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Re: Being Diagnosed while Sick

Posted by whatsanenigma on April 16, 2007 at 19:17:32:

In Reply to: Re: Being Diagnosed while Sick posted by Bird Watcher on April 16, 2007 at 18:06:33:

Oh, I don't think anybody here can know which I have. What I am interested in is how the diagnosis was made.

This is what happened to me. My doctor scheduled me for a sleep study and a multiple sleep latency test. During the nightly sleep, the technicians decided I was showing signs of apnea, but didn't bring in the mask, because they said my sinuses were so clogged that it would have made it even harder for me to breathe. ("Blow out my sinuses" was the exact phrasing, I think.) They did not want to follow up the next day with the rest of the test. Apparently the procedure is to just stop as soon as "apnea" is seen and insist that that be treated with CPAP for a while before running a sleep latency test for narcolepsy. I insisted that they go through with the multiple sleep latency test, because I had taken a great amount of trouble to get the day off work and quite frankly, I am tired of playing games with this.
They performed the test but they were NOT happy.

This whole situation seems very fishy to me. Is this the standard diagnostic procedure for apnea? I had a sleep study done about five years ago, and when I mentioned that to the technicians, they said that apnea symptoms do not necessarily show up every single night. So, if my symptoms were apnea-like, why did the previous doctors not say I should come in again to see if proof of apnea showed up on a second try? Why did they just drop it?

This has been a very stressful 10 years. I just want to find out what the heck is wrong and give it the right treatment. No more games. If this is a standard practice, maybe I will cut the doctors some more slack. But there still will not be any games. I've lost too much of my life as it is.

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