TheMrsDunn

Thank you for the link! I looked at the store today but didn’t see any of the melt/bite type mouth guards just the ones for grinding which weren’t very big at all so I’m going to try ordering that two pack. The TAP is miserable on my teeth and jaw but a guard not pulling my jaw forward would be perfect I think. I try to get a good burp in the morning but some days I end up spitting up acid and having to wait out the gas bubbles 🤢 I wish I knew what I was doing differently on the nights I don’t swallow air so I could fix it. 😫

That’s a great idea, probably would be a lot more comfortable than the TAP. I meant the cpap is successful in that the sleep reports says my AHI and AI numbers are both averaging at 2 episodes (hourly I’m assuming but I’ll have to check the manual) during the night with the cpap. It breaks them into the apnea hypopnea index and just the apnea index on the report I was looking at.

Hello! I stumbled upon this forum while googling a question I had about my Cpap. Glad to meet other people who can relate, lol.

About me - I’m 27 now, have always been tall, very slender and snored ridiculously loudly my whole life. I had tonsils and adenoids removed at age 5 which didn’t help; was finally diagnosed with OSA at age 20 with AHI of 64, UP3 surgery at age 21 brought AHI to 36. Have had cpap since diagnosis, but was very non-compliant when I was younger. Pregnancy made the OSA worse so I upgraded to the machine I have now and had quit wearing it again once I got back to my normal weight and started feeling better. Pulmonologist got me a TAP but I couldn’t handle the sore teeth and jaw. Just started really using it consistently (60% of days according to the report) in the last year or so, after being diagnosed with a AV heart block.

I have had the ResMed S9 auto-sense for three years-ish and I just learned tonight I can access my sleep reports, lol. I have struggled for years with common cpap issues which is part of the reason I dread and avoid wearing the thing - removing the mask overnight (I keep it on average 4.5 hours) due to the gut wrenching aerophagia. I can barely stand up multiple days a week with the sharp gas pains for the first half hour of my morning. AND the waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep - I mean, I appreciate the CPAP gives me quality sleep but I wake up to burp at 4 am and here I am three hours later talking to you guys and the toddler wakes up in half an hour which there isn’t enough coffee for.

Tl;dr, Here are my questions - I’ve tried the chin strap, my mask is full face, and sleepy me is really crafty and takes the mask off anyway - how do I outsmart my sleepy overnight self to keep the mask on? I only end up wearing it half the night. And any tips for swallowing less air? My pressure range is 7 to 12 averaging 10.6 and successful AI of 2. At this point I’d even consider wearing the TAP again with the cpap to keep my mouth more closed or something.

Any tips and ideas are greatly, greatly appreciated!