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titration question

Posted by Curious George on October 18, 2002 at 18:50:16:

I was recently diagnosed with severe sleep apnea. During the sleepstudy, the technicians had about 2 dozen probes wired to my head, chest and legs. After the test, my pulmonary doctor prescribed CPAP with an initial settting of 7 cmH2O until a titration could be scheduled. After about 6 weeks of CPAP, I finally got in this week for my titration.

Unlike the original sleep study, for the titration , they only connected 2 probes to the chest, 1 to the finger and a microphone to the throat. Then they hooked me up to an autoPAP and left till morning.

After all that I've read on this forum about the problems with one autoPAP verses another, one trigger verses another and even recently Kevin in Walla Walla posted that they had the same patients on different autopaps for 2 week periods and got back average pressures up to 8 cm apart, should I be concerned that this method of titration is ---less than preferred?

I guess after all that I've read here I was expecting to have technicians monitoring my sleep/apneas and carefully tweaking the pressure up and down till they've successfully eliminated them. After all that you go through to get this far, I wanted the peace of mind that the test was done properly and the results were adequate.


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