by Pugsy on Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:14 pm summer wrote: As you drift of to sleep do you gently allow air into you mouth to equalize pressure, or do you do the tongue thing at the back of the throat and keep the air out of the mouth completely? No, I don't allow air into my mouth at all. The pressurized ...

Thank you for the validation summer, now I can go off to work not having to wonder too much if I am just hoping it was the Naproxen, 6 years is a long long time to spend in the OUTER LIMITS, now I'm hoping to enter the TWILIGHT ZONE!!!

Well done!!!!

Hi I took Naproxen, it will make you spaced out the following day, its an anti inflammatory and muscle relaxant (so my doc tells me). I titrated the dose to find the right amount that does the job, initially my doc just gave the max dose and I was comatosed all day Stopped the pain from frozen shoul...

Top teeth do not hurt at all and I too sleep on my side only with no problems. My leaks are very low and are only from the nose pillows. There is a very informative thread about fitting the hybrid by Roster, take a look at it. Also there is a video you can look at go to cpap.com and follow the link...

Pugsy on Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:31 pm You call it blowfish effect....we call it chipmunk cheeks. I think we are likely talking about same thing. Lips are closed...air entering the nasal passage proceeds down the airway and the tongue has relaxed its vigil at the back of the mouth...allowing air pressur...

by nanwilson on Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:17 pm If you can't keep your mouth closed then go to a full face mask. I tried all the tricks and methods, nothing worked, so I now use a Respcare Hybrid ----- nose pillows and a mouth only piece. Less invasive than the other full masks, go to cpap.com and take a ...

I'm working on the keeping my mouth closed issue also, especially during sleep. I'm mostly a nose breather but occasionally my mouth does come open during sleep. At first I used the nasal prongs but couldn't keep my mouth closed with a chin strap. After trying a couple of full masks, I'm back to th...

Hi All, I have been trialing a couple of nasal masks, F&P opti360 and sleepweaver, my current mask is a F&P flexifit H431 FFM. My problem is mouth breathing, I have gleaned and tried several methods of reducing these occurrences but have not had success. I also have noticed that I am more tense with...

Yes I understand I think its worth giving the nasal pillow mask a whirl, hey it might even allow me to have a lower pressure!. I do catch my self breathing through my nose during the day, although I am prone to nasal congestion particularly at night, but I do try consciously to breath through my nos...

Hi Pugsy, thank you your reply its good to hear from you. Totally agree with your analysis, I think by narrowing the range that this willl help reduce my arousals, I also seem to be hypoventating a bit after some of the larger flow limitations. I have already lowered the max pressure by 0.2 to 11.4 ...

Aha! I now have access, tried several times yesterday to post, it looks like cpaptalk servers were down? Thank you Robysue for your reply, you have made some very valid points, I'm gooin too fast!, i'm one of those people who likes to get things nailed!. But realise that I need to slow up abit, I do...

Hi from Oxford England. I have not posted for while, I still having problems with centrals and fluctuating AHI and need help, I have posted below sleepyhead graphs it would be great if you could see any trends or anything that stands out. Background Well the last time I posted I go some really good ...

Hi JohnBFisher, Thanks for your reply, I did show a number of centrals during my sleep study, but my impression is that OSA can result in hyperventilation, which is what I get after such events this tends to then result in some CSA's, the hyperventilation sought of generates disruption like ripples ...

Hi Pugsy, MaxDarKside, Its a fine balancing act!, a few day ago I got a 5.4 AHI, central was 3.39, Hyp 1.70, OSA 0.52 all on the same parameters as last night (min 7.6, max 9.4), although I had more leaks!!!. The machine seems to want to go higher, I do feel that I need to up the max, the reason is ...

Hi Pugsy, I think you are right, some of them are transitional/awake,but it just seems an awful lot of centrals from 4.00 am onwards and I did not feel good when I got up. I felt very light headed with a mild headache, I suspect I had low s02 for part of that period, tonight I will up the min to 8.0...