Is it safe?

[pabneypaol]

I have just recently been diagnosed with apnea. In fact I am still waiting on the results of my titrition study.
Hopefully I will be getting a machine soon. So my question is this:

My wife said she wanted to try the machine and mask to better know what I am going through using this equipment.
Is this safe to do?
Is there anything I need to be aware of before letting her do this?

Thanks in advance
We have learned alot reading the forum,
and I am sure it is going to help me adjust.

[Wulfman]

Here's a recent thread concerning a slightly different situation:

viewtopic/t32536/OK-I-need-the-experts- ... s-one.html

Without knowing what machine you have or the pressure setting, it's a little hard to give a definite answer. Lower pressure settings for her (probably less than 10 cm) would probably be safe......particularly if she wants to actually try sleeping with it. Just to strap it on and start it up.....probably not......it's just air.


Den

[DreamStalker]

Just be careful you don't blow her up ... she might float away and land on somebody elses lap

[6PtStar]

I don't see how it could hurt. My doctor got one and tried it because I was his first sleep apnea patient and he said he wanted to find out what I was going through. I would not run the pressure above 10 cm/h2o. My wife tried mine on for a short time and told me she was glad it was me and not her.

I am not a doctor so this is only my opinion.

Jerry

[roster]

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My wife said she wanted to try the machine and mask to better know what I am going through using this equipment.
Is this safe to do?
Is there anything I need to be aware of before letting her do this?

.....

One thing you need to be aware of is your wife's exact motives.

If my wife wanted to try this her motives would be to say it's easy and comfortable so quit your damn complaining and get the chores done!

[bdp522]

My husband thought strapping a mask to your face each night was easy...until I hooked him up to it! He is now amazed that I do this every night all night. He was awake while he had it on and he didn't keep it on very long, but it was long enough for him to get the idea.

Brenda

[wlo2008]

Mine put mine for a second and that was it and said no way will he do this. I think he does have apneas. He will snore and then I hear nothing and then snore again. But I can't be to sure. If I turn on the lights to watch him he wakes up. I think he should still talk to our doc about it. But for the moment he has a bad additude about the machine.

But just trying it on to see I think should be ok. Inless she is wanting to sleep with it on. If she doesn't have apnea I would not take the chance sense you have no idea what the pressure will be set at and if you will have just a Cpap machine or something with Cflex on it to lower the pressure as you breath out.

But I am not a doc, so don't take my word for it. )

But I don't think there is any harm turning it on and blowing some air up her nose. Its not like airing a tire up and she will explode or anything from high pressure. LOL

[shortbus]

During my titration study they had me hooked up to a Cpap at first and that induced central apneas. What's to say it doesn't induce centrals to your wife? But if she is just trying it on while awake I see no problem with it.

[Julie]

Your wife won't get central apnea from an 'awake' trial of Cpap no matter what setting you use! Everyone registers a few centrals in their overnight (and asleep) studies in the lab, but it doesn't mean they 'have' central apnea as such. That would only happen if someone were routinely hooked up (asleep) to a machine at a pressure much higher than prescribed and were prone to centrals to begin with.