So I've now been fighting with the last in the series of xpap machines I've had over the last couple years, and have yet to successfully sleep much at all with the machine on, even trying for several weeks at a shot. Just typically cannot fall asleep with the mask on - until recently. I finally mana...

DSM - I hear you. This doc I just saw, he hasn't had me titrated or done a study himself yet... i'd previously seen two other docs, and the settings on my machine were from the previous doc. My understanding is that they have increased the overall pressure (as per the #'s I can see in the machine no...

Indeed, I have recently seen my sleep doc, been trying to successfully use xpap for a long time now (over a year). My apnea is considered 'mild to moderate', so doc is recommending I might try a dental appliance, but as I keep feeling worse and worse, and everyone says that xPap beats the dental app...

thx Az. Yeah that's true. Except that I hate having to breathe through my mouth if I don't have to. Now, tho, I don't have any machine anymore since they took it back. Hrm.

Heh. Thyroid's totally under control. I've had Hashimoto's for years; recently tried adding t3 to my t4. Unsure it's made any difference, but this stomach thing started a year ago. I've pondered whether Naturethroid or something like that might make a difference, but haven't tried that yet.

Thanks slink & Rested Gal. So listen to this.... I go to talk to my sleep doc again today, and explain all the crap that I've been going through, not just with the cpap pressure-relieving but with weird stomach issues that may or may not be some kind of silent reflux, which I think is getting worse....

Thanks for all your answers! I almost managed to fall asleep wearing it for the first time last night, but yeah, same problem with the exhaled air building up in my mouth wanting to leak out. Plus I noticed I seemed to be getting a headache this time.... might that be a humidification issue? I will ...

I know it. The medication merry go round is no fun; I'm just wondering whether there's some sort of magic step I'm missing here and i feel like i'm running out of options before I'm just sitting staring into space all day. Many folks on this board speak very highly of the results they've had with cp...

Since posting here a few months ago, uncertain about treating what seemed to be rem-only hypopneas, I went back to my doc to replace my cpap machine for one with the C-flex. It is true - as I told him - that we still don't have much data on the success of the C-Flex machine. That's because I have be...

Hey cpap-ers. Short version: is 3 really the 'max' amount of exhalation pressure 'relief' i can get out of the m-plus series w/ cflex unit? I feel like I want it to reduce pressure even more than it does now. ? thx, J! Longer version: I posted here a few weeks ago as a super-newbie (now I'm just a n...

black - i will. Rooster - Thanks. Yes, I agree. I have seen probably 30-40 docs in the last 6 months, but nobody's really been able to agree on anything besides the fact that yes, my stomach annoys me, they can see it, and that I'm pretty damn depressed. I have been attempting psychiatric assistance...

My son is a well educated and respected MD, Board Certified in Internal Medicine for almost 20yrs, with a Ph.D in Integrative Medicine and he readily admits that he is out of his league in the diagnosis or treatment of OSA. This is a very specialized field which,sad to say,is still in it's infancy....

Just want to say, did the titration yesterday... was not particularly pleasant. I think I slept a grand total of 2 hours of the 8, then went home and crashed for a few more. I reckon figuring that stuff out, mask size, etc is a challenge. However, I saw another doc today, unrelated, an MD who works ...

I had the very same stomach symptoms as you and the GP finally turned it over to a Gastroenterologist, they did a scope of my stomach and found the linning extremely irritated, he took a culture and found it to be a bacterial infection called Helicobacter pylori or h.pylori for short. I then underw...

Ok I'll go for titration. Are there people who appear to need CPAP though, that are just not helped by it (assuming they give it a good chance)? In those cases, is it because they have something that is just too severe? Or, alternately (as I've been sort of suggesting) that the problem is not severe...