Questions on humidity and bathroom trips. Help me out here.

dieselgal · Post by **dieselgal** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:12 pm

The humidity was very high yesterday here and when I went to bed I still had my humidity set pretty high on my machine. I ended up waking up a couple of hours after I went to sleep with a funny feeling in my throat (kind of heavyness) and thought i needed more humidity. I went to the bathroom turned the humidity up a notch and the feeling got worse! Then I got to thinking maybe the funny feeling was to much humidity and not to little. I cranked the humidity level down and sure enough that helped that problem. So one observation from me is that too much humidity for me bothers me as much as not enough and I don't mean to the point of getting a wet face.
SECONDLY, last night I ended up getting up to go to the bathroom 4 times! The only thing I can tie that to is the humidity level. Does that make any sense at all???

sleepycarol · Post by **sleepycarol** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:18 pm

I know that too much humidity bothers me. I have asthma and when there is high humidity in the air I have more problems breathing. I can not tolerate a hot shower with lots of steam as that will trigger an attack for me. You maybe one of those that high humidity is going to bother you.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:22 pm

Me three! 2 is about the highest I can stand.

Cheers,
Babs

JeffH · Post by **JeffH** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:54 pm

Anonymous wrote:Me three! 2 is about the highest I can stand.

Cheers,
Babs

Add another to the list.

After getting my heated hose, I tried a setting of 2 instead of the 1 I had been using. Worked fine and didn't have any rainout, so last nite I tried 3. The air felt "thick" for lack of a better term, and I wasn't as comfortable, so back down to 2 it went. Slept OK the rest of the night.

BTW, we were having an ice storm, so the humidity was high in the area also.

Perchancetodream · Post by **Perchancetodream** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:05 pm

We live in the desert, and if our room humidifiers ever get the relative humidity up to 30% we turn them off. Anything more than that makes me very uncomfortable.

I rarely turn on my heated humidifier, preferring to use it as a passover humidifier.

Susan

krousseau · Post by **krousseau** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:21 pm

Just some possible connections; normally part of the fluid you lose every day is lost from humidifying the air you breathe-then breathing out the humidified air. If the air you are breathing is humidified already you may lose less. Other causes are variation in fluid intake and/or salt intake, alcohol, hormonal shifts, drugs. eating or drinking something with a diuretic action. How were your apneas the night of increased urinary output? High AHI can cause increased urinary output.

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