Lauren D.
Talk to an actual clinic... waste of money... shouldn't charge specialist copay
It didn't do as much as I had hoped and the services available are very limited. The expectation was that I had a clear goal about my sleep. My sleep is very dysregulated working a night shift and the solutions provided did not seem like they would make much impact. The provider said my sleep study data was not very good and it made it difficult to make too many inferences on it. I said I was willing to do the study again and was told the device only had a certain amount of time available. Given the poor quality of my sleep, I think I actually had enough time left on the device to do another study. I would have paid more for another study, but my guess ia maybe my insurance wouldn't cover it or the app wouldn't offer it. I don't feel like the provider was the problem. The services provided by Dreem seem incredibly limited. I looked again on the site and it just sounds like a lot of empty promises with no real specifics except something akin to "we'll help you get better sleep." Dreem doesn't seem to test for anything other than sleep apnea. I already knew that I have sleep apnea. The provider did adjust the pressure on my cpap and tell me some information that I was not aware of prior, such as my heart rate going sometimes up to 150 vpm per minute, but that was it. The solutions offered were not very helpful. One solution that was offered was writing a letter of medical necessity to my employer to see if I could be moved to night shift. I didn't mean to, but I laughed. I work in healthcare in a hospital. No one cares about how much sleep I get. There is always plenty of work available and all the overtime I could ever want or not want. I know multiple people who shift between night and day shifts within the same week. I know several nurses who are mothers who work nights and shift to a day schedule on their days off so they can be present as a parent on their days off. There were never any recommendations about my concerning heart rate, not even any conversation about talking to a primary care doctor or helping me find another provider or service that would actually do more than Dreem. I'm actually more upset as I write this because I am out $120 for 2 appointments and I feel like almost nothing was accomplished. The only good that came of getting services through Dreem is that I have an idea that my sleep apnea is worse than I thought Dreem doesn't seem to do much of anything for people with actual sleep problems. I suspect that I may have more issues than just sleep apnea. The only solution for my sleep apnea was to increase the pressure. Perhaps I could have benefited from a bipap or a different cpap device. The more I think about this, the angrier that I am that I was charged for this service I could have gotten the aame answers from my PCP. I am being charged $60 per session for a specialist. Seeing my PCP wouls have cost me $20 per session. All the provided did was look at my Cpap data and talk to me about it and basically tell me it looked bad and I already knew that. Honestly, this feels criminal that your company is offering mediocre services and asking for a specialist copay. Literally, how dare you. I am out $80 extra because your service is bullshit. I now intend to talk to customer service to see if I can get any kind of reimbursement or refund for this. What f-ing bullshit. This was a waste of my f-ing time. After talking to that provider twice, I contacted an actual sleep clinic with actual f-ing doctors locally to get real services done. That is the only good. Your services were such f-ing bullshit, that it prompted me to contact doctors at an actual clinic. F you and f your company. I want my money back. Your service is garbage. What a f-ing waste of money.
Response from Dreem Health Sleep ClinicOct 22, 2026
Hi Lauren, thank you for taking the time to write this. This isn't the experience we want anyone to have, and frustration about cost and next steps is something we take seriously. We'd like to understand what happened and talk through any billing questions directly. Please contact our team at (650) 761-4056 or email us at [email protected] and mention this review. We truly appreciate your time while we work through this together.




