"Gurgling Sound" driving wife crazy

[#1pipefitter]

I have a Dreamstation Auto Bipap with a P10 nasal pillows mask. My wife tells me that while asleep there are gurgling noises coming from me ( or the bipap) She says it sounds like someone blowing on a straw immersed in water, making bubbles. It wakes her up. I have no idea what is causing it. I don't have any water in my (heated) hose and none comes through to my mask.
Anyone have an idea what is causing this noise?

[Julie]

Water in the hose - it's best to locate the machine at or below his head so water will run back to the machine and not to you.

[JDS74]

As Julie suggests, the sound is from condensation in the hose at a low spot. Look closely at your hose at the lowest spot and see if there is some water condensed there.
If you lower the cpap machine so that the hose is completely up hill from the machine to you or install a hose hanger that has the same effect, the gurgling sound will go away.

[#1pipefitter]

I've checked my hose. There isn't any water in it. None.
The hose is heated as well.

[LSAT]

I've checked my hose. There isn't any water in it. None.
The hose is heated as well.

All it takes is a very small amount of water to "gurgle".....Follow the suggestions. Buy or make your own hose hanger. Any moisture will run down hill back to the humidifier. https://www.cpap.com/productpage/arden- ... ystem.html

[D.H.]

It could be that you're overfilling the water tank. Make sure not to go over the line. Also, make sure that the tank is sitting correctly in its place and that the lid is properly closed.

[Guest]

I've checked my hose. There isn't any water in it. None.
The hose is heated as well.

Disconnect the hose from the cpap then hang it so the entire hose hangs straight down. If no water comes out you better get in to see the doc.

[Okie bipap]

If there is any sort of a dip or low spot in the hose, moisture will collect there. I run my hose up over the headboard of my bed in order to keep the entire hose higher than my machine.

[palerider]

As Julie suggests, the sound is from condensation in the hose at a low spot. Look closely at your hose at the lowest spot and see if there is some water condensed there.
If you lower the cpap machine so that the hose is completely up hill from the machine to you or install a hose hanger that has the same effect, the gurgling sound will go away.

usually water in the hose makes a popping sound, not a gurgling sound. maybe an overfull humidifier?

[zoocrewphoto]

I get gurgling in the hose if I stay at my sister's place where the house temp is set lower. Or if I share a hotel room with somebody who runs the air conditioner a lot. To prevent this, I raise the temp of my humidifier settings about 6 degrees. I usually have it set fairly low as I like cool air. That solves my problem completely.

[DonnieRB]

I have been on cpap for 22 years. And for the last year. When i sleep. I have a horrible gurgling clicking noise coming from my throat ! NOT the machine! I have recorded it for my doctor. He never heard a noise like it before. I had a sleep study. They heard it. Turned up the cpap from 8 to 10. Said the noise stopped! NO it didn’t!
So i don’t use the cpap anymore because it keeps the wife awake or she sleeps in the spare room. This is unacceptable to me. My equipment is all new. I use a nose mask. Wondering if a full face mask would do it? Horrible idea! Imput please!

[DonnieRB]

I have an app called Sleep Talk. Sound attavated.

[remstarcpap]

If no H2O in the hose, then it might be that you are mouth breathing/gurgling. I do that when I don't tape. The other place you can get gurgles is in the mask itself. My P10 gurgles if their is too much humidity. Maybe ask your wife to wake you up in the middle of the night when she hears it, so that you can reproduce it and figure out which of these options are causing the gurgle.

Good gurgle luck!

[chunkyfrog]

Have her record it on her phone.
God help you if it's a premature death rattle.
(Totally unlikely)

[Patpruchnik]

I have had similar experience with a gurgling sound as I sleep. For years I was able to identify it only through my spouse since it occurs while I am asleep. However, In the recent past I have been able to hear it in the middle of the night while trying to get back to sleep. I believe the cause to be two fold:

1). POSTNASAL drip
2). BACKUP AIR from the CPAP which forces the POSTNASAL drip to reverberate in the back of the throat.

To mitigate the POSTNASAL drip I have increased my daily treatment to be (a) The use of a bed wedge, (b) the use of a saline sinus wash twice a day (I use NielMed), (c). Application of two drops of fluticasone (Flonase) spray in each nostrils at bed time.

I have a Resmed Airfit P10 CPAP.
In order to mitigate the back-flow of air, (a) my sleep doctor has changed a setting that automatically adjusts airflow only as needed with the idea that this might lessen the problem. (B) In addition, I contacted the manufacturer to activate the “pressure relief” option which is intended to make it easier when breathing out. This, in the hope of further reducing the problem.

I believe that these measures have substantially reduced the problem. I say this because the air leakage indicator on my CPAP has dropped into the normal range for the first time in years. I believe this leakage was due to the backed up air escaping through my lips as I slept. But I have to admit that I cannot be completely sure if the gurgling has subsided because my spouse has not yet returned to the bedroom!

Hope this helps.