DH has been snoring for around 10 years. Around 5 years ago I was worried he had sleep apnoa and after a great deal of persuasion went to the GP. I had to go with him to encourage him to go but the GP never referred him and he refused to chase the referral.
A few weeks ago he agreed again to get tested. As we had private health he went with this and did a sleep study at home. It turns out to be very severe, his score was 65. However the private consultant said they would need to refer him back to the nhs to get a cpap machine. I am now really worried about how long this will take. The consultant said it will be really quick becuase it is so severe but I am not sure if this is really the case. Has anyone else had an urgent referral on the nhs for this? Although he has had a home sleep study the consultant said he would need to attend a sleep clinic to get the cpap configured correctly. Does anyone know how quick this is likely to be?
I was wondering about just buying a machine as a temporary measure but if it needs configuring then that is not much help. Is there anything else he could do in the meantime to help? It doesn't help that the private consultant has now gone on holiday for a month so cannot answer any questions about the process. I am surprised that there are no private sleep clinics that our health insurance (axa) will use and it still has to go through the nhs.