03-12-2025, 01:39 PM
More sleep clinic silliness
I have a neighbor that went in for a sleep study. She knows I suffer from apnea. So she and her hubby asked me to look at her study results. She is very fit, 56 and is a runner.
She has an AHI-18.4 So moderate. And saturation never went below 92%
But where the silliness starts is that her study was hard to decipher. They never said a thing to her about her AHI nor any of her results as they showed her the door. I never could figure out if she had any centrals as it was not even closely translated enough for a lay person. So she is calling them to ask.
They suggested that she have a dental appliance made ($5k and not covered) She told them she has TMJ. They still said go dental. Never even mentioned the option of xpap.
So after our talk about the options. She is going to go with the appropriate xpap once she finds out about her centrals. She said as a former nurse, she could see it was obvious that the sleep clinic was just collecting fees for the labs and the patient was secondary or worse.
She has an AHI-18.4 So moderate. And saturation never went below 92%
But where the silliness starts is that her study was hard to decipher. They never said a thing to her about her AHI nor any of her results as they showed her the door. I never could figure out if she had any centrals as it was not even closely translated enough for a lay person. So she is calling them to ask.
They suggested that she have a dental appliance made ($5k and not covered) She told them she has TMJ. They still said go dental. Never even mentioned the option of xpap.
So after our talk about the options. She is going to go with the appropriate xpap once she finds out about her centrals. She said as a former nurse, she could see it was obvious that the sleep clinic was just collecting fees for the labs and the patient was secondary or worse.
