I found out that I can expect maybe to have to wait until 2020 for a new sleep study.

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Talk about Backlogs! The county hospital in Dallas, TX is doing their best to help people during these days of health care changes, repealing and replacing Obamacare aka The not-so-affordable-health-care-act. But I am not complaining. I saw a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine aka CPAP or nasal CPAP, pronounced, See Pap! for between half a grand and a little over. As for buying one myself, maybe, but there is another thing to consider, the air pressure needs to meet my needs, so maybe, just maybe I can get tested anyway and find out I can get one through my insurance. I need to have the pressure of the machine, the setting written down for me so I can keep it in my medical records at home, in case I need a second machine down the road. If the pressure is set too low, it won't help so much, but if it is set too high, it might put too much pressure on my lungs. I am waiting to find out if the technology exists that allows a person already diagnosed with Sleep Apnea, to buy a CPAP machine themselves, and set the correct pressure by using a machine that is designed to adjust to lung capacity, body weight, age and so forth. Is this too much to ask? I mean, by the year 2020, without a machine for this I will snore every night, but I did lose a lot of weight since 20 years ago and that may make it unnecessary to go through all the sleep study tests with all those wires and spending the night in a hospital being monitored for blood pressure, pulse, pulmonary capacity, respiratory rate, times of cessation of breathing, and the brain itself, besides the obstructive variety of sleep apnea, the brain's central nervous system that controls and regulates the autonomic nervous system that controls breathing is related somehow to my double diagnosis of Central Sleep Apnea along with the Obstructive kind. I figure now is the time to get the facts about the sleep study I am scheduled for in the next month even if I may have to pay a little bit out of pocket because the alternative is to be put on a long waiting list to get an appointment with the central hospital which is county, rather than the University Hospital that offers me a study much sooner.