Sleep apnea - watching me sleep

It's not a religion, you just don't understand how someone can't tell when they are tired. People go to sleep driving every day and drive off the road. Do you think they planned on that ?? Of course not. They thought they could keep going because they could not understand how tired they are. How hard is that to understand ???

You ask about their AHI number to so you can understand how bad their sleep apnea is. If you don't know or ask you can't understand how little sleep they are getting. Since you can't see or understand the big picture because your not willing to get the full or correct Info, you get side tracked into believing it all a money grab.

If you were not so narrow minded you could look beyond your missing Information and maybe learn something. If you choose not to, that does not make your opinion any better then anyone else.

 

So if half are obese and we test them, why are the other half not being tested? Since they are only testing the obese, and they account for half, but are 7 in 10, that means 3 of the 10 that are not obese make up a larger percentage, they account for the other half. So using BMI is not really doing anything in the name of safety.
My BP is high, and I will never be off it, it is hereditary. I take 3 different meds to control it. I am not obese, in my house you won't find a salt shaker, I cycle a 400 - 500 miles a month, no tobacco use, and I have no self inflicted health issues. Why should I be penalized? I have done nothing unhealthy, and at 56 are healthier than most. Health care insurers are all for profit, very few non-profits left, and most healthy folks pay the penalty. The only way you will ever keep costs down is to require everyone pays, risk in any insurance industry, auto, home, life, health, is based on a shared risk pool.

 

You can believe anything you want and so can everyone else loggerhead. Just don't act like you know everything because you don't.

 

This has me thinking, I get a 1 year card, I am on BP meds, 3 of them to keep it normal, and as my cardiologist says, I will probably one day be on 4 of them. I am not obese, and I check it regularly myself, and go in every 6 months. Hypertension is called the silent killer, and for good reason, it kills folks on a regular basis.
Think about this, if I have sleep apnea some companies will monitor my usage and if I don't use it as often as they want, I get terminated. Yet I have high BP, if I stop taking my meds would be in the neighborhood of 220/178, yet the company does not monitor me to see if I am taking my pills, nor do they care. All they care is once a year I walk in for my DOT, they put on the cuff and I pass.
I think if you have a Dr, your Dr should monitor it with you, not someone in a company office that has no idea what your health history is, and is looking at the bigger picture, not did someone wear their mask last night.

 

Was just reading a newer study that says those diagnosed with apnea, the percentage of obesity is over 70%. That means the other 8-10 causes is split over 30%.

 

So the original numbers were wrong. Did they say what they consider to be obese? Call around, every company is using a different number, it will vary from 34% to 39%, and some if your neck is over 16, all the way to 18. This is why no one trust the company Dr over theirs, they are all over the place, no one uses the same standards, so it looks to the layperson there is no scientific basis for it, someone is sitting behind the mirror and flipping coin.