Would you deliberately wake a snoring neighbour?

AylesburyDuck

_shel wrote: »

GP checklist aside it's mandatory to report to the DVLA and go through their medical process.

Might be a night time condition but causes day time sleepiness due to frequent waking each time they stop breathing. This sleepiness can be the cause of the licence loss, is for my hubby.

Again not so, the GP does the checklist and the GP is the one that will report to DVLA if needed.

Morglin

My husband has sleep apnoea which caused the most God awful snoring.:eek:

He has a CPAP machine now, and it’s a lot better. The first one was prescribed by the NHS, but then we moved counties and it would have taken an age to start again with the sleep clinic etc.(which this health authority insisted on) so we now purchase our own machine and parts.

However, the firm we buy from, ResMed, did insist on a letter from our GP that he had been prescribed one in the first place.

DVLA told us, at the time, that unless the GP reports it as a day time problem, they don’t need to be formally notified of it.

Lin

Blondetotty

[Can't wait to get started with the CPAP machine now![/QUOTE]

Please get an official diagnosis first! My local authority in Manchester were really quick and from the first GP visit to collecting my CPAP machine (which was a brand new Res Med) was less than 2 months. They fitted me for a mask correctly, they order mask liners, new filters and more importantly keep tracking the pressures and apnoea episodes I do have. It took a good 4 months of changing pressures, adding humidification and changing masks before I was totally comfortable. Just buying a machine, even if you could without a prescription, is NOT advisable. You can rent sleep study machines if your GP is resistant to referring you to a sleep clinic but please don't just assume you have obstructive apnoea and buy one, you could do more harm than good.

FYI as someone else has also said, you DON'T need to report sleep apnoea to the DVLA unless you suffer from "excessive daytime sleepiness" which you'll be aware of, and which will also be questioned when you do the Epworth test. My GP and my Respiratory Consultant both confirmed this and so does the DVLA if you read their guidance on sleep apnoea.