Hello Laura, How exciting for you to get to spend some time in Mexico. I am in Mazatlan, Mexico now and am leaving for San Miguel on Feb. 21. I have been on Cpap for about three years now and while in Mexico I use bottled water that I buy in the market in gallon containers. I have found since I have...

\Hello, I have been having numerous problems with my sinus and throat since being on Cpap. I have seen my ENT 3 times now and I still am having stuffy nose, and a feeling of difficulty in swallowing sometimes. I have tried everything from saline nasa,l sprays, neti pot, changes in my hudmidifier . a...

Thanks Robysue and Pugsy...I will read the information and see what I am missing here with this..Thanks so much for taking time to help me with this.
Bren

Hello, I have been on Cpap for 18 months now and for the last few months I have noticed a huge change in my nasal passages. I am always stuffed up and always have a lot of mucus drainage and hard to swallow. Feels like a constant drainage problem. I have changed settings on my humidifer. I use a sal...

Hello, I have been on Cpap for a year now...I cannot even imagine sleeping through the nite with no wake ups...not even on my best nites. If there are people on this forum that can acutally say they have no wake-ups at nite...then please let me know how you do it. I probably wake up at least 5 times...

Hello Jbn, I use Lorazapam sometimes for a relaxing medication. I have stomach issues which it helps with. You are right about the numbers being lower and better with its use. I sometimes take it before bedtime. I am on a very small dosage 0.5mg . The down side of it as you know is it can be very ad...

Hello Everyone,
TOMORROW IS VALENTINES DAY AND I WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL OF THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM THAT HAVE HELPED ME SO MUCH A WONDERFUL VALENTINES DAY! WHATEVER YOU DO I HOPE THAT YOUR DAY IS SPECIAL...
God Bless!
Bren

Mickey, I have read all of the replies to your post and I just want to say to everyone ... why are we responding to a post like this when we can be helping the people on this forum that actually have a brain and can really use it,,,unlike you Mickey!!! I think its really time that you get a life...M...

Hello,
Thanks eveyone for your input. My problem is I do not know how to change the pressure on this machine.,
Thanks
Bren

Hello, I just received my new back up machine which is the DeVilbiss intelli Pap Standard Plus with SmartFlex. My pressure is set at 9cm and I am on vacation right now for about a month and my AHI's have been around 7.6 every night. I have a new mask with very small leak percentage so I was wonderin...

Lsat....I am on my eighth mask of trying to find the right one and I still have the eye problems..I have just learned to deal with it.
Thanks
Bren

Lsat...I think that she was having air from the cpap blowing in her eyes and that is what caused the irratation with the eyelids.
I have a nasal mask and I have so many problems with my eyes tearing up and its very uncomfortable. I have tried everything and nothing seems to help.
Bren

Hello, What a great story and so glad you are feeling better after this "painless proedure"....Please, it is so hard for me to undertaand how this could be painless...I have same problems as you were having and I am scared to death to have this done...I am a big chicken. I go to the ENT next week to...

Hello, I started on cpap almost a year ago and before Cpap I was getting up at least two times a night to urinate. After a few weeks on Cpap I never got up to use the bathroom.....in the last few weeks it has come back to haunt me again...I have no urine infections or anything different going on but...

Hello Monica, I have only been on Cpap 13 months so I am not as experienced as most people on this forum but I will say that when I first started Cpap I experienced slight chest pains. I thought at first it was the fact that i was breathing so deeply in my sleep. They were slight pains that lasted a...