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by MaluFizzgig
Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:58 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Hey I finally got a little sleep! If only I could keep from taking my mask off...
Replies: 3
Views: 481

Hey I finally got a little sleep! If only I could keep from taking my mask off...

Pursuant to the advice of the group in my last post, I raised my pressure settings on my airsense10 from the 4-20 to 7-20, turned the EPR on and set it to 3. The DME tech/RT did something to my ramp settings, but I'm not sure what was changed. I may have turned ramp off. Anyhow, with the higher pres...
by MaluFizzgig
Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:22 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: CPAP water tank hacks
Replies: 24
Views: 4151

Re: CPAP water tank hacks

ChicagoGranny wrote:
Sat Mar 07, 2020 11:38 am
Is anyone else old enough to remember when "void" was a polite word for "urinate"?
I thought it was also for pooping.
by MaluFizzgig
Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:57 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: I need some help getting started. SIBO/Sinus driven apneas, CPAP makes me feel like I'm suffocating.
Replies: 7
Views: 963

Re: I need some help getting started. SIBO/Sinus driven apneas, CPAP makes me feel like I'm suffocating.

Thank you so much for the input. Even with min pressure set to seven and EPR to 3 I feel like I can't exhale completely or freely enough and start to get panicky. Now the mask feels like it's trying to push itself off of my face or blow my cheeks up like a balloon. This feels super weird! Is there a...
by MaluFizzgig
Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:20 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: I need some help getting started. SIBO/Sinus driven apneas, CPAP makes me feel like I'm suffocating.
Replies: 7
Views: 963

Re: I need some help getting started. SIBO/Sinus driven apneas, CPAP makes me feel like I'm suffocating.

And fwiw, even with the CPAP off, breathing through the mask is too restrictive for me. The holes in the holes to exhale through are like breathing through a coffee straw. I've got big strong lung capacity and even slow meditation breath I feel my breathing is very restricted even without the machin...
by MaluFizzgig
Sun Feb 23, 2020 7:45 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: I need some help getting started. SIBO/Sinus driven apneas, CPAP makes me feel like I'm suffocating.
Replies: 7
Views: 963

I need some help getting started. SIBO/Sinus driven apneas, CPAP makes me feel like I'm suffocating.

Hi I'm Christopher! I'm new here... So I've been working with my Osteopath, my functional medicine practitioner, nutritionist, GP/DO, and nutritionist because I have a very complex set of interconnected health conditions contributing to poor sleep and chronic pain/inflammation/anxiety. Basically I h...