I've been on therapy for about 6 months and have lost ~16 pounds. Still have a long way to go. The two main reasons are more energy (been walking some) and it's easier to reliably eat breakfast (used to feel like such crap in the morning, that I always skipped breakfast). One big change is that I am...

Update:
I just got off the phone with them and they are dropping it to 10% co-pay, so I saved $1490.40 with a phone call. They didn't explain why it was billed the way it was or why they were changing it, but I was too grateful to ask.

I love insurance companies! Insurance companies rock!

an AHI that doesn't qualify (Some Insurance companies still use the old AHI>15 basis which rules out a lot of people) Thanks mattman, maybe that's what happened. Even with 2 Ambien in me, I didn't sleep enough during the sleep study for them to get data to make a diagnosis. I think I dozed a couple...

Yeah. I'll call them and argue. But I actually think I owe them the money. I was sort of surprised when they said it was covered originally. Mostly I just needed to vent last night. I have a bunch of anti-healthcare reform friends who are afraid of "giving the government too much power" or afraid of...

** vent-mode on ** Over six months after my polysomnograph, my insurance company finally decides I'm not fully covered and bills me for $1656. Bill arrived today and is due in 9 weekdays. It wouldn't irritate me so much, but they originally told me that it was covered, and since I hadn't been billed...

Age 41
4 & 3/8ths inches
2 & 3/4ths inches

Yeah. It's not worth arguing over. The insurance lobby has too much skin in the game. Any chance at meaningful health care reform is being quickly eroded.

Hmm, I read the July 19th version on the House's health reform bill. Sure, it was 1017 pages...but there's only 24 lines/page and not many words. And a lot of it is just definitions... I liked most of what I read. Of course, I didn't read anything about health police, death panels, euthanasia, healt...

Congrats! Looks good! I'm no doctor, but I'd watch the data for awhile...to see if I kept getting those little OA (obstructive apnea) spikes. And if I did, I'd try bumping my lower number up a bit to try to head them off. For instance, the little patterns I look at are the hypopneas and apneas at ab...

Am I the only one who likes it? Heck, if you were to get rid of the integrated pressure gauge (don't need), the patient access port (don't need), and move the incoming airflow to the top of the head with adequate CO2 venting (so I could sleep on my sides)....I'd give it a try. Heck, if it comes with...

>>>>It ticks me off when people trivialize obesity...it's a disease>>>>. I dont think its a disease, I thinks its a chosen behavior, and when illness hits because of the behavior, the logical thing for a sane person to do would be to change the behavior Obviously tens of millions of people in the w...

In my case, I don't think I had "normal depression" when my untreated OSA peaked. I think I had a "similar, but different" psychological malady. I was just too damned tired to cope. I was so physically, mentally, and emotionally fatigued that life just seemed like one, big arduous chore. I was almos...

Two popular models of recording pulse oximeters are the CMS-50E and the SPO-7500.

Yep, get an A-Flex machine and you can try both. C-Flex reduces the flow during exhale, to make the transition from inhale to exhale smoother. A-Flex does that too, but also tries to anticipate by reducing the flow a little at the end of your inhale. Some people feel like A-Flex causes them to "stac...

Bearded_One wrote:I believe that the morbidly obese people who 'cured' their OSA had OSA that was directly caused by their extreme weight, and that they represent a very small number of people with OSA.

Or possibly they had OHS (obesity hypoventilation syndrome) instead of OSA or in addition to their OSA.