Thanks to you guys, I finally tweaked this process and have a very low AHI!!!
Now comes another problem. I sleep seemingly deep for 3 to 4 hours and then I wake up with a lot of gas - stomach and intestinal.
It is so bad I hardly sleep the rest of the night. As a result I am constantly fatigued at work and totally worthless to my family in the evenings.
I am using an A-Flex and have tried different A-Flex settings and C-Flex settings with no relief.
Is there any another route I should take? Maybe Bipap? If so which model?
I will call the sleep doc also.
(Notice I got through this without cursing. Maybe it is the additional O2 in my brain.)
Gas buildup causing insomnia
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Yer on the right track by calling your doctor. That air swallowing is called aerophagia. Bi-levels do often help w/that from what I've read, but it "could" also POSSIBLY be alleviated w/a lower pressure setting. I've been fortunate not to have experienced much of this. (knock, Knock, KNOCK!)
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Try bed lifters (aka "bed lifts" aka "bed risers").
WillMack, my BF is a new CPAP user who also has problems with so-called air swallowing (aerophagia). (It's a misnomer, of course, because he isn't really "swallowing" the air, rather it is being forced into his stomach by the high pressure.)
When he turned up the pressure, AHI went down, but he blew up like a balloon. When the pressure was low enough not to pump him full of air, AHI got too high.
One thing that has helped significantly is we put the head of the bed up on 6-inch risers (like these http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product ... U=12106769 ) -or Google for "bed lifts" or "bed risers". They come in sets of 4, but you only use 2.
We didn't expect it to make any difference but surprisingly, it did. I don't exactly understand why (yet), but raising the head of the bed seems to affect the anatomy just enough and BF reports air swallowing is much reduced. Not 100%, but he can usually sleep through the night now, whereas before, he was up frequently due to the bloating.
Raising the bed head is also helping reduce reflux (we both have that). Acid reflux itself can weaken the valve that keeps the air out, so it's good for that too.
On these 6 inch risers, the slope is gentle enough that we don't "feel" it while sleeping and the bed doesn't look weird. I'd like to find slightly higher risers (like these maybe http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product. ... 3109469441 ) but there must be some limit before we start sliding off the bed!
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WillMack, my BF is a new CPAP user who also has problems with so-called air swallowing (aerophagia). (It's a misnomer, of course, because he isn't really "swallowing" the air, rather it is being forced into his stomach by the high pressure.)
When he turned up the pressure, AHI went down, but he blew up like a balloon. When the pressure was low enough not to pump him full of air, AHI got too high.
One thing that has helped significantly is we put the head of the bed up on 6-inch risers (like these http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product ... U=12106769 ) -or Google for "bed lifts" or "bed risers". They come in sets of 4, but you only use 2.
We didn't expect it to make any difference but surprisingly, it did. I don't exactly understand why (yet), but raising the head of the bed seems to affect the anatomy just enough and BF reports air swallowing is much reduced. Not 100%, but he can usually sleep through the night now, whereas before, he was up frequently due to the bloating.
Raising the bed head is also helping reduce reflux (we both have that). Acid reflux itself can weaken the valve that keeps the air out, so it's good for that too.
On these 6 inch risers, the slope is gentle enough that we don't "feel" it while sleeping and the bed doesn't look weird. I'd like to find slightly higher risers (like these maybe http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product. ... 3109469441 ) but there must be some limit before we start sliding off the bed!
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