::Leader Board:: Ahnko Honu Takes The Lead Chapter 23!

Glad to be back here (on the thread), but NY? Not so much. I'm already looking forward to going back to Florida. Hopefully, we'll make the move permanent before too long....
 
Funny. I cancelled that first reply, as the forum was calling it a duplicate, and wouldn't post it. I re-write the reply, only to find the forum them posted them both....
 
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I appreciate it. Turns out I have severe sleep apnea. I stopped breathing 34 times in a hour. I still want to see a sleep specialist. This doctor made a bunch of excuses about not giving me the results before the referral. I am going to drop him like a stone.
 
I need advice. I am very pissed off. I have been sleeping poorly for about the last year. Told the doctor. He set me up with an at-home sleep study. Have been waiting for a couple of weeks to get results. Instead of getting results, I get a all from the doctor scheduling a fitting for a CPAP. No results. No discussion. Do I have the right to be pissed off? I feel like I have been referred to a cancer doctor before I have been told that I have cancer. Is this the way a doctor tells you that you have a problem? I need some recommendations on CPAP in case I decide to get one.

Love mine. Feel much more rested. Way more alert. And much more energy. It wasn’t immediate for me like others have reported, it took a couple of weeks for me to realize the difference.
 
Yeah - that's really poor. As for CPAP recommendations? If possible get APAP, not CPAP. APAP adjusts the amount of pressure depending on whether you're breathing in or out (so the pressure reduces to make it easier to breathe out). It will also ramp up the pressure if it senses you're closing in on an apnea or hypopnea event (up to a preset level). CPAP just delivers a single pressure. You learn to breathe out against it, but the APAP is MUCH nicer. My APAP is my friend. I sleep VERY well with it.

WHAT jon said.

My machine is an apap too. When I had my heart procedure the hospital hooked me up to a cpap because I left my machine at home. I took it off because I couldn’t sleep with the way it works with only one pressure.
 
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I appreciate it. Turns out I have severe sleep apnea. I stopped breathing 34 times in a hour. I still want to see a sleep specialist. This doctor made a bunch of excuses about not giving me the results before the referral. I am going to drop him like a stone.

I went from 48 (which I still think is improbable), to .5 or less
 
Shane, Rafe, and now Don is back?

Happy reunion day KIDS!

REMINDER: Sunday is the 10th anniversary of the thread. 10 years! As a pessimist, and with the way things have slowed down here, this may be the last anniversary...but be sure to drop in on Sunday (yes, Easter!) and say Hi!
 
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I appreciate it. Turns out I have severe sleep apnea. I stopped breathing 34 times in a hour. I still want to see a sleep specialist. This doctor made a bunch of excuses about not giving me the results before the referral. I am going to drop him like a stone.

Good. Gone are the days that the doctor sits on his throne like a god and waits for staff and patients to bow down to him (yes, intentional use of masculine-centric language). Doctors are here to serve their patients; if they can't do that properly, they deserve to have their patients (customers) go elsewhere.

For some reason at Kaiser I still talk to people who are under the impression they can't change their doctor. Fugeddaboudit! You don't like the doctor? Get out and find a new one! We have tons of them. And don't overlook the allied health providers - PAs and NPs. I find them to be excellent and much more in tune with their patients. My own primary care provider is a Physician Assistant and I trust her absolutely - partly because I know she doesn't have some kind of arrogance to think she knows everything and will consult with a proper specialist if anything comes up.
 
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