My Humidifier is using alot of water & my back & Lun

About 3 times now, my heated humidifier is using alot of water, sometimes, all but 1/4 of a tank is all that will be left and I fill it to the line . My back or lungs hurt when I get up ( for a long time) and it's freaking me out... I use the snugglehose cover so I don't get the rainout thing, is the water is ending up in my lungs or evaporating, or what? ... I have my humidifier set on 2 and I read a post to try it on 5 and so I did and even with the snugglehose cover, I almost drowned there was so much water in my hose all night so, I lowered it back down to 2 and there in no rainout thing going on when this happens but, I still on occasion use almost a whole tank of water and my lungs or back hurts real bad for hours after I get up. There is one more embarrasing thing, I will burp & pass gas upon arising sometimes to.. !! Has anyone out there had these things happen to them and if so, how did you correct it? And should I stop using the humidifer for awhile? I am afraid of getting phneumonia because that tank of water is going somewhere and also my nose will run alot and I have severe a dry nose, it never runs! I actually have to use kleenix and alot of it, weird huh? Thanks for your help hoseheads, Sleepy/ShirL

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you need to understand how the humidifier works, when you get TOO much moisture you don't turn it UP to 5 you turn it DOWN.

0 (zero) is off or cold in passover mode, least amount of moisture will be added.
5 (five) is Maximum setting, it will WARM the water so MORE moisture is added.

Higher the setting you use the MORE moisture and water you will use.

If you want to WARM the air get a heated hose.

If you mouth breathe or mouth leak it could cause you to use more water. You can try a FF mask or taping to see if it makes a difference.
For the aerophasia(There is one more embarrasing thing, I will burp & pass gas upon arising sometimes to.. ) Try sleeping in a different position. An Auto machine that allows you to spend much of the night at a lower pressure might help.

Brenda

It's possible that the pain you are experiencing is from the air swallowing, or aerophagia. I had quite a bit of pain and some of it in odd places that I don't associate with regular gas from indigestion. Or at least some of the pain. Try to notice if it's worse on those days that you have more gas.

Also, you have to experiment. For most people cflex or aflex helps them have less gas, but for me using cflex makes it worse. It's an individual thing. Takes some tweaking.

I agree with the others about the humidifier part.

Thank You Snoredog, Rosemary & Brenda, that was very good advice from all of you and I do thank you for it. Have a GREAT NIGHT"S SLEEP