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by camper
Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:57 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Certified home sleep test kit that doesn't have nasal canola?
Replies: 13
Views: 73182

Re: Certified home sleep test kit that doesn't have nasal canola?

... stop CPAP for 2 weeks to make a valid test. HOWEVER: All the certified home sleep test companies I have looked into, including that one my doctor ... - except the type 2 ones that include EEG and maybe rapid eye movement testing, which none of the home tests my doctor has so far offered to prescribe ...
by camper
Sun Apr 20, 2025 3:23 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Certified home sleep test kit that doesn't have nasal canola?
Replies: 13
Views: 73182

Re: Certified home sleep test kit that doesn't have nasal canola?

My doctor wrote a sleep test prescription for a home sleep test from Snap Diagnostics. Do you know ... and are their results fairly trustworthy, relative to other home sleep test companies? They have two types of testing kit, and can't tell me yet which I will receive, ...
by jsmit86
Wed Mar 12, 2025 6:53 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Do I need a Sleep Doc?
Replies: 9
Views: 11515

Re: Do I need a Sleep Doc?

When I started CPAP, I had an in home sleep study, and only consulted my regular DOC. That was OK, but I also had suffered ... doc. I followed up with him after my hospital stay. He did a lot of testing, and the testing determined conclusively that I did not have COPD. Once that ...
by stevesleep1
Mon Aug 12, 2024 8:18 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Stevesleep1 - CPAP Therapy Optimisation...in the UK
Replies: 6
Views: 6385

Stevesleep1 - CPAP Therapy Optimisation...in the UK

... here, appreciate any help. CONTEXT: - Home sleep test showed no sleep apnea. AHI was around ... PROBLEM - Waking up frequently. I've been testing these settings for a while, they have worked ... (My theories): I am just guessing but... At the start of my therapy, with the nasal pillows, ...
by SleepyKTR
Thu Jul 25, 2024 1:59 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Help...brand new to everything
Replies: 24
Views: 16957

Re: Help...brand new to everything

I'm a little worried about what insurance will cover, but that's true for just about ... they need medical assistance / medication / testing done and an insurance company can decide whether ... I have family here, I suppose if I have to come home for an appointment I can (it would just be a lot ...
by JoeyK74
Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:51 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Can someone advise on these results? It was posted on my chart but dr isn’t available for another week.
Replies: 1
Views: 4373

Can someone advise on these results? It was posted on my chart but dr isn’t available for another week.

Respiratory Events The patient had 93 hypopneas and 2 apneas ... underestimated due to limited montage recorded during home testing
by JoeyK74
Fri Jul 12, 2024 12:47 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Can someone advise on these results? It was posted on my chart but dr isn’t available for another week.
Replies: 1
Views: 4345

Can someone advise on these results? It was posted on my chart but dr isn’t available for another week.

Also if it normal for heart rate to be 47 and 109? Respiratory Events The patient ... due to limited montage recorded during home testing
by Bubbles2024
Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:38 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Why,? Why do I keep using this machine?
Replies: 37
Views: 36544

Re: Why,? Why do I keep using this machine?

... bedroom. Now you've upped the ante and say that you don't want people to see you with the actual ... your insulin in the refrigerator or your blood testing kits on the counter? Would you insist that ... strong-willed and stubborn. So, I brought it home and said, "Let's do this" I have been doing ...
by nmevan
Mon Jul 01, 2024 9:10 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: The Ring? At home sleep study.
Replies: 1
Views: 4291

The Ring? At home sleep study.

Hello, good people. I will be doing an at home sleep study. My sleep doc is having me wear a ring. ... doc about it yet. Am I right? Also...are there apnea testing "rings" that I could purchase that are the equivalent ...
by Lady.J
Thu Jun 27, 2024 2:48 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Want to try a different mask...suggestions?
Replies: 15
Views: 42721

INSPIRE - Beware

I had never found a negative review on INSPIRE. I would have had this 6 years ... nothing I expected or wanted. The first evening home from hospital, I threw up bile for more than 3 ... all of my lower teeth, and the top front ones. The testing was stopped at this point. They spoke directly ...
by LG1819
Wed Jun 19, 2024 7:50 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: In the UK....Seeking advice on whether or not to pursue CPAP
Replies: 32
Views: 42642

In the UK....Seeking advice on whether or not to pursue CPAP

... by my surgeon to the functional consideration -- namely that my airway is small which puts ... that. Therefore, I've been looking to the home tests, but have also heard they can be vert inaccurate. I've also seen people disregard the testing altogether, and simply just buy a CPAP machine ...
by BigWing
Sat Jun 15, 2024 9:40 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: personal, at home sleep apnea test?
Replies: 19
Views: 26020

Re: personal, at home sleep apnea test?

... just speaking from my own experience. I had the 2-prongs all night at my NHS hospital, yet they claim to have done some CPAP testing (for 11 minutes). Mind you they only used 0.1 mbar - which seems to be just 0.1 cm ...
by nmevan
Sun May 26, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: personal, at home sleep apnea test?
Replies: 19
Views: 26020

personal, at home sleep apnea test?

Is there a testing device one can purchase to check to see if they have sleep apnea without having a sleep study test performed by a medical sleep specialist? I have been diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and I sleep with a BIPAP ...
by bbridge_GA
Sat May 25, 2024 1:28 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Smart ring at home testing for sleep apnea
Replies: 25
Views: 9373

Re: Smart ring at home testing for sleep apnea

... in Jacksonville. I also had the SD card with data from the past year of almost 100% compliance. ... using the company with the smart ring for at home testing anymore. Apparently, the company was supposed to ...
by GolfGardener
Sun May 05, 2024 3:12 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Airmini Review
Replies: 5
Views: 43197

Airmini Review

--- TLDR: The Airmini is a great travel solution once you've hacked it to reduce ... noise that had seemed perfectly reasonable when testing out the mask fit during the day was deafening ... with sticky tape. I tried that and used this home-brewed solution the next night with much, much ...