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Re: New to this

Posted by AmyM on September 28, 2001 at 09:41:26:

In Reply to: Re: New to this posted by gettingsomesleepinseattle on September 26, 2001 at 20:20:18:


I had Apria too for awhile. They can be tough. But just keep at them. They often say insurance won't cover it. Tell them to try anyway and you'll pay if it doesn't. Every time I've done that it's turned out that the insurance covers it. Ask for nasal pillows. You'll have to order the sleeve (to prevent rainout) yourself (cpapman.com sells one). What kind of cpap machine do you have?

The pressure setting does not reference how severe your apnea is. The figures you need are the apnea/hypopnea index (number of events per hour. You mentioned every two minutes which would be a score of 30, I believe that would be characterized as moderate by most sleep docs. The other score is how low your oxygen levels drop during events. That is usually a percentage from 100%. (Ex. mine dropped to 82%). When oxygen levels drop below 80% that is when there can be damage to your organs. All of this info is on your sleep study and you can ask for it from the sleep lab.

Good luck and keep hammering at Apria! (Isn't it outrageous that when they know insurance will only cover one or two masks, they won't start you out with the best ones?) However, my insurance did cover a second mask try.


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