I just got approved for Gastric Sleeve (YAY!) While waiting for scheduling and all that fun stuff I had my CPAP memory card tested and found out I'm still having apneas! I'm very worried about this for many reasons one being is this going to affect when I can have my surgery? I'm hoping to have it the beginning of August, I'm obviously going to talk to my doctor about this but I'm just curious if anyone has had this problem before and what happened?? Also I'm waiting on my family doctor to send the request to up my pressure it just seems like it takes forever!

Changing settings on your cpap machine is just like going to a pharmacy and grabbing a higher dose med on your own. These machines do effect your respiratory system. I have worked in sleep health for years. It is highly recommended that you allow your dr to prescribe necessary changes, not just adjust it on your own.

To say that it is like grabbing a higher prescription is disingenuous to my entire argument and I respectfully disagree. Best - Shellie

Ask your sleep dr what they think of you modifying your own settings. It isn't difficult to allow your dr to read your card and make the changes on their own. Just like when you need a rx change you don't do it on your own. You see the dr. If there wast a reason to have clinical menus and keep people from adjusting their machines, they wouldn't set them up that way to begin with. To each their own. Do as you wish. Sounds like the real problem is your sleep health practice doesn't do enough follow up with their patients.