Re: Getting official medical help with osa and sp02 levels?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:58 pm
Actually, my sleep doctor was very impressed when I showed up for my followup with data printouts and a printout from the main page of cpaptalk.com. He asked if he could have it so that he could recommend it to others.ravenous28 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:58 pm
Of course I don’t believe that. I’m just telling you what the attitude is in the medical field. No one out there in the medical field who is in the sleep business is going advocate anyone using sleepyhead. Why would they when they want you to keep paying for follow up appointments.
A few weeks later, I started helping my mother. She had an older machine (without data), and she had never had the great results that I did. After I finished my followup, I let my mom use my machine at her prescribed setting of 10 for half a night. Her ahi looked okay for doctors, but not great. 3.4 But what really caught my eye was the cluster of long events. 8 events over 30 seconds each (one over a m minute) in about 15 minutes time. I printed the report. A few nights later, she used my machine again for half a night with the machine set for 10-13 to see what it wanted to do. i printed that report too. I went with my mom to my sleep doctor. He reviewed her old sleep study (several years old) and the two reports I had printed from MY machine. He prescribed a new machine, set for 10-15. And he shook my hand.
So, yes, some doctors do approve of us using our software. He was not bothered at all that I let somebody else use my machine. And he wrote a prescription for a new machine based on an OLD sleep study and two printed reports from MY machine.
And, as I mentioned before, I asked my new PCP for a prescription for cpap supplies and got it with no problem. She did not have ANY of my sleep study info. Just my word that I use cpap, and I would like to buy supplies with insurance.
If your statements here are correct, you have a doctor who probably profits from a sleep study, so he insists you need one. Just go to a different doctor. Tell them you would like a written prescription for a cpap machine and supplies. Every cpap user should be able to get supplies any time they need. They should be able to buy a backup machine if they want to. And if they travel, it is a good idea to have a copy in case something breaks. It is a legitimate request.
