I love Titrations

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Re: I love Titrations

Post by Slinky » Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:40 am

Yep, I gotchyer meaning, RG. But you see our difference are what should make us such a valuable pair for PSG research and training. ARE YOU LISTENING, PSG AND SLEEP RESEARCHERS AND TRAINERS???

We is the Good, the Bad and ..... who do we invite to go along w/us for the Ugly??? (Ugly by disposition, not by looks).

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Re: I love Titrations

Post by rested gal » Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:53 am

Slinky wrote:..... who do we invite to go along w/us for the Ugly??? (Ugly by disposition, not by looks).
Why, SleepingUgly, of course! Not "Ugly" by disposition or looks, but just 'cause her nickname is right! And she'd be fun at the sleep study party.
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Re: I love Titrations

Post by Slinky » Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:59 am

Sounds like a winner!!!

I just thought of ugly by dispostion as a good challenge for a sleep techie trainee.

BUT - fun for us sounds more better for us!!!!! SleepingUgly is our choice then! Its unanimous.

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Re: I love Titrations

Post by OutaSync » Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:38 am

Wait! I want to be the "Ugly"! I have lots of things going on, too. Mostly just don't get decent sleep.
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Re: I love Titrations

Post by SleepingUgly » Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:55 am

Great! I'm in! I needed a post-op sleep study anyway! When do we start??
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Re: I love Titrations

Post by Slinky » Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:02 am

We've gotta find the durn sleep researchers, sleep tech students and sleep tech teachers and twist their arms to convince them we are the perfect guinea pigs for the PSGs.

NOw that I think on it tho - IF we can find someone w/a really ugly disposition we could volunteer them for any RRTs who want to get an easy pass on qualifying to do PSGs!!! Don't you think that would be fitting?

UncleBob, I apologize for stealing your thread.

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Re: I love Titrations

Post by SleepingUgly » Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:28 am

Maybe Muffy could move his sleep lab again and use us to calibrate the machines?
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Re: I love Titrations

Post by M.D.Hosehead » Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:48 am

SleepingUgly wrote:Maybe Muffy could move his sleep lab again and use us to calibrate the machines?

That really would be a party not to be missed! The problem is, I don't think anyone would get any sleep.

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Re: I love Titrations

Post by Uncle_Bob » Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:42 am

SleepingUgly wrote:Did they titrate to eliminate RERAs? How was the outcome of this titration different than the one before? If I remember correctly, you were doing this because you were still tired on your previous pressure, right?
Some questions for me to ask the doctor there. I did it because i was feeling tierd and had 2 or 3 days a week with lots of centrals.

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Re: I love Titrations

Post by rested gal » Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:46 am

OutaSync wrote:Wait! I want to be the "Ugly"! I have lots of things going on, too. Mostly just don't get decent sleep.
Sure, Bev! You're in, too, even though you're a far cry from "ugly" in any way.
Slinky wrote:We've gotta find the durn sleep researchers, sleep tech students and sleep tech teachers and twist their arms to convince them we are the perfect guinea pigs for the PSGs.

NOw that I think on it tho - IF we can find someone w/a really ugly disposition we could volunteer them for any RRTs who want to get an easy pass on qualifying to do PSGs!!! Don't you think that would be fitting?.

I think we can goad each other into some pretty good rants, Slinky, if we put our minds to it.
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Re: I love Titrations

Post by SleepingUgly » Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:28 pm

Uncle_Bob wrote:Some questions for me to ask the doctor there. I did it because i was feeling tierd and had 2 or 3 days a week with lots of centrals.
Did they change the pressure or anything else based on this titration?
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This Should Clear Things Up!

Post by NotMuffy » Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:39 am

rested gal wrote:
OutaSync wrote:Wait! I want to be the "Ugly"! I have lots of things going on, too. Mostly just don't get decent sleep.
Sure, Bev! You're in, too, even though you're a far cry from "ugly" in any way.
Slinky wrote:We've gotta find the durn sleep researchers, sleep tech students and sleep tech teachers and twist their arms to convince them we are the perfect guinea pigs for the PSGs.

NOw that I think on it tho - IF we can find someone w/a really ugly disposition we could volunteer them for any RRTs who want to get an easy pass on qualifying to do PSGs!!! Don't you think that would be fitting?.

I think we can goad each other into some pretty good rants, Slinky, if we put our minds to it.
Count me in too!

However, in spite of a cast of hundreds in GBU, you guys have taken the 3 Brand Name Characters (although who's Bev gonna be- "The Babe With No Name?")

I think I'll be Rowdy Yates:

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He's the guy who came earlier but was later and had a name before he lost it and even though GBU was the last of the Trilogy it was really the first which would make The Man With No Name and The Man With A Name contemporaries (speaking historically, of course) relative to the beginning of the saga (The End).
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Re: I love Titrations

Post by carbonman » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:54 am

OutaSync wrote:I want to be the "Ugly"!
....and always remember,

"When you got to tweak,
.....tweak, don't talk."
"If your therapy is improving your health but you're not doing anything
to see or feel those changes, you'll never know what you're capable of."
I said that.

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Re: I love Titrations

Post by SleepingUgly » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:43 pm

OK, so I think we decided that Rested Gal, Bev, and I will spend 3 nights at Muffy's lab. We'll be randomly assigned each night for having our hypopneas scored by either the AASM Recommended, AASM Alternative, or Chicago criteria (no condition repeated within a subject). Neither we, nor the sleep techs spending the joyous nights with us, will know which condition we're in on any given night. Muffy will do the scoring and will be blind to whose data he's scoring. Carbonman is going to show us slideshows of his nature photographs before bed so we can relax. Who would like to entertain us so we will stay awake during the day?
Never put your fate entirely in the hands of someone who cares less about it than you do. --Sleeping Ugly

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Re: I love Titrations

Post by OutaSync » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:47 pm

McSnoresalot is pretty funny, at least when he is sleeping!
Diagnosed 9/4/07
Sleep Study Titrated to 19 cm H2O
Rotating between Activa and Softgel
11/2/07 RemStar M Series Auto with AFlex 14-17
10/17/08 BiPAP Auto SV 13/13-23, BPM Auto, AHI avg <1