When I was first seeing a sleep doctor she believed I had narcolepsy because I have several of the signs of it, hypnogogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis, etc. (but no cataplexy, thank heavens.) After my psg I was diagnosed with "Sleep Apnea/UARS" and started on cpap. I have improved greatly, and h...

I don't have too many of the sleep onset events, but when I first started with cpap a year and a half ago i had a similar sensation, like I was forgetting to breathe, during the day. A lot! It went away after about a month so I forgot about it pretty much. At the time I read a few other threads abou...

Mike, the more I think about it the more what your sleep lab is saying makes sense to me. Again with the: "Except what about the desaturation?" caveat. In the losing weight thread a study was quoted about sleep disruption reducing your ability to process sugar, all those studies where they take peop...

Very interesting posts Echo, and Jen. Jen you should try other fermented foods like sauer kraut or tempeh if you can't eat yogurt. They also have probiotics, though I don't know whether they are more easily assimilated than pb8 pills. I have a gluten intolerance and it has transformed my life to be ...

I feel for you! I had first flu, than pneumonia a few weeks ago. I got my doctor to write an order for a FF mask, though to tell you the truth it didn't do much good, but it did do some good, so it's worth a try.

Stay hydrated and feel well soon.

A timely topic, I was up all night because I have the flu, and last night I couldn't breath through my nose at all. Though, the 102 fever may have contributed to my wakefulness too. I was going to call my DME and see if they would bring me a quattro. I am due for a new mask, my insurance will pay fo...

I had had so many health problems, and had been prescribed so many medicines that ended up harming me that by the time I was sent for a PSG I had no trust in western medicine and was very jaded. I almost didn't go to my sleep study, fearing that it was just another chance to get put on dangerous med...

When I first started with CPAP I also had a number of odd breathing problems during the day, not quite the same as yours, but my pressure was pretty low. The strange air hunger I felt during the day faded after about a month of adjustment. Perhaps if you could stick with cpap, even if it's only a fe...

I have followed your story since I started on this board, for totally unrelated reasons I was looking up glutathione and n-acytl-cystein and noticed that NAC is a mucolytic and I thought of you. I have no idea whether it might help, but it might be worth exploring and it is different than anything y...

Go you!

Don't you love it when you get into a good groove?

I am a side and or stomach sleeper and I had to go to a nose-covering mask, the pillow style masks made me nuts. Plus, I think the nose-covering masks are quieter.

Other than that, what Rested Gal said. Hanging your hose was the best advice I ever got.

My full saga is around somewhere on the site, but after one year I have to say: I actually LIKE my cpap. I look forward to breathing with it. It feels GOOD. How freakishly strange that sounds, but it's true. I often think during the day how nice it would be to keep a spare cpap by my desk so I could...

I would just add that going on one med for a while makes total sense, but if you feel at all worse don't fall down the rabbit hole of adding more meds, increasing doses, etc. I don't know what its like Down Under, but when I had problems with depression and went on an anti depressant next thing I kn...

I wanted to ask this earlier: what do you mean (any of you) by "feeling anxious" in sleep? There is the conscious realization that the tightness in your chest and agitated movements and shallow breathing are because you are worried about xyz. But often I have anxiety that is unrelated to thoughts or...

I switched from distilled to tap water after a while, but have switched back because my city changed the chemicals they use to treat the water and there is a strong chemical smell that gives me a headache, and I wonder what breathing concentrated vapors will do to my lungs. Also, it's supposedly har...