Thanks for the replies. I have a history of GERD. I had Nissen Fundoplication surgery a year ago that cured it, at least for now. But it means that gas in my stomach is more painful than it was before. My husband sleeps on my left, and doesn't like the air blowing on him from the exhalation vents, s...

I drooled a lot when I started with mine, but it went away after a while. I use a full face mask. You might try a different mask. As for waking up after 2-3 hours, is your machine set to a range of pressures (APAP), or a single pressure (CPAP)? Mine was on APAP at first, and it woke me up when it au...

Did your doctor prescribe CPAP or order a CPAP titration study? If so, give it a try. If it improves your symptoms, that's what really matters.

I swallow air every night while on CPAP. A lot of air. I wake up painfully bloated each morning. It all makes its way out...eventually...in the usual way. But it's not fun, and I'd like to avoid it if possible.

Any ideas?

OK, so I set my machine to CPAP mode at pressure 10.0. I have been feeling some tightness in my chest lately, so along with that change I increased the Exhalation Relief to MED (it was LOW). I rubbed my nose all over vigorously before I put the mask on, as tan suggested. For the first time ever, I m...

I had a sleep study done earlier this year that showed the pressure was not enough, as I suspected. It took me almost a year to get another sleep study to get the pressure changed and I had to change doctors too. So at least I am staying awake during the day now! By "another sleep study", do you me...

Hi, Denise! I'm sorry to hear about your migraines. And I really hear you. I get migraines, too, and I often wake up with them. One important thing to know about migraine is that every migraine patient presents differently, so what works to help one person may not help you, and what triggers migrain...

I'm about 3 months in and I still wake quite frequently. My big mistake has been to pull off the mask for comfort and then I fall right back to sleep without it. I'm trying to get out of bed and then mask up again. I get itchy nose sometimes. I'll pull the mask off, give everything a vigorous rub a...

Are you using it during the day while either watching tv or playing a computer game? If not try it out to desensitize your body mind. No, but I don't do those sorts of sitting down things when I'm at home very much. I'm sitting at a desk all day at work, so when I'm home, I avoid it. And I really d...

How was your sleep quality pre cpap? Did you wake often? If you did then it is not impossible that perhaps the wake ups are "habit" wake ups. They may or may not have been related to the UARS thing. Remember people have crappy sleep who don't have UARS or OSA. I woke up all night long. I only remem...

I appreciate the suggestion, but honestly, I am so tired of seeing doctors. And paying to talk to them, when I can be almost certain they won't have anything useful to tell me. Most often I'm more on top of my own treatment than they are. On the topic of getting used to the CPAP, though, have any of...

No, I'm not on, and haven't recently taken, any medications. And the itchiness is not just inside, it's random, anywhere, like a minor skin irritation kind of itch, the sort you don't even notice normally, because you automatically reach and scratch and it's gone. But with the mask on my face, I can...

I have been using CPAP now for about a week and a half. My first mask leaked, and I switched to another one that is much more comfortable and stays on without leaking. I have no problem falling asleep with CPAP, but I can't seem to stay asleep. I wake up every 1-2 hours, for no reason that I can dis...

Congratulations on the success of your therapy!!

I'll try cutting a homemade liner out of some cotton flannel to try using tonight. It's free, and it can't hurt. A knit works best because it stretches into those odd shapes. I used an old pair of cotton "big girl" panties. Polar fleece works too. Cut any holes smaller then needed and adjust - fabr...