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palerider wrote:

ChicagoGranny wrote:

D.H. wrote:In reading through the posts, it appears that you're a pilot (though I didn't find an actual statement of that).

Duh.Huh.

The reason I do not want to take it because of what I want to do, become a pilot. Although you can still get a pilots lic with this condition it is much harder and you have to get all kinds of BS wavers.

dunderhead doesn't read, he's stated so in the past.

Malinalli73 wrote:The only way I can think of is doing an "at home" test. There's no way for them to tell if you were really asleep as long as you keep still most of the night....but then you'll probably fall asleep if you do keep still.

palerider wrote:

Malinalli73 wrote:The only way I can think of is doing an "at home" test. There's no way for them to tell if you were really asleep as long as you keep still most of the night....but then you'll probably fall asleep if you do keep still.

starting to think you don't know anything about anything you post. ever hear that asleep breathing and wake breathing look quite different on the flow trace?

Malinalli73 wrote:Two onths into using my machine and I'm already feeling some changes. Chronic pain condition is improving and I don't feel exhausted by noon, not sure if I owe it all to my little machine but that's my guess. I thought that is already an improvement in my quality of life but I'd like to know whay long term users have seen over the years.
Any other changes we could look forward?

Cereal Killer wrote:

palerider wrote:

Malinalli73 wrote:The only way I can think of is doing an "at home" test. There's no way for them to tell if you were really asleep as long as you keep still most of the night....but then you'll probably fall asleep if you do keep still.

starting to think you don't know anything about anything you post. ever hear that asleep breathing and wake breathing look quite different on the flow trace?

She's yet to figure out how her own "little machine" works, but she feels qualified to offer advice to others.

Guest wrote:Look up sleep apnea in AR 40-501. Those with sleep apnea can deploy as long as they have regular access to electricity for their CPAP machine. As a contractor you will likely fall into this category. I am a medical officer for the US Army and clear soldiers for deployment all the time.

thicke wrote:the definitive solution
only took 11 1/2 years for the OP to get it

Cereal Killer wrote:

palerider wrote:

Malinalli73 wrote:The only way I can think of is doing an "at home" test. There's no way for them to tell if you were really asleep as long as you keep still most of the night....but then you'll probably fall asleep if you do keep still.

starting to think you don't know anything about anything you post. ever hear that asleep breathing and wake breathing look quite different on the flow trace?

She's yet to figure out how her own "little machine" works, but she feels qualified to offer advice to others.

Malinalli73 wrote:Two onths into using my machine and I'm already feeling some changes. Chronic pain condition is improving and I don't feel exhausted by noon, not sure if I owe it all to my little machine but that's my guess. I thought that is already an improvement in my quality of life but I'd like to know whay long term users have seen over the years.
Any other changes we could look forward?

Sir NoddinOff wrote:My God, that's a weird picture in your signature line cereal killer.

Cereal Killer wrote:It's a GIF of a video I took of a friend sitting at my desk. (Everything on the desk is black, so it doesn't show up well.)
I needed an office in the city for a few hours each week. A friend offered me a small cubby in his basement. He didn't like the idea that I was sitting there in a dark basement, so he put in a Basement Window Periscope. He loves doing things like that.
The basement was unsuitable to host a client. But some of my customers heard about the periscope and were fascinated to visit. I have hosted a few, and they all love the periscope so much that don't even notice the dingy basement.

chunkyfrog wrote:Instead of an exterior door with a big window to the second story balcony,
hubby is considering a camera hooked via closed circuit
to a monitor mounted on the inside of the door. I like the idea. One way view.
Maybe on the door to the deck, too.

trodello1 wrote:All those stupid Three Stooges comments would be semi-amusing if I wasn't serious about this. (I thought this was a serious forum, anyway) T.....
....the US Army controls the deployments, and they have a policy that says Sleep Apnea is a non-deployable condition. But, if I get a letter signed by my doctor that says I can survive without a CPAP for six months, they'll let me go. The problem is that no doctor wants to stick out his/her neck like that. It seems my only chance is to take another sleep study and pass it. My most recent study (after my UPPP) gave me some fairly decent raddings, as far as I can tell, but I don't know how good is good! My Oxygen Saturation averaged 96.9%, with a low of 84% throughout the night. My RDI was 22.8% though, placing me just into the moderate range. I had 68 "events", 40 hypopnea's and 28 apnea's. I don't know if this all equates to me using a CPAP, but it seems so, because right after that study, they issued me a CPAP and told me to where it. (I was on active duty at the time) Can anyone tell if that equates to mandatory CPAP usage?
NOTE: I am not stupid. I know I should be using a CPAP, but I also know I will not keel over dead if I don't use it for six months. And it doesn't mean I wouldn't be able to use it either. They just want me to be prepared not to use it, just in case I am in a place where there is an unreliable power source. I just want to pass this test so I can continue to do my job.
P.S. What would Ambien do for me.