Sleep Apnea Diagnosis: Sleep Studies

• Expensive ($4000 before insurance is not uncommon)

• 6 week+ wait at Stanford

• Takes 2H to get setup with all the probes and test them before you can sleep

• You smell like ether when you come out, and get a free partial leg shave :)

• Schrödinger's cat problem: forcing me to sleep on my back for testing messes with my sleep (apnea is worse on my back).

• A split sleep study showed I was worse with a sleep appliance than without. It made no sense.