Cpap

[huskerfanfl]

Does anyome have any idea how long it takes to get a CPAP or BPAP machine through the VA. I am having my second sleep study tomorrow evening and should get the script this week. I have an appointment at the VA clinic in Evansville Wednesday for my semi-annual checkup (boy do I have news, since my last appointment I have been diagnosed with anxiety/depression, have had arthroscopic knee surgery, and now the sleep apnea).

I am going to ask about getting the machine through the VA, but you all know how they sometimes like to blow smoke, so if anybody has any idea concerning the waiting time, I would appreciate some imput.

[Guest rickb54]

It took the va 8 working days to get me my home oxygen approved for delivery tomorrow.

it took 1 hour to get a nebulizer machine

it took 1 1/2 months to get my power chair

it took 6 months to get my power chair lift for vehicle..

I guess what I am saying is who knows.. sometimes they work quick sometimes not so quick....

[huskerfanfl]

I had a feeling that would be the case. I am retired and so I have TriCare, but there is a large copayment.

[betrayed]

Does anyome have any idea how long it takes to get a CPAP or BPAP machine through the VA. I am having my second sleep study tomorrow evening and should get the script this week. I have an appointment at the VA clinic in Evansville Wednesday for my semi-annual checkup (boy do I have news, since my last appointment I have been diagnosed with anxiety/depression, have had arthroscopic knee surgery, and now the sleep apnea).

I am going to ask about getting the machine through the VA, but you all know how they sometimes like to blow smoke, so if anybody has any idea concerning the waiting time, I would appreciate some imput.

about three weeks after rx was written

[jbasser]

It depends on the following data. If you have to have a sleep study, The results being read, Writing the prescription, scheduling an appt to come in to get the machine and also go over how to operate it.

I had an outside study done and faxed the results, I got the machine ( Auto Pap) in 1 visit. About an hour.

[Tower_Rat]

I had to go through 2 studies for it to be conclusive then the next week i picked it up and got the quick class how to use it.

[Robbi314]

My husband got called on 12/12 for a sleep study THAT NIGHT! I guess someone cancelled. He went b/c if he didn't go then, we both knew he'd have to wait forever for another chance. The person who did the study told him the next morning he would be getting a machine delivered to the house. It never came, but then we received an appointment schedule for 12/29 at the VA clinic, and that's when he got his machine.

Heck, we were called on 12/27 and told he was rated for 70% PTSD and IU and that it would take as much as 90 days before we'd get anything. We're still waiting! If I didn't have our Congressman's office verify the info we were given, I wouldn't believe it's happening!! Hope this helps!!