What is the cheapest home sleep apnea test?

Would you trust a home CT scan?
Would you trust a home heart defibrillator?
Would you trust a home liposuction machine?

Come on for real???

Go to a clinic that specializes in such a test and have a medical professional interpret the results.

 

The fact is if your medical card physical doctor says that he suspects you need cpap therapy and you say well I took a home test that said that I hooked up to a automatic set cpap and it said my numbers said I have sleep aphnea that will not be good enough to renew your medical card you must have a certified doctor sign off on your therapy otherwise it is no good and you are waisting whatever money it will cost to go the cheap route

 

I was always tired behind the wheel and went in to be tested my AHI was 95 that means I stoped breathing 95 times per hour and my oxygen stats were down to 70 percent sleep aphnea is nothing to mess around with it can kill you if it is bad enough

 

Ionmysleep.com home sleep study is DOT approved. You put the machine on and go to sleep and then in the morning you send the machine back to the company to analyze the data the machine collected. If the results show no sleep Apnea the DOT medical examiner can access your results and see that. If your results do show sleep Apnea you can go to your regular doctor and determine a course of treatment. Many Doctors and insurance companies are going with in home testing.

 

Man, I'm really tired of hearing all the sheep talk about CPAP testing as if even half of it were legitimate. The only epidemic we need to worry about in this industry is drivers getting screwed over with little to no options. I'm a human ####### being. I got strapped with one of these god #### machines. Been at least 3 months now. It's a worthless piece of #### for me. YES, I KNOW, SLEEP APNEA IS REAL!!! But not everyone getting diagnosed has it.

Don't be idiots. Do you get tired halfway through the day? Do you wake up a lot during the night? Wife threatening to leave you over snoring? If you don't suffer from any of these obvious problems, you probably don't have sleep apnea. These tests are ########. Do you actually know what these doctors are talking about? How does your blood oxygen level work? What are these devices actually recording..? They claim that they're telling you your blood oxygenation, but how? By your pulse, by counting your breathes..? It's like saying that I'd die if I chose to hold my breath for 2 seconds 30 times in an hour. Seriously, don't be mindless sheep, question things!!!

For the nosy people that haven't even seen one of these machines and want to pipe in on how important they are... You don't know what you're talking about. Simple. Put one on your face for an hour. Sleep one ###### night with one. It's inhumane to tell perfectly healthy (fat) drivers that they need to wear one of these masks EVERY NIGHT (imagine sleeping with a woman and having to put this mask on, I won't) or throw their CDL out the window.

So OP, if you need to be tested, or are trying to get a negative test for sleep apnea, do whatever you think is going to do that best. Be very careful of company run tests, especially those that sell you the machines themselves. If they sell machines, they're going to tell you you have sleep apnea.

 

Well put Brandson.

 

I was a lol edgy that day, lol. I've gotten used to the ###### thing, because I can't afford to get rid of it, but I do still go into a blind rage on occasion when I think about it, lol.

 

Unless I'm missing some sarcasm, there's nothing "well put" about that.

I'm overweight, took Prime's sleep apnea test, and it came back negative.. I don't particularly trust Prime, or any carrier that has a similar program - I think it's highly suspicious that their doctor recommends you for the study, they arrange all the testing, and they essentially house the company that runs the tests and sells the CPAP... but you're extremely ignorant (or maybe just in denial) if you think that being overweight or obese is healthy, or any of that other crap.

The pulse oximeter* (the thing they put on your finger) measures your blood oxygen saturation and pulse.

Holding your breath voluntarily while awake vs involuntarily not breathing, while sleeping, for periods usually longer than a second or two, is bad. The sensors on your head and face measure when you're asleep and what stage of sleep you are in. The sensors on your chest measure breathing. The sensor on your finger measures oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood.

Sleep is an active (and important!) process - it's not just lying in bed with your eyes closed. Not breathing affects the quality of your sleep. Hopefully you're making some connections here.

For someone who exclaims "question things!!" you apparently didn't do much of that (or you just didn't hear the answers). You're the sheep if you think sleep apnea and CPAP therapy was created to bilk drivers out cash or to get rid of the fatties. Maybe the risks are overstated, but it's a risk I wouldn't be taking if I owned a fleet of trucks. The company's reputation, property, and peoples lives are at stake here. It should all be done through an off site, third party of the drivers choice, though. They can vet the third party all they want, of course.

Sounds like the lack of oxygen, caused by your sleep apnea, which was probably caused by your obesity, has caused some brain damage - good news though, with CPAP treatment apparently it is reversible.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_oximetry

 

All you did was spout out what everyone already knows and your own opinion. Your testing was just one scenario, they can't fail EVERYONE, and I have no idea how Prime's test works.

 

It's not a pass or fail. It's about being diagnosed by a doctor that had no business even treating you, let alone diagnosing you, they don't even know you. They can suggest this crap, but it should not be a hire/fire event. It is more like a band of companies joining forces to cover their ##### and reduce liability in case of an accident.

Those that benefit from it, God bless you and continue with it if you feel better. But there's no way to cure what does not exist.