belching and flatulation

Safta V · Post by **Safta V** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:12 am

I am a new CPAP user and find that it causes me to become very bloated in the middle of the night. It gives me a stomach ache and causes me to belch and have very noisy gas. Any suggestions?

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:52 am

Some questions ...

1) What cms setting

2) What type of mask / masks

3) Are you on straight CPAP ?

Re aerophagia, this can be very disconcerting as you well know. I was plagued with it until I switched to a BiLevel at 15/8 cms Ipap/Epap. Then my breathing out became so easy & the aerphagia went away - gone !.

This may work for you - can you get to try a BiLevel ?

Cheers dsm

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sleepylady · Post by **sleepylady** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:31 am

Safta V,

There are lots of good suggestions on this forum. My DME told me to try and sleep on a foam wedge. I have a windy pressure of 16 (originally 14) and found after about 2 months this problem went away. Apparently I got more used to it and stopped having to swallow the air.

Hope this gets alleviated for you soon. I hated waking up in the morning with a sore or painful tummy.

Melinda