Cpap w/o humidifier and sinus infection

I used the apap and developed a bad sinus infection. I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this problem. I've been reading and found that a lot of you have had stuffy noses, colds, and coughs. I cannot sleep right without my cpap but found that the one without the humidifier may cause some of these problems. Thanks for responding to my first question. I appreciate it.

It just seems to me that we all have to make the adjustment that fits our particular need. I've had chronic sinus infections for years. And starting CPAP therapy didn't help one little bit either. Anyway, at the present it is manageable, and for me, the trick was to use the humidifier without heat or what is called, in passover mode. When you get over this infection, keep tweaking your humidity settings until you find that you can breathe easily. And of course, there are the nasal washes and the cortisone sprays. The nasal washes never seemed to help me one bit, but presently, my cortisone spray is doing enough of a job to keep me breathing at night. I can feel your frustration, but I want you to know that most of us who have battled with this have eventually found a course of action that helped. It just about panics me to sleep without my machine and the only nights that this has happened were the ones when sinus infections made it too difficult to breathe.
You'll probably get some more answers that will be more helpful.

If you're new to CPAP, I believe respiratory related infections are not uncommon at first. I had a lung infection for 2-3 days. But after that initial period, things were more or less normal.

It was not clear to me whether you were using a humidifier and had these symptoms or were trying to go without one. If you don't have one, get one ASAP.

Even with a humidifier I found that with the cold winter air is too dry and the CPAP humidifier not enough. I can only turn up the humidifier so high and the warm air wakes me. I think this is more or less peculiar to me.

Anyway to help get more humidity without more heat, I bought a room humidifier to pre-humidify the room air before it goes through the CPAP and its humidifier. Seems to be working out well so far in offsetting the dry air of the winter.

I have been on a APAP for almost a year and normally had three or four colds that always turned into 10 extra days of sinus infections a years. Since starting APAP therapy I just got my first cold and it only lasted two days and I only have a minor sinus infection compared to what I normally use to have.

About a month a go I turned my APAP humidifier w/ heat way down to the lowest setting since I experienced my first rainout.

Now that I have this sinus infection, I have turned the humidity settings back up high since in the past the antihistamine medicine would dry out my sinus and cause the infections according to my doctor. I not sure if this is right or wrong but I feel that the extra humidly has helped me avoid a major 10 day long sinus infections by keeping my sinus from drying out. Again this is an opinion but I think the extra humidity helps prevent sinus infections after taking antihistamine that dry out your sinus and prevents infections.

im in the same boat... it seems like humidifiers, whether on my machine or in the room always seems to give me and my family sinus infections... im not sure if im blaming the humidifier when something else is the problem, or if it truly is the humidifier thats causing it... i havent found anything online to support the claim that humidifiers cause infections tho...