RE: 07-16-2010: Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014

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DomKen -> RE: 07-16-2010: Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014 (7/18/2010 4:50:02 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rulemylife quote: ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus Sleep studies are actually not that costly... Yes they are. I have had friends and relatives diagnosed with sleep apnea. The initial test costs at least $2,500, and that was several years ago. And the "cure" is this oxygen machine you have to wear at night which I have no idea of the cost of but it doesn't look cheap. Actually most people with sleep apnea don't need the positive pressure machine. They can get by on breathe right strips (I've got it and that's what I use). BTW this is a proposal by the FMCSA and is not in any law or regulation I can find.

rulemylife -> RE: 07-16-2010: Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014 (7/18/2010 5:00:04 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DomKen Actually most people with sleep apnea don't need the positive pressure machine. They can get by on breathe right strips (I've got it and that's what I use). BTW this is a proposal by the FMCSA and is not in any law or regulation I can find. I'm not an expert on it but everyone I know that has been diagnosed uses the machine. Which to me seems it would make it harder to sleep. I can't imagine being comfortable enough to sleep tethered to an oxygen mask.

DomKen -> RE: 07-16-2010: Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014 (7/18/2010 5:09:00 PM)
My doctor said to try the strips. They work great.

angelikaJ -> RE: 07-16-2010: Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014 (7/18/2010 5:09:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rulemylife quote: ORIGINAL: DomKen Actually most people with sleep apnea don't need the positive pressure machine. They can get by on breathe right strips (I've got it and that's what I use). BTW this is a proposal by the FMCSA and is not in any law or regulation I can find. I'm not an expert on it but everyone I know that has been diagnosed uses the machine. Which to me seems it would make it harder to sleep. I can't imagine being comfortable enough to sleep tethered to an oxygen mask. Funny thing, once they got accustomed to it, the people I know find they sleep much better with the machine than without it, and they wake up feeling rested and without chronic headaches or other symptoms they had before the machine.

thornhappy -> RE: 07-16-2010: Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014 (7/18/2010 5:12:18 PM)
There are portable and on-site testing technologies available that are covered by most insurance companies. The FMCSA did an evaluation of several studies on apnea and an additional on, concluding that more data and a better experiment design would be required before passing any new regulations. It looks like ideas are floating around but not in law. quote: ORIGINAL: LadiTrukDriver quote: ORIGINAL: pahunkboy 07-16-2010: Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014 what a crock!!!! How intrusive. As we can all tell, I am a truck driver. The government is trying to get it fully implemented that if a truck driver is over 33% BMI, now mind you, this includes those who work out & are in excellent shape, but you're over 33% BMI, you have to go get a sleep study done, why? Because you must have sleep apnea with a 34% or above, right? My BMI is approximately 43% (yes, I know I need to lose weight), and when this is implemented I will have to go to a sleep study to prove that I do NOT have sleep apnea. Mind you, a 42 year old man who is 6' 0" and weighs 250 is 33.9% BMI & considered Obese and has to do a sleep study to prove he doesn't have sleep apnea. A 42 year old female who is 5' 5" and weighs 204 is 33.9% BMI & considered Obese, and also has to do a sleep study to prove she doesn't have sleep apnea. So right there, if that is implemented prior to 2014, that will take care of over 3 million Americans. I too feel it's invasive & unfair, but if I want to continue my career I have to essentially allow the government to do what they want & implement what rules they want at MY COST, out of MY POCKET. I have been told a sleep study test costs anywhere from $2500 - $5000, I don't have that kind of money, but when the rule is put in place I better come up with it pretty quick or say goodbye to my career. So yes hunky, I can relate to what you're saying about the invasiveness

ModTwentyOne -> RE: 07-16-2010: Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014 (7/18/2010 11:18:54 PM)
I think I've pulled half the posts on this thread, most of it back and forth taunting. Please keep it on topic. Thank you. So, how about that BMI?

pahunkboy -> RE: 07-16-2010: Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014 (7/19/2010 8:51:10 AM)
As mentioned getting a BMI would not be hard. I noticed tho DRS locally ASK your weight- even tho there is a scale right there. in of itself- I dont think it is a threat. But to put it in a central database could be bad. Most people ARE over weight. The % is high. I do think that- asking weight rather then measuring ones weight is a bad idea. Let the facts be facts.

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