help troubleshoot

i'll be scheduling an appt to discuss with doctor, but my details are:

started as newbie on cpap, using #4 pressure
felt great first week or so. really energetic. it's not that i slept longer, just sounder
after that week i started to feel bleh again
chest started to pain me in middle of night
it took me a while to figure it out, but i finally had a theory that the air being pushed into my body by the cpap and backpressure on my exhale could be taxing my lungs, so i did a test and stopped using the cpap a couple nights ago
it's been a few days and chest pain seemed to fully go away when i stopping using cpap

has anyone heard of such a thing?
i'm more inclined to think my lungs are weak as opposed to the machine not working properly, but maybe i'm not doing something right.

thanks much for any thoughts.

dougndoug wrote:i'll be scheduling an appt to discuss with doctor, but my details are:

started as newbie on cpap, using #4 pressure
felt great first week or so. really energetic. it's not that i slept longer, just sounder
after that week i started to feel bleh again
chest started to pain me in middle of night
it took me a while to figure it out, but i finally had a theory that the air being pushed into my body by the cpap and backpressure on my exhale could be taxing my lungs, so i did a test and stopped using the cpap a couple nights ago
it's been a few days and chest pain seemed to fully go away when i stopping using cpap

has anyone heard of such a thing?
i'm more inclined to think my lungs are weak as opposed to the machine not working properly, but maybe i'm not doing something right.

thanks much for any thoughts.

It is muscle soreness and will go away as the muscles grow stronger.
You haven't inhaled this fully in years. I went thru it too.

dougndoug wrote:i'll be scheduling an appt to discuss with doctor, but my details are:

started as newbie on cpap, using #4 pressure
felt great first week or so. really energetic. it's not that i slept longer, just sounder
after that week i started to feel bleh again
chest started to pain me in middle of night
it took me a while to figure it out, but i finally had a theory that the air being pushed into my body by the cpap and backpressure on my exhale could be taxing my lungs, so i did a test and stopped using the cpap a couple nights ago
it's been a few days and chest pain seemed to fully go away when i stopping using cpap

has anyone heard of such a thing?
i'm more inclined to think my lungs are weak as opposed to the machine not working properly, but maybe i'm not doing something right.

thanks much for any thoughts.

Is that your current pressure or is it where your pressure starts.......or what?
A pressure of 4 cm. is practically "nothing". What are ALL of your machine settings?

Are you monitoring your therapy with software? If not, why not?

I get the feeling some information is missing here.


Den

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that is the best news ever if it is just muscle soreness and will go away. at first i thought the chest pain was heart problems, then when i did the test and stopped using cpap and my chest felt better, i thought maybe i had lung problems.

i'm mid-40's and otherwise healthy (no issues with physicals, etc). i had asthma as a kid and think my lungs may be a bit weaker due to this than the average person.

how long did you have chest soreness until it went away completely? i've been on the cpap for a bit over 2 months. also, what pressure did you have it at?

to answer the other person's question, i was monitoring my therapy with that program everyone uses ( i forget name, the one with the sheep icon). all the lines looked low and constant. i did initially research what they meant, although i don't remember now. doctor said i needed the lowest pressure the machine uses, of 4 (i guess that is CM)