Rachael - I started to have irritable bowel problems 45 years ago in college and they continue to this day. My earliest problems were with pizza, fried dough and other yeasty breads. I have controlled my diet severely at times in my adult life losing 40 or 50 pounds at those times. I always suspecte...

Hi Linda. I have had food allergies for 45 years and PVCs have been with me for much of that time. They really bug me but doctors always tell me they are not serious. I recently began taking protonix for acid reflux and it seems like my PVCs are much reduced. I discussed it with my doctor and there ...

For Hawkeye or others. Can you define CFLEX for me? I started on CPAP of 10 and then went to APAP for a bit and then back to CPAP of 10 with expiration relief of 2. Is that what you mean by CFLEX? Also when I first described my "numb" feeling all over when I get up, with the heavy limbs and the shak...

I reached the "walking dead" state last summer and fall before I was retested and confirmed a diagnosis of sleep apnea that I had received 17 years ago and basically ignored for 17 years. During the fall in discussions wiht several doctors and a therapist I came to realize that the absolute exhausti...

Very important points. I feel like I am looking in a mirror. I don't know which came first - my apnea or my GERD and food allergies which definitely aggravate my apnea. My AHI really goes up if I have any gluten. However you nailed the cardiac irregularities, poor digestion, exhaustion, vertigo, and...

Thanks to all you responders. Julie and Laurie - I went to a gastroenterologist and he started me on Protonix. I realize now that I have GERD and have had it for quite awhile. I had considered it four years ago but an exam of my esophagus was OK. Now I realize that eating any kind of a heavy meal gi...

I developed a sore across the bridge of my nose using the ultra mirage full face mask and my home care tech switched me to a Fisher and Paykel Flexifit 432 full face mask. After three days I still have the open sore and a swollen area beneath it right on the front of my nose up high. I have been put...

Thanks Linda and Jim. My titrated pressure was 10 cm. For ramping up on the initial CPAP machine it started at 4 and then went up to 10 once I was asleep. Used a nasal mask but my mouth always dropped open. I changed to a full face mask and the APAP machine was initially set at 4 to 12 and the first...

Hi folks. Been on CPAP for six weeks and then changed to APAP 10 days ago. Last night and during a nap today I woke up belching up air. During the night I walked around once I got up and burped up some more air on two occasions before I went back to bed. Are my settings too high or does this happen ...

I had sleep studies done in 1989 and 1990 showing moderate to severe sleep apnea with mixed episodes of central and obstructive apnea. Frequent cardiac arrhythmias and significant desats. I just gave up on CPAP and lived with it for 17 years and tried to control it by not eating heavy late at night ...

Hang in there! I was diagnosed with sleep apnea 17 years ago and tried to alleviate it with my diet and not eating allergic foods or eating heavy late in the day. I tried a mask (circa 1990) and gave up and just tried to live with the apnea for the next 17 years. It kind of receded into the backgrou...

May I elaborate on your venting issue. After two hospital stays this past fall, and a load of drugs from cardiologists, my brother-inlaw, who is a small town family doctor, told me to get a sleep study. I booked the study with my local sleep lab and my doctor requested a split study so I could get t...

Thanks Brenda. Interesting to find a discussion on the topic. Misterdux

Thanks for the repy Peter. I guess I was just feeling "bulletproof" 17 years ago and the machine gave me a very dry, sore nose back then. I also felt that I looked like Darth Vader and somehow I could adjust my diet and fix the problem. Then it all receded into the background until recently when I t...

I have been a hosehead for only six weeks yet I am an old hand at suffering the effects of sleep apnea. I began having problems with food allergies and improper and insufficient digestion in the 1980s. In 1990 my wife had me go for a sleep study that showed I had moderate to severe sleep apnea and I...