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| - I highly recommend finding a different sleep center and a different sleep Dr (we saw Dr Gill), as both did a very poor job making my health much worse than it was before I saw them.
I already had a sleep study and cpap but I moved to this area and the DME wanted an updated prescription before they gave me a new mask, so I went to desert pulmonary and saw Dr Gill. Though the cpap I had was treating my sleep apnea very well, Dr Gill said I had to have a new sleep study.
The sleep study was poorly done. First, they used equipment I could not buy - sleep studies are done on cpaps you can buy because that way they know it will work for you at home with the settings they give you. I did get a copy of the sleep study by having my Dr request a copy, as Dr Gill didn't offer to give me a copy or respond to my request for one. They started out at a very low setting and raised it once every few hours and then wrote a prescription for the level I was at when the sleep study ended. This was way below what was optimal for me (and below what my previous sleep study showed I needed).
The prescription was written for the most cheap cpap type, with no humidifier, no software, no autoflexing (as we change sleep positions, change our sleep patterns because we are more tired or had a drink or two, change altitudes on a vacation, etc., our air pressure level needs changes and a cpap without autoflexing can't adjust to any of this). My first Dr understood this and gave me a good cpap with the humidifier and autoflexing. To not have a humidifier in dry AZ is just asking for sinus troubles and nose bleeds. But Dr Gill prescribed the cheap cpap with no humidifier or autoflex.
My cpap immediately showed that my sleep apneas had increased by 10 fold (the times I stopped breathing). I brought this up at my one month followup Dr Gill's answer is my equipment is correct, cpaps are not designed to measure sleep apneas.
My sleep apnea symptoms were returning and I was showing the symptoms of untreated sleep apnea - falling asleep unintentionally, snoring loudly, being very groggy after 8 hours of sleeping, etc.
I reset my cpap to my old prescription (I found how to do this via an internet search). Immediately my sleep apnea events reduced back to a healthy level and my symptoms went away. The software showed I needed a much higher prescription that what Dr Gill suggested.
If you never had a cpap that was properly prescribed before you might not know it when Desert Pulmonary does a bad sleep study and you only get your sleep apnea partially treated, you might even think it was better than when you were untreated so think they did a good job. But you will not know they are doing a poor job that will result in a shortened life for you (with your sleep apnea not properly treated).
No matter where you go, Insist on prescription for a cpap with autoflex and a humidifier and the fancy software and rely on what tells you more than any Dr or sleep center. The good Drs will pay attention to what your cpap tells you, the bad ones are shortening your life.
A good internet site for more info (patients helping patients) is cpaptalk dot com.
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