Trouble Breathing in the Morning

Anybody ever feel short of breath in the morning? It seems to be worse after I have a good night where I keep my mask on all night long. It is worse when i first wake up and slowly gets better as the day goes on but sometimes lasts into the evening. This has never happened before CPAP and does not happen on nights when I fall asleep without putting my mask on. It almost feels like I can get all my breath out. Its kind of hard to explain but is definitely bothersome and related to the CPAP, just wondering if anybody has experienced anything similar.

Yes, but if I take only 1/4 of a Claritin (try breaking those up!) to avoid the sleepy feeling it gives me, it helps quickly. I would like to know what it's about, doesn't only happen in the a.m. (depends on what seem to be random variables), but haven't been able to pin anything down.

I am curious to see who else is experiencing this. My problems just started recently. I feel as if I can't get a full breath of air too! With myself I was thinking it was my anxiety kicking in. With Panic Disorder <some> people have breathing issues because we tend to shallow breathe. I feel like that is how I am breathing ALL of the time now. Just feels weird and different. I know cpap has made me more focused on my breathing, which when you have panic disorder can be blown up to extremes.
I am glad to see I am not the only one with this problem. I do notice if I am busy and not idle brained (HUSH GUMBO!) I don't seem to have it as much. Hope someone out here can help us out here!
Susan

I feel short winded also in the morning's as the day progresses it does get better.maybe it takes a while before our lungs get use to being back to normal breathing.I have also felt almost hung over some mornings. I have yet to get that boost of energy I have heard so much about. I am new to Cpap have been learning sense June 24, 2010. My Doctor told me I need more sleep. I average around six hours a night my ahi never goes over 1.1 usually under 1.

Could be GERD, or insufficient humidification (or too much). Check also that your filters are all clean.

Large leaks at night could also make the therapy not work, and could leave you fighting for air.

I have this, too, and always have since starting CPAP over three years ago. I do have anxiety and panic attacks at times totally unrelated to cpap therapy, so when I get the breathing issues that come on out of the blue in the middle of the day, that's what it always is (I've been checked by a physician over this and that's what I'm always told). When I first started therapy at a pressure of 9, I complained to my sleep doc about the short-of-breath feeling each morning. He suggested I bump the pressure down to 8 and see if that helped, but I honestly can't remember why he said that might help, although it did. But I settled on 8-1/2 because I liked the AHI numbers better at 8-1/2.

I, too, wonder if for some of us it just takes a while for our bodies to adjust to not having the cpap pressure. Or maybe we're shallow breathing while asleep and building up too much CO2? (Just a totally uneducated guess.) I know if I lay in bed a while in the morning without cpap and then get up, it seems not be as bothersome.

Sometimes I'll have it for days in a row having it all day long. I'll actual wake up with it very minor like normal, then it goes away, and I notice it coming back much worse later in the day. Due to many trips to the ER and Patient First for this, anxiety and depression are the culprits. I hate the feeling. It makes me concentrate on my breathing, which then makes it worse, which then can send me into a panic feeling, which makes the short-of-breath feeling worse, and it just spirals! Argh!!!

Oh, I have found the exercising makes it better, too.

i have also experienced this and have long been puzzled by it. for me, i think what happens is cpap pressure fills my stomach with air and the pressure in my stomach pushes stomach fluid into my esophagus. i take acifex for gerd so i don't always feel a burn. sometimes when i wake up in the night short of breath i find that once i burp out the gas, i feel much better. i believe that our diaphram and esophagus are very sensitive and filled with many nerve endings that become affected by gerd. i know that my shortness of breath is only a sensation as my pulse can be very normal when it occurs.

Count me in as well. I've just been putting it down to my breathing getting "lazy" overnight since the machine does it for me.

I do find that I feel like I need to "work" to take a deep breath when I get up - which wasn't the case back in those dark - pre CPAP days.

I don't think it's my filters because my S9 is less than a month old.

Has anyone found an answer to this problem? I have been having near-anxiety attacks b/c of this awful feeling! It lasts all day for me after sleeping with my CPAP and it's a scary feeling! I've been on CPAP for two weeks now, and the last 3-4 days this has become annoying as heck!

I am hoping that it will go away once I get used to breathing with the machine- My doctor told me it is called "something - hysteria" basically that it's in my head... But it's awful and it actually feels better if I stop breathing!

Anyone figured it out?

Thanks, I know I am such a newbie and freaking out!

I seriously think you need a new doctor, one who knows about OSA, and who doesn't give antiquated appalling and insulting answers to questions because he is ignorant. Get referred to a pulmonologist and let us know what they say.

I cant breth and my BP gets higher in the morning when using CPAP. I see all these comments but no solutions. Any doctors have real help?

At night before I go to bed I have to load my updraft machine. It has to be ready for the minute that I wake up in the mornings because the asthma/copd (??) is so awful. I do not have time to put medicine in because the attack is often very bad so it has to be done at night before sleep. This has been going on for about a year. Normally I only have problems with the asthma during spring or allergy triggered by perfumes, colognes, things of that nature. Now it's all the time when I wake up. My doc has no clue what is making it happen. Once I do my updraft then I am back to normal and it doesn't do it if I take a nap, only with a long sleep.

I'm curious about this as well. This has happened to me three times in the last month. Always in the morning, always when I'm trying to talk. . .can't seem get enough air to finish a sentence sometimes. It's usually after a very good night sleep on CPAP: AHI is usually very low.

add me to the list. i've been having to use my inhaler a lot since starting cpap this year.