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Hugewreck wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 5:22 am

This son's mouth is fantastic - perfectly spaced teeth, no crowding, no gum issues, all coming in straight and never a cavity. Son2 has too many teeth in a tiny mouth, total mess. lol At 8.5 yo he had to have pallet expanders top and bottom for almost 1.5 years, then crazy looking braces for a year. Took about 1.5 years off of no braces per orthdontist, doc wanted to see how the jaw line was going in puberty. Currently he is wearing Invisalign and totally happy with his mouth. He's my perfect sleeper, i finally got some sleep when he came along. No issues with him, i've watched and listened.

That sounds exactly reversed. What did the ENT say about the condition of son one's airway?

palerider wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 10, 2019 6:58 pm

Says someone who has no concept of private insurance in the US in the last decade.

Bad assumption. Gramps and I both have had only private insurance for the last six years.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 7:24 am

That sounds exactly reversed. What did the ENT say about the condition of son one's airway?

Son1 has no airway constrictions, asthma nor severe allergies. His tonsils are fine too. Crazy you'd think son2 would be having issues too but no. He could have issues later in life. My new ENT is connecting the dots with my issues, he thinks its UARS. Taken years to get anywhere on my breathing/swallowing issues. Docs said its asthma, congestion, tonsil issues, adenoids and on and on. I just want to breathe without struggling.

Hugewreck wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 10:01 am

Son1 has no airway constrictions, asthma nor severe allergies. His tonsils are fine too.

I hope you'll update this thread when the results of his sleep study are known.

Sincere prayers for the three of you who are afflicted. May you all find relief soon.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 8:07 am

palerider wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 10, 2019 6:58 pm

Says someone who has no concept of private insurance in the US in the last decade.

Bad assumption. Gramps and I both have had only private insurance for the last six years.

So, you think :

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:40 am

And, US customers want the best treatment with the latest technology with stingy premium payments.

Meaning *hundreds of dollars* a month in premiums for insurance that pays NOTHING till you've already payed thousands in deductibles is 'stingy' premium payments?

It's quite easy to pay 12grand for insurance and medical expenses, combined in a year, and get *zero* dollars 'benefit'.

palerider wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:54 am

It's quite easy to pay 12grand for insurance and medical expenses, combined in a year, and get *zero* dollars 'benefit'.

That's what insurance is. If everyone got out of it every year what they paid in, it wouldn't work. But, you know that.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:36 pm

palerider wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:54 am

It's quite easy to pay 12grand for insurance and medical expenses, combined in a year, and get *zero* dollars 'benefit'.

That's what insurance is. If everyone got out of it every year what they paid in, it wouldn't work. But, you know that.

It's amazing, the things you've convinced yourself are "just fine" these days.

You're right, if all the users broke even, there wouldn't be money to buy yachts for the insurance company executives... And then where would we be?

I skipped the insurance yachts fund for 40 years.
I I had to do it again I would do the same.
I was reasonably healthy during most of those years as was my family. Assuming a $1,000 deductible, we would only have benefited twice in those 40 years except we chose treatment in Rosarito Mexico, so the insurance probably would have refused payment even then.

Sleep study was Thursday night, he loved all the attention the techs were giving him and had 8 millions questions about the wires and information feedback.

We have the followup appointment next tuesday. Hopefully we will find out a solution to his horrible sleeping not sleeping issues.

Hugewreck wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 25, 2019 10:36 am

Sleep study was Thursday night, he loved all the attention the techs were giving him and had 8 millions questions about the wires and information feedback.

We have the followup appointment next tuesday. Hopefully we will find out a solution to his horrible sleeping not sleeping issues.

Best wishes for a solution.
JPB

Hugewreck wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 25, 2019 10:36 am

Sleep study was Thursday night, he loved all the attention the techs were giving him and had 8 millions questions about the wires and information feedback.

We have the followup appointment next tuesday. Hopefully we will find out a solution to his horrible sleeping not sleeping issues.

Sounds like he would really enjoy monitoring his therapy with Oscar / sleepyhead.

If he ends up with an X-Pap ... be SURE he gets one with an SD card. (Like an AUTOSET / resmed.)

He can post his results and interpretations here and pretty much go as far intellectually as he is able to go. There are some serious experts here. (Though they have to talk down a bit to get to my level of comprehension.)

Good Luck.

Hopefully he'll be sleeping peacefully very soon.

~~~grace

Sorry for taking so long to get back with the sleep study, i started a new job and it took a few weeks for me to get over being exhausted after work.

What i recall from the paperwork that is at home....
sleep apnea score was 1.8 -
Snoring... was low (don't recall the number)

what really affected his sleep was the Restlessness, he was awake 23 mins of 312 mins of sleep recorded and had a RERA score of 6.7.

The doctor said the restlessness needs to be address, stated a heavy blanket would probably help and have him eat a snack (cottage cheese, small pb sandwich) before he goes to bed.

We bought him a new heavy bed blanket (off of amazon, still not cheap but worth it) and wow he has stayed in bed and sleeping longer! He is actually waking up with an alarm and staying awake until bedtime at 9:30pm. There is more to share but i have students making a mess with acrylic paints - stop painting the easel and paint the canvas!