Lung (chest) pain and burning

meister · Post by **meister** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:02 pm

Has anyone experienced pain in the morning in the lungs after
beginning PAP? My lungs feel like they have been stretched out
like tanning a deer skin, and feel like they have been burned (from
pushing all that air down there). Yes, I have ResMed 2i humidifier
which is extremely wimpy. My typical DME said put less water in it
and it will work better. Since I am a mouth breather and the thing
is empty in the morning, I just figure with less water I will wake up
sooner with CottonMouth and Sahara lungs.

jdschooler · Post by **jdschooler** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:58 pm

make sure you are using distilled water that is fresh every night. Heated water is really good at growing bacteria and fungus if it is not changed daily.

chrisp · Post by **chrisp** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:02 pm

Yes, when I had a straight pressure cpap . Burning belching farting.Got auto and it went away.
Other time was after surgery, from the anesthesia and pressure.

Chris

LarryJ · Post by **LarryJ** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:19 pm

chrisp wrote:Yes, when I had a straight pressure cpap . Burning belching farting.Got auto and it went away.Chris

This explains alot. Man, I gotta get an auto pap.

Liam1965 · Post by **Liam1965** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:49 am

chrisp wrote:Yes, when I had a straight pressure cpap . Burning belching farting.Got auto and it went away.
Other time was after surgery, from the anesthesia and pressure.

I'm guessing for those of us for whom "burning, belching and farting" way predated CPAP, we can't expect it to go away under autopap, eh?

Liam, whose lawyers are Solomon, Smith, Burning, Belching and Farting.

snoozin' · Post by **snoozin'** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:08 am

Actually, Liam, some of that might have been caused by undiagnosed and untreated OSA. You still might see some improvement after PAP.
Debbie

derek · Post by **derek** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:21 am

In my thread "Can APAP eliminate apneas?" I mentioned that on CPAP at 12cm I wake each morning feeling physically tired (not sleepy) and short of breath as though I had just run a couple of miles. It feels as if my lungs have worked real hard all night against the pressure. It takes until about 10:00 am to feel normal.

-SWS replied:

...that sounds like the same dyspnea I was experiencing on CPAP at only 10 cm. I experience it much less on AutoPAP. My primary physician speculated that my alveoli were actually overinflating and stretching a bit, leaving me with slight "COPD-like" dyspnea. In one way, shape, or form the body has to somehow resolve that fixed pressure when it's not being used to correct an apnea...

I'm hoping that my new APAP will give me the same relief. UPS says it will arrive tomorrow (I'm going to take it with me and play with it on our Valentines weekend get-away. That's going to make someone very "happy")

wading thru the muck! · Post by **wading thru the muck!** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:04 am

Derek,

Just tell your "Valentine" that if she gives you the high sign you'll take your mask off.

My wife gives me the same grief...I can empathize with her though, with five kids we can't afford many missed opportunities.

chrisp · Post by **chrisp** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:43 pm

Wader, With five kids I'd say you didn't miss many opportunities.

I know, Emoticon abuse. But I couldn't resist

What was that sign again. Could she teach it to my wife.

wading thru the muck! · Post by **wading thru the muck!** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:26 pm

Chris,

Four pregnancies in eleven years (one was twins). That calcutates to one "opportunity" every 33 months! You must have low expections if you think that kind of frequency calls for the 92 emoticon salute.

Liam1965 · Post by **Liam1965** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:41 pm

wading thru the muck! wrote:Four pregnancies in eleven years (one was twins). That calcutates to one "opportunity" every 33 months! You must have low expections if you think that kind of frequency calls for the 92 emoticon salute.

Yeah, between us, my wife and I have 4 pregnancies over 6 and a half years, but all four happened before we met each other... So it looks good on paper, but ...

Now, since learning that Wading has 5, we're trying to create that all important tie that'll take us into overtime. (Well, that, and we're both egotistical enough to think the world can't have enough of our particular toothless gene pools).

However, I'm not sure how this relates to the topic at hand, except that while in the process of trying to make said baby, I've never found I had any trouble breathing, so clearly babies cure apnea.

Or something.

Liam, who probably should look up the definition of "TMI".

wading thru the muck! · Post by **wading thru the muck!** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:54 pm

Liam said:
Now, since learning that Wading has 5, we're trying to create that all important tie that'll take us into overtime.

Now we know the truth! You led us to believe you were up all night cause you couldn't tolerate the cpap.

chrisp · Post by **chrisp** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:25 pm

Whats the sign ? Can she teach it to my wife...Right now I have 0 (zero) expectations.

wading thru the muck! · Post by **wading thru the muck!** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:45 pm

Chris,

I told you, I have 5 kids, my "sign" expired a long time ago. All I can hope for is the rare occasion when the kids have passed out from exhaustion and my wife and I have not. Our kids are ages 4 to 17 and we are in our 40s. What do you think the chance of this happening is? Probably why we don't have a sixth.

chrisp · Post by **chrisp** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:09 pm

You could always "accidently" put the locks on backwards on their doors so they lock from the outside.

Chris

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