Aetna has not approved for me to get a sleep study. I hope that doesn't affect my surgery. Has anyone had this happen?

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6 minutes ago, Ellens531 said:

Aetna has not approved for me to get a sleep study. I hope that doesn't affect my surgery. Has anyone had this happen?

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Might depend on your BMI. If you are have a lower BMI and no co-morbidities... then the lack of a sleep study might effect it. If you are over the "line in the sand" BMI where you don't need a co-morbidity, then you could be ok. All really comes down to if your AETNA plan requires it or not, you can give a call to AETNA and ask them.

Because I snored, my surgeon recommended that I meet with a pulmonologist. I did this and and after examining me, the doctor indicated that I most likely had sleep apnea. He recommended that I have a sleep study performed. I declined. My reasoning was that since most individuals resolve this problem after surgery, that I didn't see the need to go this route because I was going for the surgery. Anyways my pulmonologist coundn't find a defect in my logic and approved me to go ahead.

For several years prior to surgery, my snoring kept my wife awake all night long depriving her of her well deserved sleep. She was a light sleeper. Anyways a few months after surgery, sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night and find my wife hovering over me. I asked her what she was doing. She said I was sleeping so silently, she though I had passed away in the night and she was looking for signs of life. So one of the effects of surgery in my case was to vanquish my sleep apnea.