sleepinginseattle wrote:
I agree with what you're saying but not the analogy that you draw with glucose meters.
Glucose meters are consumer products (in other words, designed for patients). They are designed to give information to diabetes sufferers and to be used after the patient has received training from a diabetes educator.
I am a treated diabetic, have been for over 20 years, and the Dr.s that treated me knew as much about diabeta and the people that treat me for apnea know about apnea. They don't have first hand knowledge about the problem, some have book learning tainted by the drug indrusty.
My treatment for diabeta, with drugs has left me with poor health and feet that are more dead than alive, sure I'm also to blame for this. I had a family to raise, that became my priority, I did the treatment with drugs and they didn't work, as is normal for most people, that really have diabetes. (Most Dr.s even the ones that specialize in it don't have a working idea about how to manage it, except with drugs. Now it's easy to be get a diabetic label without having the disease.
Anyway to bring this to a ending, I have two Dr's treating me for it, each giving me a different type of Insulin, and I mix it according to my needs, kinda like I used to mix explosive charges, in the mines. "By the seat of my pants." As Captain Kirk, Told Spock, "He would, rather trust His guess, than most peoples logic."
The treatment for most normal Apnea, doesn't involve Rocket Science, We just need to be able to breath air, while we sleep. For most of us lucky people that just takes adding a little air pressure to out throats to hold our airways open. With a good blower and common sense, it's not very dangerious, if you add the use of software to monitor your progress. It's a lot less risky than my guessing the loadof Insulin, and I'm still here on both counts. Jim
Actually, blowing up rocks, is safer than insulin, you usually knew what you were going to get from a certain weight of ANFO, you can never be sure how the body will react to a dose of Insulin, so most of the time you have to error with a lower dose.
