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It wakes me up from Rem sleep and even though I do the tongue thing it doesn't stop it completely and although now that I am awake, it just keeps a blowing. I thought my smart Res Med Air Sense 10 when on auto knows when I am awake. Well, it failed I tweaked my tech. settings and hoping tonight to get to sleep all night. Ha, they will put me in jail for doing that but It beats trying to get their help. They suggested a full mask that I received in the mail from the med supply office and that was worse than the nasal. That tongue just relaxes in Rem sleep.
No response from my CPAP tech on my issues plus she is so busy that she doesn't answer my message calls. Last time I talked to her I said "firmly" to contact my MD which is within feet of her office. She said she would but she didn't.
I returned to my old nasal mask last night. The Amara mask was sent to me by mail from my local hospital's medical supply office. It's going back. Total leaks all night.
Here are my results of my sleep last night after I entered the "no zone" of the technical menu.
Events hr.9 Pressure Used 9.4 Leak 6L/min AHI 1.3 Total AL 1-1 Central AL 0-7
I do not know if these results are good or bad but by tweaking my numbers, I SLEPT GREAT FINALLY!! Res Med Air Sense 10 for her plus nasal mask.
-Barb
Res Med Air Sense 10 for her CPAP. Well, I received my new Full Face Mask. They say that people like it. Note- It is my first full CPAP mask. Before this one, I've had two nasal masks. My CPAP machine is a Res Med Air Sense 10 Auto set for her. Last night for the first time I used the new Amara View CPAP mask first time last night. It covers just the mouth and your nose sets on a shelf where the air enters your nose and it doesn't cover the nose completely. This was WORSE. I loved the freedom of nothing in my nose or tape being placed over my lips although I still don't open my mouth. Once again the air was so violent that I could not control the mask from leaking all night. The air blew out from under the mask at any point it could. I opened my mouth next just to test what would happen and the air rushed out of my mouth like Old Man Winter. I adjusted the straps over and over and even pressed the mask to my face. It was a short night
My technician said she would contact my MD. about pressure changes. I am not sure that he was the one that set the perimeters in the first place as I took the original test at home per my MD and thought the results might have gone to a sleep Dr. that I never did see. Perhaps in a different town. The original report stated I had a mild to moderate apnea. I remember a number of 15.
The real reason I am concerned is that I have Afib and knowing that sleep apnea could be a trigger that may set it off. I will probably have Afib the rest of my life but it is not constant. Between 2003 and 2014, I've had 4 ablations for it at a University hospital. They lesson the beast but most likely there is no complete cure.
Back to the nasal mask tonight. oooeeeeeoooo
-Barb age 76
Wow, yakky me. This is only my 3rd reply or question since I started on this forum today. I'm so glad I found it.
I also bought that buckwheat husks pillow some time ago. (I have tried a truck load of pillows because of my neck pain). The only thing negative I have found with the buckwheat husks pillow is that when I adjust my old body all night long it's like trying to sneak up on a deer in the forest. I hear every move (crunch crunch). Now that pillow is somewhere around here. Maybe I will give it to Goodwill.
-Baba
My husband has had his SoClean now for several years. The timer is set to clean soon after he gets up in the am. Yes, our bedroom smells like ozone for awhile but by the time he goes to bed at night, that smell is gone. If it bothers some people, it might be helpful if they would take their equipment out of the machine and like lay them aside away from the SoClean if that helps. It use of SoClean doesn't seem to wear his equipment prematurely. Please not the setting stay the same and are easy to set EXCEPT when our house looses power and then the time has to be once again adjusted.
Being the kind of man that he is, I sure wouldn't trust him washing his equipment. IE: The SoClean. If I counted on him to feed our dog, the dog would be very thin.
So what I understand you saying, it doesn't matter if my Dr. approves that my pressure is changed down to 10 or just left at 15 because I am only using 9.8 of it anyway which is not the cause of the air in the cheeks puffing them out in the early morning. It is "simply a side effect of treatment" then. They ordered me a full face mask which I should receive in a few days. I am hoping the "side effect" will disappear and Yeah, no more tape at least. I also assume that the other settings are not the cause of my problem then like "Ramp off, EPR off" and a few others that I don't know what they mean. I feel better just from your response.
Baba
I use a AirSense 10 Cpap for women and a nasal mask. During about the last two hours of sleeping, I awake with air entering my mouth. I squeeze my cheeks together and it disappears. Yes, I start by positioning my tongue to the roof of my mouth but I think during the night it relaxes. This happens over and over until I finally get up. I am losing sleep almost every morning. My pressures setting are 5-15. I have resorted to using paper tape each night over my lips as the air would puff out of my mouth if I didnt. I have seen this done by other people and it works in my case. Air does not escape my mouth thru my lips doing this. I have tried a chin strap before using tape but when this happens early in the morning, it can still puff air thru my lips (ie: the paper tape}.
I have told my health provider and she is in the process of sending me a new mask that covers the mouth and still has holes so the air streams upwards and enters my nose. It is a very new mask, small, and jell like so I will as always be able to sleep on my side. This I think will eliminate the use of the paper tape. Yeah!
BUT, I think I will still have that high pressure entering my cheeks in the morning. Do you think the pressure is set too high? I just finally contacted my technician that sets the Cpap up. She says my usage is no higher than a 9.8 pressure .. This complicated and she will contact my Dr. about lowering the level of pressure. I won't know if this helps but if I am using tops of 9.8 pressure, how would this be too high in the morning because it isn't at night? Strange or my lack of understanding.
My Cpap is Wifi connected and my reading daily are right on the mark except for a lack of morning sleep from the puffy cheek thing.
*By the way, this is my first post.
