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Because (a) there are problems that are not sleep apnea that should not be missed, and (b) the cpap pressure needs to be titrated to your need, it’s not a binary device.

Admittedly, (b) is now less of an issue since there are a handful of auto-titrating machines on the market now. They’re less reliable than a sleep study, but they’re better than nothing.

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Yeah, the newest modern CPAP machines auto-titrate. On your back? It ups the pressure if it detects less breathing. On your side, it will lower the pressure. Its quite nice. I have a ResMed AirSense 10 for two years now...but I imagine if I had got my machine a few years earlier it would have been different.

It is true that other things can be the issue. There is a place for sleep studies, and at home sleep studies can detect sleep apnea fast and cheaply, and should be the first option, unless some other ?neurological? symptom is already presenting itself.

I have a Resmed S8 that is now at least 10 years old. They had APAP then, so it's not a new option.

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