Bruxism and sleep apneia

[beet]

Mouth breathing is at worse when in deep sleep, you are not aware of it then, I smell B.S. Maybe those other forums won't call you on the spreading but here we will, don't trample our Flowers! Jim

I would see a high leak rate in the Sleepyhead report if I opened my mouth enough to create an aperture greater than the tiny vents in the mask.

[beet]

But you didn't just report your experience, you stated that MOST users habituate..... And that's just not true. Do you want things sugar coated like a child or what? I 'reported' from being on the forum a long time and seeing hundreds of people struggle with mouth breathing... and only a very few learning (not 'habituating') to keep their mouths closed by placing their tongues against the back of their teeth - and crossing their fingers hoping it worked even when they were asleep.

As I stated, I started with a full face mask because I believed that, as a mouth breather, I could not use a nasal mask.

I subsequently decided to try a nasal pillow mask because I read reports of several forum participants who successfully adapted as I described. I never would have tried it if the overwhelming majority of reports had been negative.

I admit I should not have declared what "most" people have success with because: (1) I didn’t do a statistical analysis of forum posts; and (2) we don’t know the number of CPAP users who don’t request advice on the forums because everything is going smoothly for them.

[Novello1234]

Thank you and how long does it take for grinding to disappear my apnea is much lower now since I am using cpap so how long does it take I thought it would stop right away I had a bad night I think with grinding last night and I had my cpap on. All night I used new mask on last night I am on cpap one week only and also my sleep is still poorly

The grinding may or may not get any better.

In my case, my TMJ problems, including teeth grinding got substantially worse during the first 8-9 months of PAPing. And my primary care dentist wound up referring me to a TMJ specialist after I chewed through a guard that was less than a year old and substantially damaged the replacement guard in less than 2 months. The TMJ specialist designed a treatment program designed to first heal my TMJs and then keep the grinding under control. It took several weeks of a "no chew" diet combined with 24/7 wearing of a guard to allow my TMJs to actually heal from the years of damage. It took several more months to "wean" me to wearing the guard only at night, and along the way I chewed through another guard or two. But with a lot of help from the TMJ specialist, we finally got it all sorted out.

Please note: My TMJ specialist describes me as "an interesting patient" because of how long it took him to figure out how to craft a custom night guard that did not trigger additional grinding. But once he got it figured out and made me a guard that doesn't trigger the additional grinding, the relief from the TMJ problems was almost immediate.

Hi what kind of guard do you have? Do you have the name or type please ? when you did grind did your teeth hurt or were they sore?
I did not wear my guard for two days then last night I wore I it feels worse They are going to make me a new guard because this one is too tight for me . My apnea is under control.

Hi Robysue.