

Phoenix Sleep Solutions does inexpensive home sleep studies. . They were at the MATS truck show in Louisville. Home studies will be about $ 300.

 

You are correct, the only thing that the regs currently state about sleep apnea is that a driver may not operate a vehicle with untreated sleep apnea. If you are under doctor's care and following his medical advice then you are complying with the regs.

 

Thankfully my regular physician arranged to have the sleep study done at my house. They show up with a machine and spend all the time you need to understand how you use it. Basically you wear it for 2 nights and they come and pick it up and take it back to their clinic where a Doctor reviews all the data including all the notes the delivery technician took. Age, Height, Weight, Physical activity are all taken into consideration.

The results were well within the normal range. As my Doctor put it, "Some of the Concentra doctors finished 30th in a class of 35..The final straw was a day after my exam. I get a call from their records keeper and she asks me to elaborate on the chest surgery I had 2 years ago. I was still pissed so my response was " Tell that fat doctor to get her hearing checked, I told her I had the surgery when I was 2 YEARS OLD..

 

I was compelled to join this forum. My dad was an otr for years, and he put me through school running the interstates... As a respiratory therapist and sleep expert ( >20 yrs. ) .

 

It is a scam. I am not saying it does not exist at all but the problem is not as big as they make it out to be. I am 5-11 and weigh 175# and have a 15 inch neck. You can look at me and tell I am a pencil neck geek yet they still break out the tape measure when I go get my physical? Tell me it ain't a scam...

 

And our DOT physicals are done at Concentra...imagine that!

 

Crete Carriers will put you thru an apnea test on their dime. If you have it then they will pay for machine and deduct money from your check every week for the machine.