Your perimenopausal and menopausal patients' sleep complaints may be undiagnosed sleep apnea. SOMOS gets them evaluated, tested at home when appropriate, and treated fast, with clear updates back to your practice. Your patient stays your patient.
Perimenopause measurably raises the risk of obstructive sleep apnea. Declining progesterone, a respiratory stimulant, and declining estrogen, which helps maintain upper-airway muscle tone, slowly erode the body's airway protection.[1] Sleep complaints climb sharply through the late 40s and early 50s, exactly when your visits get fuller.
But OSA in women rarely announces itself with the classic male picture of loud snoring and daytime sleepiness. It shows up as fatigue, insomnia, brain fog, mood changes, and morning headaches, symptoms that read as "hormones." So it gets filed under menopause and missed, right as it's becoming more common.
The same hormonal shift moves fat toward visceral stores, tying sleep, weight, blood pressure, and glucose into one self-reinforcing loop. That's why the patient in front of you, with new weight gain, a creeping A1c, and unrefreshing sleep, is often describing one problem, not four.
Which makes the perimenopausal visit a screening window: a chance to catch modifiable sleep and metabolic risk before it hardens into hypertension, type 2 diabetes, or cardiovascular disease. Objective home testing, not a months-long specialist waitlist, is how that window gets used.[2]
[1] Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea (PMC)[2] AASM clinical practice guideline for diagnostic testing for adult OSA (PMC)
We enable your care - we don't compete with it. SOMOS does the specialist evaluation, testing, and treatment your practice can't run in-house, and keeps you in the loop at every step.
We contact your patient and get them scheduled within 48 hours, and they're seen within 3–5 days. Home sleep testing - no lab scheduling, no months-long specialist wait.
You receive the results and clinical notes from your patient's care. No chasing, no black hole - the record returns to your practice, and the patient returns to you.
One form, or the Clinical Bridge if you're a partner. No prior authorizations, no portal setup, minimal lift for your staff.
We contact your patient within 48 hours. A sleep & metabolic specialist evaluates whether testing is warranted.
When indicated, an FDA-cleared home sleep study runs in the patient's own bed - no sleep lab visit.
A specialist reviews the study and initiates treatment matched to the patient: CPAP, oral appliance, CBT-I, GLP-1, or a combination.
You receive the results and clinical notes, and your patient returns to your care with the sleep piece handled.
A board-certified sleep & metabolic physician evaluates whether testing is warranted - no testing is ordered without it.
Only if testing is indicated: the at-home study, the specialist read, and starting treatment, all in one flat price.
Care is cash-pay with transparent flat pricing - no surprise bills. After the visit, your patient receives a superbill they can submit to their commercial insurance for possible reimbursement; coverage is plan-dependent and not guaranteed.
The same intake form used across the SOMOS Clinical Bridge. We contact your patient within 48 hours, and you receive the results and clinical notes from their care.
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