I wake myself up snoring

[Guest]

Hi everyone! I just wanted to post something funny. When I decide to "chuck the mask" I wake myself up SNORING!!! This morning I woke up at 8:30 and decided "ahhh...I'll just take it off and go back to sleep"....HAHA!!! I woke myself up snoring VERY loudly like three times in an hour!!!! HAHA...so yeah, my c-pap is my friend!!!

[kwikwater]

No doubt!!! LOL!!! I've been an ear plug fan for years. Even after I left shift work that required it for day sleeping, I said I slept better. It took a while to understand that I woke up hearing my own snoring! Now, I realize it was probably the snort of an apnea that actually woke me!! YIKES!! We all wonder how long we suffered before finding the answer!. It grieves me that when I tell these stories to other snorers, that they stay in denial (like I did for all too long!)
KW

[dtsm]

The worst is snoring and waking up to it on my daily train commute home each night....when that first happened, I knew it was time to see a sleep doctor

[harry33]

if you are taking the mask off when paprtly asleep this is common for new users, try taping mask to face so the pain will remind you to leave it in place
another common problem is mouth breathing with a nose only mask when asleep, this causes a dry mouth and loss of CPAP benefits

[Mtnviewer]

Also check your body and head position when you are snoring or having apneas. Most of us will snore, snort or have more apneas when on our backs. You might be able to take the mask off IF you can stay sleeping with a side head position, which of course is not easy to control when asleep. But figuring out a way to control your snores and apneas with body position, if that is a factor for you, is for me at least, as much or more influential in a successful night as my CPAP. Plus I get to keep the pressure MUCH lower with a side sleeping position.

Let us know what you find out and how it works for you if you decide to explore a correlation to your snores, and head position? I think that it's something that we don't consider as important enough vs. just raising the pressure, which has it's own sets of drawbacks.

[bell22]

I see, so our position can cause us to snore...I never thought about that since it's randomly happened to me...I mean my snoring I think in my case, it's all about fatigue...If I'm tired or too tired, I usually snore no matter what my position is

[jweeks]

The worst is snoring and waking up to it on my daily train commute home each night....when that first happened, I knew it was time to see a sleep doctor

Hi,

I was way too smart to fall for that. I was in denial for years, and had to wait until it became a crisis in my life where I couldn't work any more. Yeah, that was a great plan.

-john-

[pdean44]

Apparently my snoring was so loud that it could be clearly heard from just about any room in the house from what my wife has told me. For the last 5 weeks before I was able to get my equipment home we were no longer sleeping in the same room.
I never knew I had apnea i just went to the doctor because I wanted to stop the snoring so we could rest peacefully together.

Since the machine no more waking up with a sore throat. We sleep peacefully and restfully together. I prefer not to sleep without the machine even when napping. Once or twice I have fallen back to sleep without it but I try not to let that happen.

[OceanGoingGal]

I cannot imagine sleeping without my machine. Even if I go to lie down in the afternoon and watch my "Soaps" I mask up.
PDean44 Your post brought back memories of hearing my father snoring and then the total silence and the sudden snort. We kids could hear that from our rooms. I remember thinkng breathe Dad, please! I was terrified. He had apnea too but then (in the 60's) it was not recognised as an illness. He died at the age of 65 frm a heart attack. I often wonder now if he would have been with us longer had the illness been recognised and treated.

Laura