Sleep Apnea Test - It May Feel Invasive But It Is Important

If you snore while asleep - like millions of other Americans, you may need a get sleep apnea test from your physician as part of your home snoring treatment. Using an insurance-covered polysomnogram, your physician will test your heart and breath rate while you're asleep. He may even ask you stay overnight at an insurance-covered sleep clinic to test your eye movement rate (such as REM) while you're asleep. Or he may give you an apparatus to take home and rate these things during the night, yourself. This procedure may seem a bit invasive, but sometimes it's the only way that a physician can get a proper evaluation and analysis of your specific sleep apnea problem.

The data gathered from this polysomnogram test (used at home or a clinic) will give your physician the data he needs to properly diagnose not only your specific condition, but also your specific prescription. A polysomnogram measures how your sleep apnea affects your body only - and results vary from person to person. In fact, if you compare the results of a friend with your own results, you'll see that they're very different. This is why your insurance-covered medication treatment will be different from your friends, and also why you should never share treatments with another person!

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