Painful bloating

Christine673 · Post by **Christine673** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:46 am

Hi all. I've been using CPAP for just under 3 weeks. Nasal pillows, chin strap, built in humidifier and automatic pressure. According to the machine read outs everything is working as it should - including mask seal. I DO feel better. Much more energy. But This is the 3rd time that I've woken with PAINFUL bloating. The first time was 6 days ago. I woke with my alarm and was functional just extremely uncomfortable until I succeeded in passing all of the gas. The second time - 5 days ago - I was in debilitating pain. Felt as though I may vomit, curled on the bathroom floor kind of pain. And today, didn't even make it until my alarm went off. Woke 3 hours early feeling as though I may explode- literally. 3am and I'm doing yoga trying desperately to reduce the amount of air in my gi tract.

This is defeating the purpose of my getting sleep. Please help!!!

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 3:40 am

Put "aerophagia" into the forum search bar and you'll see lots and lots of info...

Christine673 · Post by **Christine673** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:01 am

Thank you!

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 10:55 am

Due to routing of our "pipes", I have found that sleeping primarily on the left side helps.
Also standing up and walking, taking a cool sip of water, or mint tea helps as well.
Mine still returns on occasion, and standing up or taking a few stair steps releases the excess "swamp gas".
I try to get out of the bedroom to keep the bullfrog from thinking something may have died.

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