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<p>[QUOTE="Six9GS, post: 11680951, member: 102286"]I think, if you have sleep apnea, you get a med card that requires you to use a CPAP. And, the CPAP machine has to have some accessible log showing you are actually using it.</p><p>That's the jest of what others have said.</p><p>I had a sleep study done a couple years before I started driving. Long story short, I'd been in a depression for several years and Doc wanted to see if perhaps I had apnea, which could be a significant contributing factor to depression. I, fortunately, don't have apnea, but because I had the study, I had to provide the results to them to show I didn't.</p><p>PS. I finally got through my depression. Once again, long story short, it was a situational thing, once Imwas finally able to,change the situation, the depression left. Thank God! Depression sucks!!! (I tried a couple different meds. They made me feel OK with being depressed, but didn't actually help with the depression itself. So, didn't stay on them too long.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Six9GS, post: 11680951, member: 102286"]I think, if you have sleep apnea, you get a med card that requires you to use a CPAP. And, the CPAP machine has to have some accessible log showing you are actually using it. That's the jest of what others have said. I had a sleep study done a couple years before I started driving. Long story short, I'd been in a depression for several years and Doc wanted to see if perhaps I had apnea, which could be a significant contributing factor to depression. I, fortunately, don't have apnea, but because I had the study, I had to provide the results to them to show I didn't. PS. I finally got through my depression. Once again, long story short, it was a situational thing, once Imwas finally able to,change the situation, the depression left. Thank God! Depression sucks!!! (I tried a couple different meds. They made me feel OK with being depressed, but didn't actually help with the depression itself. So, didn't stay on them too long.)[/QUOTE]
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