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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on October 06, 2008, 02:33:22 pm ---IIRC, my wife stopped around 22 times an hour, with the longest being 1 minute or so. She was shocked that was considered not being apnea. She also goes to the bathroom several times a night. I figured it was because she was a woman.

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Did they say "no apnea" or "too low to qualify under your insurance?"

Big difference between the two.

shardian:
Their phrase was 'borderline apnea'. I too figured that meant 'you have apnea, but insurance won't pay for your machine unless you have it really, really bad.'

They never did put a machine on her during either test.

Loafmeister:

--- Quote from: shardian on October 06, 2008, 02:33:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on October 05, 2008, 11:23:19 am ---During my sleep study I averaged 32 times per hour that I'd stop breathing.  The shortest being 3 to 4 seconds and the longest being over 110 seconds!!  I finally went in to be tested when one night I woke up BLUE and having a REAL hard time breathing.  The doctor estimates I could have been not breathing for over 3 or 4 minutes in that case.  It scared the ---Cleveland steamer--- out of me. 

PRE-CPAP:  I'd have to get up and piss a MINIMUM of once per night,  averaged 2 times per night,  sometimes 3 times per night.  EVERY night.

POST-CPAP: The very first day I used the machine I slept through the entire night without getting up to piss once.  It's THAT much of a difference.


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IIRC, my wife stopped around 22 times an hour, with the longest being 1 minute or so. She was shocked that was considered not being apnea. She also goes to the bathroom several times a night. I figured it was because she was a woman.

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Dude, if you are recalling the numbers correctly, that is Sleep Apnea, there's no way stopping to breath for 1 minute is considered borderline. Either get her re-evaluated ELSEWHERE or there's a communication problem between you/wife and the doctors.  That's just ridiculous...

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on October 06, 2008, 02:55:36 pm ---Their phrase was 'borderline apnea'. I too figured that meant 'you have apnea, but insurance won't pay for your machine unless you have it really, really bad.'

They never did put a machine on her during either test.

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Depends on when she hit the threshhold.  A lot of people don't start showing signs of heavy apnea until several hours into the test, and by then, it is too late to get her on the machine that night.  What they would do usually if that is the case is keep recording and then make her come back for a second study and just start her off with CPAP.  That's what they did with me.  I wasn't too bad for the first 3 hours, then was really bad for the second three.

shardian:
She had sleep studies at 2 completely different sleep centers. At the second one, they did 'nap tests'. They would wake her up several times during the night, and then kept her into the afternoon the next day to take 2-3 hour long naps. I don't recall what those tests were for.

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