Newbie - Waking up once every night

[CoachSchills]

I am very new here and to my cpap machine. Overall, the results have been rather good in the first 4 days. However, I have "bathroom break" every night, generally 3 hours into the sleep session. Before the cpap, I was up 3-5 times a night, using the bathroom break as a way to "reset" and hopefully fall asleep. Anyways, using the ramp up feature, which they set at 25 minutes, I find it hard to fall back asleep after getting up. In addition, my head is a little fuzzy during that time and it too takes time to reset myself and fall back asleep. So in a 8 hour sleep session, I am awake for 25-45 minutes.

I figure the bathroom break is going to just be a natural part of aging and my occupation. I coach sports and in this case football, so I am re-hydrating in the evenings (still 90 degrees most days) and then needing to eliminate the excess at night. Any suggestions on how to resume sleep and is there a way to avoid the ramp up without changing the settings in the middle of the night?

[palerider]

have you tried turning off ramp and seeing if you can get to sleep without it in the first place.

second, as a coach, shouldn't you know the importance of *staying* hydrated?

[Julie]

So many of us (majority I think) don't use the ramp at all after a very short trial at the beginning, but while it's important to stay hydrated, maybe there's a way to re-time when and how much you do it and when you use the bathroom... hopefully it will be better when the weather changes.

[bwexler]

You can adjust the ramp to as little as 5 minutes or turn it off.
I think you can also adjust the start pressure for the ramp to be greater than 4 cm.
And, yes you and your team should be hydrating all day, not waiting till evening.

If you are still coaching you can't be that old.

[library lady]

An alternative to turning off the ramp is to shorten the ramp time to 10 minutes. It depends on whether you really need some ramp time, especially now that you've had a chance to get used to the machine and the pressure. Only you can determine that, and you may have to spend a few nights experimenting with various ramp times and turning it off before you know what it is that gets you back to sleep more quickly.

[SleepyEyes21]

Don't turn your machine off when you get up. Just put your mask back on to go back to sleep without having to go thru ramp again.