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The noise is coming from the air going through the pillow into my nose, and when i exhale, how would coating the tank with vasoline stop that? I did make the ramp time 0, that helps, but haven't tried a thicker pillow under my head... I think i realized that i am a mouth breather, is it possible to train yourself to breath through the nose when you have been breathing through the mouth for so many years?
Yes, i have installed Oscar and have looked at the data, but not understanding some of them doesn't help, i am learning and hope to be able to decipher all of the data as some point..
Thanks for the response, I can give that a try, but not sure if it will help, the pressure is already set to auto and within 2 or 3 minutes it is as high as 16, my brother in law has one of these and he told me that if it goes that high, i really need the CPAP... it is going that high while i am still awake and seems that it might be due to my pattern of breathing? Not sure... But i will try your suggestion...
Thanks again!
Hello, i know this has been covered, but other circumstances are slightly different... I am a new user of CPAP and I have the Resmed 10 unit. I am using the pillow, the settings are on 5-20 and have no issues with air leaking. The first night i tried had a very long ramp time of 10 minutes and i found myself air starved and would take extremely long breaths to make up for it. Exhaling took too long as well and after about 4 breaths i felt suffocated and would open my mouth and take a huge breath to catch up. the 2nd night i set the ramp to 5 minutes and after about 5 minutes i felt like i was getting enough air, but couldn't fall asleep due to sounding like darth vader... The 3rd night i set the ramp to 0 and felt like i was getting enough air but darth vader was laying next to me and wouldn't let me sleep...
I did notice that i seem to take longer breaths when on CPAP than i do when not. I am a shallow breather, quick in, quick out, but it seems that when on CPAP i can't get the same pattern to work. I am a very light sleeper as it is and that is making it hard to fall asleep. One of the nights i went to bed i was totally exhausted and still couldn't fall asleep with the CPAP, i end up pulling it off and falling asleep without it.
Is it just a matter of training yourself to fall asleep while listening to Darth Vader? My wife is a deep sleeper (learned to sleep through most of my snorning) and it doesn't seem to bother her.. My sleep study revealed that i had 8 events over an 8 hour period, they told me it was mild sleep apnea. I am at a loss as to what to do to make this work, everyone i have talked with that has used a CPAP machine has said that their quality of sleep is much better while using it, I would like to find out if I will benefit from it as well...
Please help this unsleepable soul!
