Anyone ever have this problem?

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Snoozie
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Anyone ever have this problem?

Post by Snoozie » Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:16 am

The other night I decided to increase my humidity so I turned it up to 4 since I am running the furnace now. Anyway, I woke up because the hose blew off where it connects to the tube on my mask (increased pressure from humidity??). So last night I thought I would try it again and although that didn't happen, I found it very difficult to breathe, although the warm air felt nice. So... increased CFlex to 3. Still had trouble breathing, so turned humidifier back to 3 and everything was OK again. I thought increased humidity would make breathing easier? Am I wrong? Seems my original setting is working best, but not sure why.


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Post by Sleepless on LI » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:39 pm

Snoozie,

I am an exception, I believe, but I find it harder to breathe with my hh working, so I don't use it at all. I am starting to find, though, that I may need it as I turned the heat on in the house recently, the air becomes dryer. Summers on Long Island are very humid, so I may have to pull it out of storage again and see if I can tolerate it with the chilly weather moving in. But I do not find it easier to breathe on the hh at all. As I say, I believe I am the exception on this site, or at least in the minority on this subject. Most people like using it.
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Post by Roger... » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:09 pm

Snoozie,
I'm with Lori on this one. I find high humidity makes it more difficult to breathe. My humidifier is set to the lowest level, but it needs to go up because the titration air is causing excessive drying.
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Post by WAFlowers » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:14 am

I also find it difficult to breath with the humidity too high. However if it is too low I am very restless and not sleeping as well.

But when it is just right ...

Hmmm ... sounds like a fairy tale about 3 ursines and a blonde burgler! .
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