Yes, they mail it to your house. The first contact I had with them was when I called them to ask them to mail it immediately, as my old insuror was going to retrieve the CPAP I had been renting. They threatened me with collections if I didn't pay my share (I had made no statement that I wouldn't) an...

Yes, Kaiser is into prevention, not intervention!

The RTs work for Kaiser.

Thanks for you response and link! Was this doctor in the Sacramento area? If so, would you send me a PM with his name? I worked for years in hospitals directly with MDs and have dealt with that arrogance and impatience. What I learned is that a doc's "bedside manner" has little correlation with his ...

I guess I will go ahead and make the "mask fit" appt. and see which RT I get and how it goes on a one-to-one basis. After all, I just met him once in a classroom situation, where he was having to deal with many people at once, and since then it's just been by email. It'll be my chance to educate the...

If you come to Santa Rosa, I'll tell you who to ask for OK, but I hope I don't have to take you up on it! I hate to get my RT in trouble, he seems a nice enough guy but just way busy and not too up on things, I guess. Maybe I'll just hang around in the waiting room at the sleep clinic and ask every...

Thank you so much for all your responses! I have Kaiser in the Sacramento area. I had my original sleep study done through Sutter Health (sort of mediocre study, as I was awake for most of it), was on CPAP for one month with the Remstar Auto A-flex and the Opus nasal pillow mask, then switched to Ka...

Is anyone else in this situation? My primary MD requested a sleep study for me, the results of my sleep study were "reviewed" by a sleep doctor and then settings were recommended and my primary MD actually wrote the Rx for the machine, which was mailed to me. I have never met with a doctor (just a R...

My mouthguard is actually for sleep apnea/hypopnea. By moving my mandible forward, I was able to sleep much better, but it has altered my bite so that I cannot chew with my molars any more. It worked less and less as the year went on, which is why I went in for a new sleep study (I got the mouthguar...

Yes, it definitely is a weird sensation, and it does indeed feel like something is "slamming shut", there never seems to be any warning. I've tried to shift my tongue around but of course I can't control that once I'm falling asleep. How did you manage to keep your mouth taped? I was unable to inhal...

Hello all, I've enjoyed all the info I've been learning the last 2 weeks, but haven't been able to find anything about an issue I have; or maybe I just don't understand the anatomy of OSA. Even before I started CPAP (I've been on 4 months now), I noticed that as I relax, my exhale gets obstructed in...