Apnea Forum Posting

Posted by Cue Miller on November 14, 1999 at 09:24:20:

In Reply to: TITRATION LEVELS posted by Lawrence on November 14, 1999 at 08:59:45:

I also think you should discuss this with your doctor and perhaps get another sleep study to check the pressure level. Just going by how you feel may or may not mean anything. You may be right, or you may be reacting to other, real problems associated with high pressures.

My own opinion is that titrating the pressure levels for CPAP is not yet an exact science, so your suspicions that your pressure levels are too high may well be correct. On the other hand, you may need a bi-pap machine or an autoset machine to accommodate the high pressures.

However, to take your single case and generalize it to all doctors or to all sleep studies is not scientific. I think when we post we have to be careful not to attribute cause and effect to things which may be pure coincidence, and not to generalize from specifics. In other words, just because your CPAP pressure is bothering you doesn't necessarily mean it's too high, and even if yours is indeed too high it doesn't mean that everyone else is in danger from this.

For example, my own observation from reading postings for a year and a half is completely the opposite of yours: that many people seem to have their pressure set on the low side, sometimes too low. My own doctors have always taken the conservative route with my own pressure and are now urging me to get tested again after my recent nasal operation, specifically because I *might* be able to lower my pressure (and it's already pretty low). But my personal observations and my own experience is meaningless when applied to someone else. Each titration is individual.

Follow Ups:

• Re: TITRATION LEVELS Lawrence 11/14/99 (2)
  • Re: TITRATION LEVELS Cue Miller 11/14/99 (0)
  • Re: TITRATION LEVELS John Len 11/14/99 (0)

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