RE: Sleep Apnea Survey!
Apropos,
Those sleep surveys everyone takes at their sleep doctor? They are used to weed out 'trouble' people. In case you have low AHI and good O2% sat. and you fill in you have terrible sleep, then you are then placed on the 'psychosomatic' list and then you end up either at a psychiatrist with pills or the lucky ones end up on this board.
RE: Sleep Apnea Survey!
This is different than that.
This is a survey of many people, and the data will be presented to the FDA to discuss sleep apnea and patients' experiences.
The survey we fill out for the sleep doctor is just exactly what you said. And yeah, I was a lucky one who 1) ended up here, and 2) insisted to my sleep "doctor" that I needed to at least TRY a titrated sleep study because doing nothing wasn't working for me.
RE: Sleep Apnea Survey!
It is a confusing survey. There's few places where they ask "this is about your UNtreated sleep apnea" or "this is from BEFORE you began treatment."
I couldn't figure out how to answer.
PaulaO2
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RE: Sleep Apnea Survey!
Agree that the survey is confusing.
I also noted that two of the sponsors are Fisher & Paykel and Resmed. I'm not sure that they are champions of patient empowerment!
DeepBreathing
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RE: Sleep Apnea Survey!
I did it as well, and was also confused on a few of them
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RE: Sleep Apnea Survey!
I'll try it again and answer everything as if without machine.
PaulaO2
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Breathe deeply and count to zen.
INFORMATION ON APNEA BOARD FORUMS OR ON APNEABOARD.COM SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED AS MEDICAL ADVICE. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF A PHYSICIAN BEFORE SEEKING TREATMENT FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING SLEEP APNEA. INFORMATION POSTED ON THE APNEA BOARD WEB SITE AND FORUMS ARE PERSONAL OPINION ONLY AND NOT NECESSARILY A STATEMENT OF FACT.