Absolutely!chunkyfrog wrote:I believe that in SOME clinics, overtitration is the rule.
CYA fails to consider comfort.
At the very least, we need to be able to check our ever-changing pressure needs--if only at home.
My sleep study was a split study, and during the titration, I only did short stints on my back. So, they knew what worked well on my side, but had to guess for my back, hence the 11-17 range. But I was lucky, and it works well for me. My ahi is almost always under 1.5, and the spikes past 15 are 2-3 a night max, maybe totalling 5 minutes. I do believe that if my pressure were topped at 14, I would stay on my back longer and have a lot more events. The pressure going up bothers me a little bit, so I tend to roll over, so it prevents events in a different way.
There are also times when we may need different settings. Medication change. Cold/cough/allergies, etc. Position change in sleep due to injury/illness. Weight gain/loss. Rather than waste time and money on sleep studies, it is nice to be able to look at data, make educated choices, and then test our choices and see how well they work.