Finding a sleep doctor

I was diagnosed with OSA last month. In order to get my sleep study I went to my primary care doctor for my yearly physical. While I was there I mentioned that I was often tired throughout the day, and that my wife had mentioned that I sometimes made choking sounds in my sleep. My doctor then scheduled a sleep study for me at the local hospital's sleep medicine center. The results came back along with a recommendation for a CPAP at 10 cm H2O, and that is exactly what I now have.

My question is how do I find a sleep specialist? Or do I even need to? I suppose I can always talk to my doctor if I feel that my current therapy isn't optimal, but I don't know how much he can help in that regard. I monitor my data religiously, and my AHI is under 5, but my RDI isn't I have a fair number of RERAs most nights, and wouldn't mind bringing those down a bit.

Thanks!

Hi, many of us haven't seen doctors for OSA in years, possibly since diagnosis, partly because we track our own progress as you're apparently doing (if it ain't broke... ) and because we get so much help from this forum for just about anything that might come up related to sleep problems and therapy/Cpap/other answers. If you feel good on Cpap and your numbers are stable, what is there to bring to a specialist? Keep your GP up to date so there's a record for you, but otherwise?

I got a sleep doc because my PCP would not write a prescription for supples or another machine,
and I really wanted to change from cpap to apap.
I keep him because I like him and don't mind going in once a year.
This way I have a relationship in case things go south.

VictorC wrote: My question is how do I find a sleep specialist? Or do I even need to?
Thanks!

I was given a referral to a sleep doctor from my family doctor. The sleep doctor referred me to the sleep center for a test, and then the sleep doctor prescribed the machine and did a one-month follow up and another appointment for next year.

So you could ask your family doctor for a referral. Or you could check your insurance plan for sleep doctors in-network. Usually they're respiratory MDs - same folks who deal with narcolepsy, asthma, and pulmonary hypertension.