Right on. I do appreciate the advice.

He has your credit card number for monthly charges - of what? "Supplies"? Most of us need and use far far less supplies than DME's charge for. But, your number is alread registered with him, and apparently he can already charge your credit card -- without even having supplied you a machine - i.e. w...

I mean, I get that. But at the same time if this guy was just out to pocket some easy cash I feel like he wouldn't have said anything and just given me the machine. Then if I had to come back to swap it out and pay again, he could just say tough luck. I guess bottom line is I need to wait until they...

...What I'm hearing is that the doctor and/or sleep lab used the home study as a screening test, and then they will use an in lab titration to be certain that your sleep apnea is being adequately treated by the machine prescribed. This makes perfect sense to me. Sounds like they know what they are ...

I'm 41, and no, they didn't say I can't drive.

I do have insurance. And I'm feeling now like I got the quick-and-dirty diagnosis. The PA literally only told me I stop breathing 70 times an hour, and my blood oxygen dropped too low for a certain amount of time. I wasn't given a report or explained what central apneas are or told about different m...

...If "they"" scheduled you for a sleep lab study, based on your at home results, what did "they" see that caused it? To answer this specifically, the PA didn't tell me the in-lab study was because of anything specific that was found during the at-home test. She told me that when I got my machine i...

Okay, to clarify things a bit... I've snored for a long time. I knew it, and when I got married it became an issue for my wife's quality of sleep. Over the past few years I've gained a little weight, and of course that didn't help. So with the encouragement of my wife, I bit the bullet and talked to...

Interesting. I mean, the way it was explained to me at the sleep lab made sense. Like you said, I feel like the plan was to get me on a machine ASAP and then tweak the details later. But my DME person AND his sales rep said they had NEVER heard of this kind of scenario. It's honestly made me feel un...

So this past Friday I had an appointment at my DME to get my machine and get started with CPAP. He asks me if I had an at-home or in-lab sleep study, and I tell him I had one at home, and was scheduled for an in-lab study in a couple weeks. This stopped him dead in his tracks. He asks me to clarify....