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== Second Sleep Study – CPAP Titration ==
Titration Study: a study with a mask to determine your treatment settings. You will be "fully wired up". This is both good and bad. The good is that the study will show, and adjust to all the forms of sleep apnea that you have, very very good. The bad part is that you are doing these sleep studies "fully wired up" many, many wires to your head, torso and legs, on a strange bed, with a strange pillow, a video camera watching you all night, this odd (for now) contraption attached to your face, and you will even need help to go to the bath room. Have a good "normal" nights sleep (right. . . . . ).
You will need to shampoo your hair after this study.
The result of this study is a recommendation for settings that your Doctor will use for your Prescription. It is based on this one nights sleep and you will most likely be getting a prescription for a single, unchanging pressure to work for you for years too come. Generally the Apnea Board likes to see an Auto machine prescribed, either an Auto CPAP, or when appropriate an Auto BiPap/BiLevel machine. The Auto machines may be run as a single pressure Fixed CPAP or in Auto Mode changing to your changing conditions. A short note here, in some cases a fixed pressure is the best solution (I didn't say a non-Auto machine). I am sure your sleep studies represented "normal" nights sleeping, right. . .
Note: This is an opportunity to try different masks on. Use it for this. The lab will get the data they need from any masks you use. The chance to try on multiple masks is few and far between. Take advantage of the opportunity to talk to your sleep tech, they work with many people that have never used a mask and are practiced at fitting them. Occasionally I have received the samples I tried to take home.
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