90 day DOT medical card issued/Sleep test required, Need advice please

I use my cpap every night....it is the only way I get good sleep. If you have sleep apnea, you will use the cpap and love the full face mask. My wife likes me not snoring too!
I also have a deviated septum, which means I tend to be a mouth breather at night. A plastic surgeon said he could fix that for me, about 15 years ago, but I passed on that.

I do not use the humidification option though. That means I don’t have to clean the hose evry night or evry week. I didn’t like the warm humid air from it in the summer anyway.

My sleep study showed my apnea was severe and was caused by my brain, and not a restricted airway. So it was not a weight problem.

 

My situation is not a weight problem either. I just happen to be a 47 year old caucasian who due to hereditary has to take blood pressure meds and since I am of German dissent have a naturally larger neck than most. The examiners have said the 4 things that triggered the sleep study for me were.
1) age
2)white male
3)neck size
4)meds
Don’t assume you are safe from it because you are not “overweight”
Typical Dot M. O. =
Trucks not overweight let’s get them for something else trivial.

 

The medical experts - especially the "apnea is not a big deal" ones - on this board all look like this.

An inch on your neck is 35-50lbs on the rest of you.

A doctor is giving you sound advice, and you're basically sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling as to not hear him.

 

More medical issues kicking more people out onto the streets. Either a low wage, service job, or petty crime. Especially if a career-ender happens at an age where a career change is adversely affected by age discrimination. What a toasted world.

 

A ER doc prescribed me a Alltenloll which is a older beta blocker to slow the heart down a little bit for a month, I learned to take it when needed not by what the label said. My heart doc probably will prescribe some of it long term once he sees the charts I am fixing to turn in on our last appt soon. Otherwise I am on my own.

The medical system in Arkansas has been comprehensively destroyed from my view since about 2005. Up to 2005 whatever you needed the doc gave it and only if you needed it and no one cared much. Fast forward to 2007 obummer act and forwards into the opiate wars in this state there is no old time medical care to be seen around the local area anymore. If one doctor knows you need a heart something guess what you go to the heart doc to get it. If the heart doc knows you need other medicines, you go to more doctors to get it. No one will prescribe everything like they used to in one stop. Nor carry a risk of prescribing something that is known to conflict.

The net result is a accumulation of copays at the office handing over 50.00 a time, 10 visits in a month thats 500.00. Which is almost half what I take in. Then endure the additional billing that constantly leaks out of insurance to hundreds more or so surprise bills for various services.

Where I sit I am making or have made a decision to simply walk away from some of my docs. If there is a problem they can cart me to either trauma, ER or funeral home. And that would be that. No more musical doctors ring round the posy paying out to everyone unwilling to do anything of note because all of them are afraid of the DEA (Who holds their prescribing license) and the State PMB who holds everything else.

There is one medicine or two rather thats still legal as far as I am concerned, A touch of wild turkey and a cigar in a few hours takes care of whatever ails. Its crazy. That or relocating to a new state that has none of the legislative bans or limits imposed in medicines including non traditional medicines legal elsewhere. I would be the last person to find a gypsy for down home medical care using what grows in the garden. But the more my state gets nutter about medical stuff, the easier it is to consider walking away from all of them. Ive already left some doctors behind for good. (And no longer take medicines that are hot stuff...)

I generally make it known that if the subject of sleep came up I am a trucker, I sleep when I need to and not a minute longer day or night. It matters not to me. That usually takes care of any of that sleep lab or apnea talk. And even at this hour being a night owl who needs sleep. Not me.