CPAP users help needed!!!

[DaveS903]

I have not slept a single second without one after I got fitted. You might talk to your doc about a sleep helper until you gt used to it.

[USMCGRUNT1967]

I do love mine sleep well with it I have a full face mask.

[Mike Murphey]

Try this web site for Apnea patients....Something to understand, wash your face piece every night or you will not have a good seal around your face. Also make sure your mask is the right size for you. Take your mask to your doctor and make sure he/she is fitting it to you. I find my mask seals better at the lightest I can get it.....

http://s7.zetaboards.com/Apnea_Board/index/

[BBD19]

I slept with mine for about two hour! The next morning called my ears nose and throat doc and scheduled surgery the next weekend! I was laid up for about three days with recovery! Have slept like a baby every since!!!


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[Smart]

Love mine. Can't hardly sleep without it

Same here.... I haven't missed a day since I brought it home.

I just got it into my mind that it would save my life and I welcomed it.

[Ron]

I love mine too, full face mask. I take it everywhere I go.

[DocHolliday]

I slept with mine for about two hour! The next morning called my ears nose and throat doc and scheduled surgery the next weekend! I was laid up for about three days with recovery! Have slept like a baby every since!!!


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what kind of surgery did you have?

[sharkhunter]

I have tried ever setting on the thing. I have had it adjusted by the sleep center several times. It does not help that I sleep really light. everytime the seal breaks or it ramps up to higher pressure it wakes me up. To make it worse after I get woke up there is no going back to sleep. I am up for the rest of the night

Getting a good seal on a full face and keeping it through the night can be a problem.... If I go to bed with 2days of wiskers I have a problem... Also if I role over in my sleep it can dislodge the mask and leak as well...

It took me about a month to get us to mine but I feel your pain... Hang in there with it. Your quality of life will be better for it in the long run... I hear they make a machine now that is a breath on demand type. Might be worth looking into..

[BBD19]

I had my tonsils removed, my bicarbonates( small channels in your nose) and had my upper pallet trimmed! The bicarbonates was because I had my nose broken several your ago! The trimming of the pallet was the part that really helped! I had severe allergies before surgery also, but one side affect I had was my allergies are nonexistent!


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[Jakesfish]

After my heart attack, @ 43, I quit the body shop and it took a couple of years to realize I never slept. I was diagnosed 4 years ago w/ apnea, I use nasal pillows, and im good, sleep like a teenager again... It took awhile to get used to it.. My problem is I had my nose broken twice and 25 years in a body shop...

[BBD19]

Doc, the surgery was an outpatient surgery also! In and out in less then two hours!


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[pappabear]

I had my tonsils removed, my bicarbonates( small channels in your nose) and had my upper pallet trimmed! The bicarbonates was because I had my nose broken several your ago! The trimming of the pallet was the part that really helped! I had severe allergies before surgery also, but one side affect I had was my allergies are nonexistent!


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Hope this continues to work for you. I had the same thing after i couldn't keep my CPAP on. Felt good for a little while but now i'm back to the way i was before surgery.

[Iolabowhunter]

Everyone that sleeps in the same house with me likes my cpap just keep on using it...

[BBD19]

Yeah PapaBear, thats what the doc said! He told me if I would lose a little weight it would be more beneficial! It was well worth the money for me!!


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[pappabear]

Yeah PapaBear, thats what the doc said! He told me if I would lose a little weight it would be more beneficial! It was well worth the money for me!!


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i quit the tobacco after the surgery and gained a "few" pounds, that probably didn't help.