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by savemefrombhindi » Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:46 am
Hi
It has been a while since I last posted here. I have been now on CPAP [ResMed Auto Sense 10 with Full Face Mask] for more than a year and my life has dramatically improved ever since, especially with respect to the brain fog, cognitive decline and fatigue that I had developed by the time I began with CPAP.
However, there seems to be a slight regression in the recent weeks. Because of sleeping on the side for more than a year, I have developed sore shoulders, very painful biceps. I am autistic and have always been sensitive to pain and struggled with back and neck pain.
First I tried sleeping on the left side which was much better, and then, began sleeping on the right. Now, both shoulders and the upper arms have become very sore, and I can barely manage more than 4-5 minutes of sleeping on the side.
I have begun to sleep in a supine position and even when I start on my side, within minutes, I am back in a supine position. Now, after close to three weeks of sleeping in a supine position, I can see a clear trend
a) AHI is pretty much the same but what is surprising is that the extent of Clear Air Apnea [on OSCAR] has marginally gone up.
b) I get this feeling of something in my throat when I lay down on the bed in a supine position and it is taking me more time to fall asleep after getting on the bed]
c) While apart from one night when I woke up feeling being choked, I have not had the same degree of difficulty in sleeping or breathing that I had developed before I moved to CPAP.
d) I am waking up with the kind of dry mouth and a mild headache that I used to have earlier and daytime sleepiness has also gone up, albeit it is not as bad as it used to be.
e) Average Pressure has gone up from mid 12 cmH2O to mid 14. In fact, on most nights, OSCAR shows that I am hitting the max pressure of 15 cm quite frequently. As you can see from the OSCAR images for the last two nights, the pressure is hovering close to 15.
I need advice on few points
a) Are there ways in which we can avoid shoulder and bicep pain while sleeping on the sides
b) Is it likely that because the pressure is higher than earlier that my throat and mouth is getting dry and I am waking up earlier than usual.
or
c) is it more likely that maximum pressure of 15 is not adequate, and therefore, I need to have higher pressure since I seem to be touching the maximum pressure mark much more frequently now?
I would be very grateful for any suggestion that you may have.
thanks
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ResMed Autosense 10; AirfitF20 and N20