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by Kilgore Trout
Tue May 10, 2011 2:39 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: The day before the DME delivers my first machine
Replies: 35
Views: 7348

Re: The day before the DME delivers my first machine

The initial results of operation "take the power back" were fruitful. When I called the American Sleep Medicine, I told them I wanted a copy of my prescription, and both of my sleep study reports. I said that since I hadn't met with any doctors since my PCP, and nobody's telling me anything other th...
by Kilgore Trout
Tue May 10, 2011 11:11 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: The day before the DME delivers my first machine
Replies: 35
Views: 7348

Re: The day before the DME delivers my first machine

Thanks for the great replies everyone... you'd think that as a skeptical person by nature (and reader/listener to may science & skepticism blogs and podcasts) I'd have my crap-detector with me, but I guess in my rush to not forget my pillow on the way to the titration, I left it at home. Crap-detect...
by Kilgore Trout
Tue May 10, 2011 10:45 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New and Desperate...
Replies: 73
Views: 16215

Re: New and Desperate...

I feel like we're in the same IT-geek-who-just-found-out-they're-bad-at-breathing freshman class. My DME meeting's tomorrow, but I'm thinking of canceling and doing things on my own terms (I've been getting shoved around by the sleep docs). Good luck, it sounds like you're off on the right foot!
by Kilgore Trout
Tue May 10, 2011 8:48 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: The day before the DME delivers my first machine
Replies: 35
Views: 7348

The day before the DME delivers my first machine

Hi everyone, I found out a week and a half ago that I have sleep apnea, and this whole thing's been a bumpy ride. My GP sent me for a sleep study due to snoring and daytime sleepiness (I've almost fallen asleep driving to work), and after the first night wired up a la The Matrix, I got a call right ...