TGB1
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2013
- Messages
- 197
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 12/2012
- Country
- US
- State
- PA
- City
- Pittsburgh
I read on this forum that a lot of pals prefer the trilogy machine. My mom's pulmonologist has recommended and AVAPs (?) machine. Does anyone have any information about this? Right now I am having an awful time getting her insurance to approve her for one. She had a daytime sleep study and a nocturnal pulse ox, but her oxygen level did not go down when she was sleeping so that didn't qualify her. And they are saying that the daytime sleep study was not enough to qualify her. When she had her FVC done she couldn't even get a proper seal so those numbers are essentially worthless. I cannot understand why it is so difficult to get an 86 year old woman with a diagnosis of als a proper breathing machine.