Humidifier = Dry Thoat, No humifier = normal

mattyk6 · Post by **mattyk6** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:43 pm

Background: During the sleep study, I had an average of 104 apneas/hour. I got my CPAP 10 days ago. As of this morning, my Leak rate was 14 and AHI was 3.3 (first night was 64 & 15).

For the first 8 nights, the humidifier was set to 2 and when I woke up each morning, the back of my throat was pretty dry.

The last two nights, my humidifier was accidentally turned off. But I noticed that my throat wasn't nearly as dry.

Any ideas why or is this normal?

TIA,
Matt

roster · Post by **roster** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:08 am

Did you have water in the humidifier for the first eight nights?

blarg · Post by **blarg** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:10 am

Either you're having mouth breathing issues that are entirely unrelated to humidifier settings, or you like passover humidification. Either way, do whatever works.

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:12 pm

Sounds like mouthbreathing issues, I like mine as passover, but I don't have a mouthbreathing issue. That's where the softwate is handy, you can tell what's going on, numbers on the unit don't tell you when a problem happens. Jim