This is a follow-up to my problems with aerophagia and cpap. Back when my original message was written, I was forced to abandoned cpap based on my old Rx and the subsequent difficulties sleeping that swallowing air caused me. In fact, I stopped using it because I needed to get some sleep . This cpap...

In the very brief time that I have been a member of this forum I have become aware of several useful (to me) things. There are some nice folks here who know more than I do about apnea and related problems, plus treatment options and are willing to share their knowledge. (through a Private Message) P...

"silverlining users"? .... 20cm/h2o is a lot of pressure (probably your IPAP), and if it were me, I'd want to be sure that I really needed that much pressure to get rid of the events.... *smacks forehead* Ahh! I haven't entirely made the jump from Imperial to Metric pressure units. Yes, a sleep stud...

Thanks for these replies! Actually my pump is a BiPAP. Um, I haven’t found a “BiPAP Talk” forum, so… Anyway, I’m using a leased Puritan Bennett KnightStar 330. I’ve been told this is a more “feature rich” machine than I need now and there’s a (not very interesting) story of how I got it. I have no i...

Aerophagia is swallowing air, and the new, higher pressure settings on my machine result in great trouble drifting off to sleep and being wakened with a stomach ache. For me, the aerophagia is involuntary and doesn't occur when sleeping without my cpap (!). My Sleep Clinic hasn't been much help. I d...