Buying a CPAP before getting a sleep study?

Hello,

Just started my journey getting diagnosed, problem is I'll have to wait 6 months for a sleep study. My snoring made my friends think a bear visited our campsite, I wake up multiple times throughout the night, sometimes in a comfy pool of me own sweat.

Bought a somewhat expensive pulse oximeter and downloaded a sleep recording app, found out my heart beat looks like a Skrillex song. Although oxygen levels are stable, heart beat is constantly jumping through the night, it also doesn't match the intensity of snoring.

Honestly I could barely function these past 6 years, fatigue killed my goals and aspirations in life. Would it be unwise to buy a CPAP machine ( used preferably) and self-titrate with OSCAR before getting an actual sleep study?

I apologize for any mistakes in advance, English isn't my native language.

Based on that one hour snippet, you don't have sleep apnea.

That said,

damndenis wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:25 am

Would it be unwise to buy a CPAP machine ( used preferably) and self-titrate with OSCAR before getting an actual sleep study?

TTBOMK nobody's gonna stop you.

Rubicon wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:11 am

Based on that one hour snippet, you don't have sleep apnea.

How so? Aren't oxygen levels and pulse not enough to neither deny nor confirm sleep apnea?

The app only allows viewing for 1 hour at a time, so that sucks. But in 4 days the lowest my oxygen has been was at 88% ( for about 2 minutes).

Get a home sleep test. Save time and money:

https://www.cpap.com/home-sleep-apnea-test