Sleep Apnea--comments?

[learnteach]

Sleep apnea--last night, the third person in recent times asked me if I had gone and checked for sleep apnea.  Sigh.  Time to stop being a martyr and go fight the system to see a doctor.  Of course, the fact that I'm waking up several times a night to urinate (when I don't need to urinate as much during the day), the spells of sleepyness and irritability (which I attribute to school based depression) and the excess weight I have and lack of exercise, combined with the fact that one of my brothers has a CPAP for his apnea...hmm.

Any help/notes any of my friends can give me?

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[trinsf.livejournal.com]

Okay, so, it's not always weight, I can tell you this because ewhac is pretty much an otter, not a bear, and he was diagnosed and prescribed a CPAP earlier this year. *He* think it doesn't make a big difference, but I know it has positively impacted our household, largely because now *I* sleep better. He was also a martyr, by the way, and fought the system for a year, and then drug his feet every step of the way, so that from first appointment to bringing home the CPAP took over 6 months.

We recommend "Bay Sleep Clinic", which isn't as well known as other ones, I'm told, but is much more financially friendly, I thought. Big M covered much of it, though they didn't get a preauth for the sleep study, so they didn't cover that.

As the bedmate, I was *really* afraid that the CPAP would be loud and keep me up, but the opposite is true -- it's much quieter than the snoring. I pretty much can't hear it at all.