CPAP Noise Is a Problem at Night

CPAP Noise using my ResMed CPAP is a problem. There is a motor sound and air leakage sometimes. It almost sounds like parts of a song, I'm told. Will whitenoise help?

Yes it will help. I sleep with a fan on and do not notice it as much. I am new and just getting use to everything. I have always sleep with a fan on but I did have to turn it up because anything little thing use to wake me up.

Without knowing whether you have a newer or older CPAP...and without knowing what model you have...we can only guess. Make sure that all your hoses are connected tight...make sure your humidifier is sealed....put your CPAP on some rubber or foam pad to absorb vibration. If all fails, take it to your DME to be checked.

If you want to hear noise, try a cheap machine. Yes, my hoses were connected etc. But at 11, it was like a vacuum cleaner! I was thinking this was my imagination so I got a free app on my iphone to measure the decibels. It was LOUD. I then got the RedMed S9 Autoset, it's at least 20 decibels quieter. I know that an iphone app isn't going to be ultra accurate, but the relative difference was significant.

If yours is excessively loud, you should ask the DME to check it.

tbill1 wrote:CPAP Noise using my ResMed CPAP is a problem. There is a motor sound

The motor sound may very well just be the machine doing its job, and white noise will mask it.

and air leakage sometimes.

Depending on where those air leakage noises are coming from, they may or may not be part of the "normal" noises from a well working CPAP system.

If the air leakage noises are the result of the normal exhaust flow coming through the exhaust vents of the mask, then yeah, it's part of the normal noises. Hose management systems can help if the noise is the result of the normal exhaust flow hitting the bedcovers or your pillow.

But if the air leakage noises are coming from anywhere other than the exhaust vents on the mask, you've probably got some kind of an unintentional leak going on. Is it a problem? Well that depends on how often, how much, and how long those unintentional leaks are both in terms of "number of times they wake you up" and in terms of "objective size of the leaks". You need the leak data to sort things out in this case as well as the subjective data from answer the question: "How many times does it seem to disturb your sleep?"