Great News! (Kind of)

No one, repeat no one is saying sleep apnea doesn't exist or that people don't have it. We are saying that the tests, especially the criterea in which they are administered is crap.

 

It's amazing how much better you feel after using the CPAP. And I know EXACTLY what you mean when you say you never realized how much sleep you were missing.

 

Perhaps, for some...I can't disagree with you. However, my experience was professional and absolutely life saving. I guess in the trucking industry some places see nothing but dollar signs. For all the sacrifices you truckers make to provide me with EVERYTHING in my house....you deserve better.

 

I can't fully deny that. My first was a home study in which I admit, I did everything I could to mitigate the problem because I just wanted to get to work. #### my health, I needed to earn. I slapped the gear on as instructed then instead of going to bed I sat up in my lazy boy for the night, with a pillow propped behind my head to keep me as upright as possible. Now someone with a milder case than I have might have been able to pass the test in this way.

And just because I have a fat neck (always have) and I'm a bit overweight (I'm sure I'm the first north american with this problem....) I have to do a test???

Wait.....where was I going with this argument.....

 

Be very wary for any big Phamacutical chemicals they give you to sleep nothing beats a simple glass of warm milk mixed with about a teaspoon of manuka honey works a treat for a fraction of the price with no side effects (the medical professionals won't tell you this) also try cherry juice mixed with some wine if your at home and not driving!!!

 

I thought they give drugs? I'm a night driver. The chances of me sleeping at the convenience of a sleep center are zero. I understood they gave you a sleep potion if you were not sleeping.

 

Hopefully, restless leg syndrome was code for u kicked em when they got near ya.

 

So they get to bill twice for the same work.

Make it a 10 pound bar of xanax next time.

Sleep labs do not get to sleep. They will let you sleep the first night to get baseline data and when you thought all is heaven the second day they start waking you up just when you get close to dreamland every few hours.

I already know what will happen if they woke me inside of 4 hours they have a raging bear on their hands medicine is bad enough.

There is no way anyone is going to watch me sleep it's one thing being smashed up in a hospital up to here in pain meds and on heart monitor. But trying to sleep with computers, wires and a staff watching? It's not happening.

 

Restless leg, or from Seinfeld, Jimmy legs, ain't no joke.

 

Here is my point. If I say to a doctor that I sleep very well, then that should be the end of it. I was told i needed a sleep study at my last physical and I told the doc to shove it and I went somewhere else. I wrote a thread about it on here. The questionnaire should be sufficient. The next thing that bothers me is the reporting requirements. As soon as they develop a machine that monitors corrective lense use or other medication use then that requirement might make sense. I feel it is a massive invasion of privacy and I feel that this apnea thing is by and large a huge money making scheme. When I tell the doctor I don't have problems sleeping and they refuse to believe me then I have a huge problem.