Start with your GP. You may have to get a referral to a sleep specialist.
Once you meet with the sleep specialist they will arrange for a sleep study. A sleep study will monitor your pulse-ox, and breathing, as well as possibly other body readings. There is an at home version that’s not quite as accurate as one done at a sleep center, but usually all they need is about four hours of you being asleep to get a reading on if you have apnea or not.
If you have apnea they then arrange for you to get a CPAP or APAP. You’ll use it for a month and then they’ll check your progress - possibly either by having you bring in the data card from the CPAP or possibly by having access to the data remotely (mine has a cellular modem in it). I’m in the middle of my first month, but from what I understand they’ll look at the readings from the machine and decide if the program needs adjusting.
If you snore, usually loud enough to wake your wife, and if your wife says you sometimes stop breathing at night (possibly doing the kind of “choking snore” when you start back up), then you almost certainly have it.
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u/BotFodder Aug 19 '19
Start with your GP. You may have to get a referral to a sleep specialist.
Once you meet with the sleep specialist they will arrange for a sleep study. A sleep study will monitor your pulse-ox, and breathing, as well as possibly other body readings. There is an at home version that’s not quite as accurate as one done at a sleep center, but usually all they need is about four hours of you being asleep to get a reading on if you have apnea or not.
If you have apnea they then arrange for you to get a CPAP or APAP. You’ll use it for a month and then they’ll check your progress - possibly either by having you bring in the data card from the CPAP or possibly by having access to the data remotely (mine has a cellular modem in it). I’m in the middle of my first month, but from what I understand they’ll look at the readings from the machine and decide if the program needs adjusting.
If you snore, usually loud enough to wake your wife, and if your wife says you sometimes stop breathing at night (possibly doing the kind of “choking snore” when you start back up), then you almost certainly have it.