Tired, light headed and dizzy?

[ivory]

Hi all,

I tried to search to see if this has previously been covered with no luck, but sorry if I missed a thread on point. I've been on CPAP for approximately 6 months with good results until the last two weeks. Recently, even though I've been using my CPAP every night as usual, I wake up really tired, light headed and dizzy - what's going on? I've had to switch machines a couple of times because my card wasn't recording and I don't think it's recording this time either (I am new to checking data, but I tried and it said I've only used the machine 15 of the last 30 days, which is incorrect).

I've done some travelling recently, but taken and used my CPAP each time except last weekend I did not use my CPAP for two days while camping. I thought I just needed to catch up on some good sleep, but it's been 5 nights on CPAP since I've gotten back from camping (7+ hours of sleep with CPAP each night) and I don't seem to be feeling any better. My mother mentioned that while we were camping (no CPAP), my breathing during sleep was very shallow and very fast (she says fast enough to hyperventilate).

I thought maybe my mask was getting old, so I switched to a new one (Nasal Aire II). I wake up with a full seal in the morning so I am not removing my mask at night and I don't think it's getting dislodged in the night. I will take my card into the DME next week to have her look at the data, but I thought I'd see if anyone has any suggestions in the meantime.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? What do you suggest I do?

Thanks!

[Muse-Inc]

Losing therapy air will do that. After 17 months or thereabouts, 100% compliant wearing my beloved OptiLife pillow mask, I started losing air thru puffs via lips, enough that I backslid...a lot. Wasn't until I discovered this forum that I leared what was happening. I now wear the RespCare Hybrid mask that covers my mouth and has nasal pillows..no more losing therapy air and I re-gaining lost ground toward whatever degree of recovery I'll be able to reach.