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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    Checking in for the night!
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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    I'm on nights this week. 5pm-5am. Awesome.
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Annnnnd back to not sleeping..... I hate my brain some days..
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    Last-12-Exit said:

    I'm on nights this week. 5pm-5am. Awesome.

    I need like an 11pm-7am shift.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Last-12-Exit said:

    I'm on nights this week. 5pm-5am. Awesome.

    Does that mean you're sleeping right now?
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,662
    RKCNDY said:

    Woo hoo! 5 hours of sleep! My 'alarm' this morning was the sound of a cat barfing.

    Lol! Nothing wakes me up faster than that sound!
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,230
    Have anyone of you done a sleep study? (in home? or at a Sleep study center?)
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    cutz said:

    Have anyone of you done a sleep study? (in home? or at a Sleep study center?)

    Nope.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    ldent42 said:

    cutz said:

    Have anyone of you done a sleep study? (in home? or at a Sleep study center?)

    Nope.
    Nope...does insurance cover it?
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    My friend almost did it. It's not a simple thing. You have to have a regular doctor who you see regularly, after trying other crap like adjusting diet exercise environment and pharmaceuticals the doctor might recommend you for a sleep study. Then you have to have an appointment with the specialist & they send you home with some gadget you hook up to yourself to sleep with, then you have to go back and hand in the gadget, wait for "the results", get referred to the place where you sleep there with them watching you, and insurance doesn't cover the whole thing. I think he had to pay 20%, plus all those co pays for all those visits. And in the end it's just for them to confirm what you already figured. He got up to the "go sleep at this place" part when he gave up. After the take home gadget they're like "you have sleep apnea" he's like "yea... I know. Fix it!"

    I seriously doubt my insurance would cover any of this nonsense.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    ldent42 said:

    My friend almost did it. It's not a simple thing. You have to have a regular doctor who you see regularly, after trying other crap like adjusting diet exercise environment and pharmaceuticals the doctor might recommend you for a sleep study. Then you have to have an appointment with the specialist & they send you home with some gadget you hook up to yourself to sleep with, then you have to go back and hand in the gadget, wait for "the results", get referred to the place where you sleep there with them watching you, and insurance doesn't cover the whole thing. I think he had to pay 20%, plus all those co pays for all those visits. And in the end it's just for them to confirm what you already figured. He got up to the "go sleep at this place" part when he gave up. After the take home gadget they're like "you have sleep apnea" he's like "yea... I know. Fix it!"

    I seriously doubt my insurance would cover any of this nonsense.

    That's what I was thinking...I don't have 'insurance', I have that savings account the company puts money into (kinda like FSA, but they got rid of that and forced everybody to do the HSA). There are other things I need to use that money on.
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    I forgot to take my pills last night and didn't sleep worth a crap... Yet somehow I'm not falling asleep at my desk at work today...I don't know how that's possible...
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    The lack of sleep is catching up to me now...I feel like I could go home and sleep for a while...but I probably won't be allowed to...(re: daughter and hubby will probably wanna do something)...
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,230
    ldent42 said:

    My friend almost did it. It's not a simple thing. You have to have a regular doctor who you see regularly, after trying other crap like adjusting diet exercise environment and pharmaceuticals the doctor might recommend you for a sleep study. Then you have to have an appointment with the specialist & they send you home with some gadget you hook up to yourself to sleep with, then you have to go back and hand in the gadget, wait for "the results", get referred to the place where you sleep there with them watching you, and insurance doesn't cover the whole thing. I think he had to pay 20%, plus all those co pays for all those visits. And in the end it's just for them to confirm what you already figured. He got up to the "go sleep at this place" part when he gave up. After the take home gadget they're like "you have sleep apnea" he's like "yea... I know. Fix it!"

    I seriously doubt my insurance would cover any of this nonsense.

    My Insurance covered the in-home study. My Doctor told me that most Insurance will cover the in-home, but a lot won't cover if the Doctor wants you to go to the Sleep Study Center.

    Well, when i went and picked up this device, the person who gave it to me said that being at the Sleep Study Center is A LOT BETTER then the in-home one. Nothing i can do about it. I know when i didn't have insurance and my Doctor wanted me to go to the Sleep Study Center: it would've cost me $8000 !!!>Maybe that's why Insurance won't cover going to the Sleep Study Center? I told another Doctor what they wanted to charge me and he said: "That's a rip-off."

    Maybe you can ask your Doctor for the in-home study and MAYBE your insurance will cover it? I know it's not the best but it's better then nothing, i guess.

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,662
    cutz said:

    Have anyone of you done a sleep study? (in home? or at a Sleep study center?)

    Not yet, but soon enough I think I will be doing one at a sleep study Centre. I'll get back to you after. :)
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    I slept til about 5:30 this morning when I woke up with a raging headache and I refused to come take medicine because I didn't wanna go downstairs...how dumb is that? So for 3 more hours I tried to sleep, failing miserably and my head pounding....Ugh!
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    Would a sleep study actually serve a purpose for people with insomnia though?
    I feel like you'd just be laying there unable to sleep and feeling awkward.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,662
    ldent42 said:

    Would a sleep study actually serve a purpose for people with insomnia though?
    I feel like you'd just be laying there unable to sleep and feeling awkward.

    I doubt they'd be wasting their time with it if it serves no purpose.
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    I'm just wondering what they are able to determine.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,662
    ldent42 said:

    I'm just wondering what they are able to determine.

    Why you can't sleep, so that hopefully they can choose an appropriate course of action.
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