> Getting treated for sleep apnea was a game changer for me

I'd like to but that much money doesn't live in my pocket. It's on the list of stuff I hope for >62.

For hiking, you can buy a pulse oximeter for $200. Some of them can record up to 24 hours and then later you can review your "hike" on the PC to see if your blood oxygen ever went down significantly.

Hey man, obviously easy for me to say but really worth trying to at least figure out some way to check for this and get treated. It will literally kill you. Good luck

A major hurdle is the devices are typically DRM locked to manufacturers and a Rx is required before any programming can happen.

Not sure where in the world you are, but any country with public healthcare (most of the first world) you can do a sleep study free or low copayment. A basic CPAP you can usually rent, and you can switch off call home functions on all the ones I've seen.

> Not sure where in the world you are

US

> but any country with public healthcare (most of the first world)

You may not be familiar with US healthcare but the US both does and doesn't have public healthcare. It generally depends on which political party dominates the state gov.

> you [someone else] can do a sleep study free or low copayment.

How nice!

> A basic CPAP you can usually rent,

Not without a Rx.

> and you can switch off call home functions on all the ones I've seen.

That's cool but we're talking about something different - collecting data not blocking it. Specifically, the data collected by CPAP that's used to lower AHI.

CPAP makers like ResMed lock their data behind proprietary formats. The software that can read proprietary CPAP data is federally limited to Drs.

I’m guessing he’s in the part of the first world where none of that is true.