Wife and I both are in mid 30, slightly overweight, and I'm hypertensive. We both had been having trouble sleeping and exhibiting the symptoms of Sleep Apnea for some time. My wife finally go fed up with being tired all the time and ended up with a home sleep study followed up by a titration. Now she is sleeping great with a Dreamstation. Myself, well last Sunday I was on about a 2 week bender of horrible interrupted sleep, and insomnia so she convinced me to let her hook her machine up to me and take a nap. After a few minutes of adjusting to it I dozed off and slept great for the first time in weeks, if only for a few hours. I have attached the graph from Sleepyhead below. Fast forward to Monday, I was talking with my parents about it and dad mentioned he had an old RemStar Auto machine i could have if i wanted. So I got it, went and bought a mask and needed accessories and set it up like my wifes RX on her machine. The last couple nights I have slept great and feel like a new person. It is honestly a night and day difference.
Now to my dilemma. I fast tracked a referral to a local sleep clinic and have an appt for a split study on 3/19. Is using my "bootleg" setup going to have any detrimental effect on the official test? Should I stop using the machine until after the test or continue using it. I don't really want to do anything that will negatively effect the official test for obvious cost reasons. I did not mention to the sleep doc about my health hacking and I figured he would not appreciate it and I'd get a lecture about it. Any insight would be great!