"complicance" software is making a huge difference

My sleep doctor has been difficult over the years. He has always blamed my not sleeping well on my not being compliant. I kept telling him that I used the machine all the time, but he didn't believe me. He had 100% faith that the machine was right and I wasn't using it.

In fact, it's taken three visits in a row (over a 1 year period), for him to believe me since I switched to the Goodnight CPAP which he can download and get compliance data.

Today I went in, he downloaded the machine, saw that I was 100% compliant (yet again), and that I was getting 6 1/2 hours average on the machine (I've had a few very sleepless nights.)

So the ball is squarely in his court now, and he even wrote scripts for a new humidifier (so I can travel with one), and scripts for a new mask. He is even going to get it set up so I get a new liner every month (I have the
F&P full face mask.

Make sure any CPAP machine you get these days DOES have the compliance monitoring feature. That means when you are sleeping well, it's the doctor's problem, NOT yours.

Kathleen,

Good for you! ...Using the tools available to you to support your position with your Doc. I doubt he will question what you tell him again.

wading thru the muck! wrote:Kathleen,

Good for you! ...Using the tools available to you to support your position with your Doc. I doubt he will question what you tell him again.

And now he is trying some different approaches.

More good news on this -- he agreed with me that I needed the travel humidfier and agreed that a new mask was needed, though I had to remind him that I paid for the first mask out of pocket, so I wanted a second mask. The new DME called before 5:00 pm and are coming out to the house at 4:30. That's the absolute best service I've gotten EVER.