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Julie wrote:It won't help your OSA at all... only the doctor's report to the insurance co... as you already guessed. Any chance of getting another doctor, one with a few brain cells to rub together?

did you consider the possibility that the doctor might actually want to look at the data, and the term 'compliance chip' just got used somehow?

All I can do is go by what's said... but anything's possible of course.

Yeah he just said to bring in the little square chip thingee. I was just inquiring here what this can SHOW that my machine screen does not. And how is it helpful. If it can't give any additional info that would help (as you said) I'm not gonna bother.

Don't know what he means by "it would be more revealing"

tommie1 wrote:Yeah he just said to bring in the little square chip thingee. I was just inquiring here what this can SHOW that my machine screen does not. And how is it helpful. If it can't give any additional info that would help (as you said) I'm not gonna bother.

Don't know what he means by "it would be more revealing"

depending on what kind of machine you have, it can show tons more info than the machine screen can.

I hate it when somebody wants information, but will tell us NOTHING.
This is not the Psychic Apnea Forum.

can't even be bothered to register.

OP, go read the first post in the announcements section.

Yo, Chunkyfrog, I dont know why you say I don't tell you anything. In a previous post I put my machine name, my mask, pressure, ramp time and everything else.

Palerider, unfortunately this very old, kind of computer illiterate novice doesn't know what you mean by "he doesn't even bother to register". I thought I did when I chose a username, password, etc. Very sorry.

Maybe I'd better not write here anymore. I'm not good at this. Sorry again.

and embarrased.

Look to the left of your post where your tommie1 user id is.
Now look at the same place to the left of my post here.
See how yours is different? You may have a user ID and a password but you aren't logged in because if did your user id would look like mine looks.

Upper right corner of the forum page see where it says "Log In" you have to click on that and then use your user ID and password to get logged in.
Once you get logged in then you can fix up your equipment profile so that we can easily see what you are using and we don't have to keep asking or going back and reading stuff all over again.
wiki/index.php/Registering_Equipment_in_User_Profile

Don't go away though. Lots of folks don't understand how forums work if they don't have much experience using a forum.

If you can afford to, find a cheap or used oximeter either with low SAT alarm or trending(reading your levels through the night). You oxygen levels may be dropping still even though you're on you CPAP machine.

Sometimes our computer/system will kick us out. Frustrating.
My iPad would log me out every freaking 10 minutes. After 2 years of cursing,
I have retired the damn thing. My Samsung keeps me logged in, per the box I check on login.
Apple sucks!

D.H. wrote:Since your AHI is good, I assume that the treatment is delivering what it is supposed to deliver. Hang in there for a while longer, make sure your AHI remains good, and hopefully you'll start feeling better. Sometimes, the first thing you'll notice is that you're not nodding off as much, even if you don't think you feel better.

Also, consider that you might be tired for reasons other than Sleep Apnea (but don't discontinue CPAP). Other reasons for feeling tired include (but are not limited to) diabetes, fibromyalgia, and narcolepsy.


Note that narcolepsy doesn't necessarily meaning falling asleep standing up or in the middle of a sentence. That is the extreme case of narcolepsy.

Question:

D.H., what other illnesses are there that could make you feel sleepy and not functional during the A.M. time of the days even if your CPAP treatments are fully optimized, and assuming that you sleep more than 5 hours?

Why are you asking DH? Has he been hiding a medical degree somewhere?

Try Google - there are thousands of answers you can look at and juggle to fit whatever theory of the day you choose!

In fact why not invite DH to join you? Together you could qualify for quacks of the year!

avi123 wrote:D.H., what other illnesses are there that could make you feel sleepy and not functional during the A.M. time of the days even if your CPAP treatments are fully optimized, and assuming that you sleep more than 5 hours?

avi doesn't even take his own advice.

avi123 wrote: I would not follow advice from posters on this website.

further signs of his sad decline.

D.H. wrote:Since your AHI is good, I assume that the treatment is delivering what it is supposed to deliver. Hang in there for a while longer, make sure your AHI remains good, and hopefully you'll start feeling better. Sometimes, the first thing you'll notice is that you're not nodding off as much, even if you don't think you feel better.
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AHI isn't everything. It counts the number of events. It doesn't take into account how long the events are and if they are in clusters.