For what it is worth, which is probably not much, I don’t know that I actually believe she has sleep apnea at all. She does not snore, nor wake, nor generally have any trouble sleeping beyond initially getting to sleep - for which she is already on medication.
The only reason she even got checked in the first place was she paralyzed one of her diaphragms after a very bad bout of pneumonia, and her pulmonologist made a suggestion based on nothing other than an abundance of caution that we might want to make an appointment to see.
I remain largely unconvinced of the methodology by which she was diagnosed. It was an at-home single-night sleep study. She had to strap a box to her chest, place a handful of electrodes around and wear a breathing monitor. She only managed around three hours of sleep, largely because she could not sleep in her preferred position (stomach) and found the hoses in her nose anxiety inducing. It was, in my unprofessional opinion, completely unrepresentative of a normal restful night of sleep, and thus largely irrelevant data.
On top of that, the day we returned the device the doctor opened the appointment by checking what CPAP machines our insurance would cover - BEFORE the results came back from the lab.
I think you are the best person to judge your parnter's sleep health.
CPAP has been a gamechanger for me, and my partner. It took two years to get it through the health system, (having a box duct-taped to me at the hospital for home sleep analysis was completly useless), duriing which time I developed some chronic health issues. I was so grateful to to finally recieve my machine (the Nose Hose we call it) that the aquwardness and sillyness issues were tiny in comparison to the benifit of getting a good night's sleep.
The only reason she even got checked in the first place was she paralyzed one of her diaphragms after a very bad bout of pneumonia, and her pulmonologist made a suggestion based on nothing other than an abundance of caution that we might want to make an appointment to see.
I remain largely unconvinced of the methodology by which she was diagnosed. It was an at-home single-night sleep study. She had to strap a box to her chest, place a handful of electrodes around and wear a breathing monitor. She only managed around three hours of sleep, largely because she could not sleep in her preferred position (stomach) and found the hoses in her nose anxiety inducing. It was, in my unprofessional opinion, completely unrepresentative of a normal restful night of sleep, and thus largely irrelevant data.
On top of that, the day we returned the device the doctor opened the appointment by checking what CPAP machines our insurance would cover - BEFORE the results came back from the lab.
It felt very … salesperson-y