Bufflehead

Wow, you are doing great with your pre-surgery weight loss. I'm just taking baby steps along this journey and what you're talking about is very inspiring. Looking forward to hearing more from you as you keep going

Are sleep studies generally required? If so, by the insurance company or a doctor? I am starting the process of hopefully getting approved for a sleeve, and I really have no interest in a sleep study. I don't have any sleeping problems and don't get fatigued during the day or wake up tired. I don't even use an alarm clock because I always wake up on my own between 5 and 6 AM and feel perfectly happy and refreshed. I do snore though, so I am concerned that some doctor will be convinced this means I have sleep apnea that needs to be fixed. I am very leery of sleep studies and their results, mostly because my sister worked in a sleep lab part-time while she was in medical school (a very respected sleep lab) and she had extremely unflattering things to say about the legitimacy of their diagnoses. She thinks they basically diagnose every single person with sleep apnea and then prescribe CPAP machines that make them sleep even worse than they did before. Like I said, I don't have any problems with sleep and don't want to shell out several hundred dollars for a sleep study and a CPAP machine that will make my nights miserable. I know this is a bizarre thing to be worried about in the pre-op journey but I need to save my money for other things . . .

thanks for the replies everyone! I think if a sleep study is suggested I will do everything I can to refuse it without jeopardizing my chances of approval. And, sadly for me, I am definitely big enough that I don't need any co-morbidities to fit in the standard approval criteria. In fact, it was my insurance company that suggested to me, completely unsolicited, that based on my BMI I should consider bariatric surgery. Hopefully that's a good sign for approval