Re: cpap machine _ Help, please!

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Thanks Timmy, sounds like good advice but I think I should wait for

the new sleep study after my surgery....3 weeks from today.

Maggie

In gastric-bypass-support-kaiser-patients , " Uncle

Timmy " wrote:

> Call your PCP and request a new sleep study. They're done through

the

> pulmonery therapy dept at Kaiser. They give you a take-home gismo

> that you strap on and plug into a hand-held computer. The next

> morning, you turn it in, they download the data, and they can tell

> what pressure your CPAP (or BPAP) should be set at. My last sleep

> study showed apnia only when I slept on my back, and the pressure

was

> taken down to " 5. " The next step will be getting rid of it all

> together!

>

> UNcle Timmy -236

>

>

> > Hi all,

> > It seems I read about someone getting their cpap machine

adjusted...

> > I think mine needs one. I got it while I was covered by Blue

> Cross/Blue

> > Shield so I have no idea who to contact in Kaiser...I also need a

> new

> > mask, and I think someone posted a link.

> > Thanks,

> > Maggie