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Yeah I think that might be what I will have to do. I thought maybe someone might have had this experience with these letters doctors gave and somehow it'd be enough for the FAA. Is your guess that the AME will look at the letters from 2 other doctors and say I don't have sleep apnea? As I...

Can you expand more on this? If my goal is 1st class medical for career flying, and even if someone has sleep apnea and uses cpap machine, they can still get the medical without having to be stuck with basic med, right?

Am I able to take any type of sleep study to the AME as evidence? Also, I did ask the 3rd doctor if what was on my record was an actual diagnosis. After starting at my history for a while with a stern expression, he did tell me in the end that it is a diagnosis. And I read on the website in the...

Thank you for all your comments. I'm getting a lot of insight here. Researching a lot myself too. It looks like certain home tests are less accurate for people at low risk of sleep apnea, which is in a way good and bad for me if I need to be accurate for the FAA. I did worry about bad data...

Unfortunately no, he didn't ask various questions that the Epworth scale shows online. He was more confused as to the other problem I was telling him about and trying to dig further into it. Now I have realized that the problem was completely unrelated and just some pinching pain that I feel...

Ah insurance would make sense why the first doctor put it in history. Unfortunate. But is it fair to say the 2 letters the following doctors wrote are meaningless to the FAA?

A few years ago I talked to a primary care physician about a problem I experienced even a few more years before that. He poked around my chest and asked if I was ever tired during the day. I said yes a little because I work with computers and have to stare at a screen for hours everyday. He...