Well--God bless you all! I appreciate the support VERY MUCH! I have a wedge...will try to put it under my mattress right now...otherwise, I wasn't even going to try the CPAP tonight--not sure I should anyway?? I'm still in so much bloating pain--and it just keeps right at it...and it's been since 5 ...

unclebob - you were serious about creating abdominal pressure to block the intake of air from the CPAP, weren't you?? How do you do it?? If I could fart, I wouldn't be having this problem.... Eating is only making the problem much worse. So far, it's the best diet I've ever seen. Eating makes me sic...

Linda3032 - hope I got that right...what is a CFLEX? I feel like a fish out of water with all of these new terms. My insurance sent me to a DME company, (they were very unhelpful), and they issued me what I was "allowed" to have. Don't know if it is rented or purchased by my insurance? So far, I hav...

What is APAP??

Have a Resprionics REMstar Plus...it's a bare-bones machine. It does have a ramping feature, which is a god-send. But no humidifier, no nothing else! My insurance is a real pain about all of this stuff. It seems like they aren't really treating sleep apnea as a real problem. They are just awful--mak...

Guess I should have asked in my original post: Has ANYONE successfully gotten past the painful abdominal bloating? Why is my body taking so much air in?? Isn't one's stomach supposed to be closed when breathing???

Been on CPAP for 4 nights. Feel like someone has put a tire pump on my body and pumped me full of air. I am absolutely miserable! Hit the Internet, searched for this problem, and sure enough, it's a common problem for CPAP users. No one bothers to tell you all the side effects. Have tried sleeping w...