Not so. I had three that insisted I had insufficient apnea to be bothered to treat. And the 4th barely put me into the “needs treatment” range.
I’m slightly curious about this… the cost of my sleep study, which was covered by insurance, was over $2,000. Your insurance company didn’t have a problem covering multiple studies that repeatedly showed you didn’t need treatment?
These were over a number of years (well, the first 3 were within 18 months of each other). I was surprised that they didn’t quibble, especially about #2 - but the doctor ordered it and so they were fine with it.
Of course, this was in 2000 or so when they weren’t QUITE so snippy about such things, I guess (hell, I phoned 'em once about a fraudulent hospital charge - billed for an extra day’s stay - and they said “the hospital billed us so we had to pay”, and I had to fight the HOSPITAL to get them to un-bill it).
In my case:
- Horrible data, I left at 3 AM. That was the one where I threatened to wet the bed (see my linked post).
- Marginally better data, very mild apnea spotted, as well as a diagnosis of something I quite literally could NOT have had (“hypnotic dependent syndrome”… which sorta requires you to have used sleeping pills on a regular basis… as my one experience of them was a SINGLE DOSE, more than 3 years before, this seemed improbable).
- A year or so later, visit to a specialist for a different sleep disorder, they insisted I get retested with better apnea-detection equipment.
- 9 years later. Finally found enough apnea to try CPAP
- CPAP titration study a month or so after 4.
- 24-hour study a few months after that when I still felt like hell.
#2 was the one I’d have expected quibblling about. #3 was to confirm / rule out a different diagnosis.
This. At the time of my sleep study, I was traveling a stupid amount per month. Another night in a strange bed in a room that looks EXACTLY like every Holiday Inn Express / Days Inn / Etc medium range hotel? No problemo. Yeah the glue used on the scalp leads was a pain, but my harness also was joined in at a single huge Molex connector. I could get up to pee after calling my Tech to disconnect me. No real sweat- the rest room was within my room, just like a hotel room.
The leads did not keep me awake at all. I slept until they awakened me. I roughly slept from 10:30- 5:00 am with one or two pee breaks. Of course, the first time I slept atrociously as always. The second time, with the CPAP on for the first time, was a godsend.