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Hello everyone. Sorry for not responding sooner.
Thank you all so very much for all the great advises; greatly appreciate it :)
Anyways, I followed up with my extended health coverage from my employer and it turns out that the employer recently revised the policy and now everything is 100% covered (previously it was 70% or 80%)! The sleep clinic sent a request to the insurance company to check how much they are going to cover (a total of $2560 canadian $) and the insurance company got back to us, saying they will cover $2520 (cpap + mask + filters + humidifier + heated tube), $40 for the dc adapter excluded. Pretty darn good I must say! So I decided to move forward with the sleep clinic. I get the extra 1 year warranty (3 years vs 2 years) and follow ups and such for no additional cost.
Now the clinic is giving me the option of either getting a Philips or a Resmed. I got the philips today for a week trial and then will move to resmed to see if that is any better and then I can choose whichever I want (same cost).
Should I opt for the philips or the resmed?
Hello everyone. I am 29 years old and got diagnosed with OSA today. My AHI is 76 (scary!). I am from Canada and the private sleep clinic has given me the option to either pursue with their trial run (will cost me $200 for the mask and will let me switch it within a month if the initial one doesn't suite me) and then (if I want to move further) purchase one of the their three machines they are offering (the fixed pressure one @ ~$1600 with the variable pressure model @ ~$2400).
I did a little research online and seems like I can get "Resmed AirSense 10 AutoSet with integrated humidifier and climateline air tube" + "resmed p10" OR "resmed quattro" for ~$700 shipped. The other option would be "dreamstation pro heated tube + humidifier" + "dreamwear nasal mask" OR "wisp nasal mask" for ~$600 shipped. Insane difference.
The sleep tech was telling me that they are providing 3 years vs 2 years warranty along with "followups" and "adjustments" but with this much of a price difference, I will need to replace the machine few times before hitting the amount of money they are charging.
I took these numbers to my family doctor and he was blown away by the difference. He told me to just get the machine online and he will be able to help me with any sort of adjustment required (as long as the machine logs data and he can look at it). I know the prescription has been signed off by the sleep doctor but I am not sure if the suggested pressure is mentioned in there.
So I am just wondering if I should do the trial and then buy the machine myself or just get the machine directly and then go from there. I am pretty good with understanding and operating complex devices so setting pressures and such should not possess any challenge for me but I am not sure where to start for the pressure (assuming the prescription won't state the pressure). I am 100% sure the sleep technicians just go off a chart or something to tune these machines (now that they are so advance, especially the automatic ones) based on the data and such.
Any suggestion and information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks :)
