Sleep study cost?

Oh, OK. Please cite your facts to back this up seeing as how sleep Apnea has been being treated long before the DOT got involved and pushed it into the trucking industry.

Yes, they do. That hardly invalidates the fact that sleep Apnea is a real condition that effects millions.

I must be, same goes for my father who used to sleep for 1-2 hrs a night and was prescribed meds for sleeping for years while at one point literally started showing signs of loosing his mind from the extended sleep deprivation. Must be mind over matter that going on CPAP fixed him within a couple weeks and hasn't had a problem since.

The fact that the DOT Medical exam process has been tainted by scumbags looking to screw with people has no connection to sleep apnea being a very real medical condition.

 

Do people know how sleep apnea works and how the check to see if you have it ? I went through a sleep study and it pretty interesting to see what they can tell about you when you think nothing is wrong.

The first night they hook you up to about 20 sensors and they see if you stop breathing and they can even see when you brain hours in to REM sleep. They can count how many time you stop breathing per hour and for how long eat Event is. That the important part your Events Per Hour. Because 1-4 events per hour is actually normal for everyone. They also count how long you stop breathing. It needs to be 10 seconds or more to count as an Event. So 10-40 seconds per hour is normal for everyone. Some people have more Events then normal and as you can imagine not breathing will really mess up your body and your sleep.

The scale they use to have sleep apnea stages. Normal, mild moderate and sever. Look at the server level. That's 37 Events per hour, each one would be 10 second long. That 370 seconds per hour of not breathing or 6 minutes of not breather per hour. Try holding you breath 6 minutes and see how you feel. That's the problem some drivers have and since they are sleeping they don't even know it. If you sleep 6 hours that 36 minutes of not breathing. Obviously that would kill you, but you brain is smart it knows you not breathing and it tries all night to save you life. It tries to wake you up, it will even pump adrenaline into you body trying to get you to breath again. So now imagine your sleeping 7 hour you body has been pumping adrenaline all night trying to save you life. Guess what happens when you wake up in the morning. You feel tired like you just did not sleep well for some reason. You maybe had some really crazy dreams, like maybe you were about to die and woke up sweating a little a because you just had some crazy dream. That's you brain trying to save you life for the most part.

If you have normal sleep, you will see that the first night of a sleep study. They will say you had 1-4 events per hour, your in the normal rang.

 

When I did my sleep study, they put the CPAP machine on me after a recorded139 stop breathing episodes... I have been on the machine since late June...