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Questions after first night on CPAP

Posted by alain_s on October 19, 2002 at 06:06:51:

At the beginning of the week, I finally got my long-awaited sleep test. Thanks to resources like Speepnet, I have known for a long while that I suffer from OSA. Unfortunately, to get a CPAP machine, it takes a prescription. For those who think the Canadian health system is so good, I can only tell you it took me over two years to finally get a sleep test and my CPAP prescription.

But enough ranting, I get my CPAP machine yesterday and after my first first night on it, I would like to share some comments and questions.

I have red many comments to the effect that for many, their first night on CPAP felt like the first night of sleep for years. In my case, both after my initial sleep test and this morning, I didn't really get this impression right away. I mean, I felt good when waking up compared to most nights, but the real difference seems to come on somewhat later. It seems to take a couple of minutes to really fell I had a much better night of sleep. I was wandering if the feeling was similat for other people.

Something else I noticed is that usually, I toss and turn a lot while sleeping. To the point that sometimes I waked up with bed cover and sheets down on the floor, etc. In fact, I was kind of scared that I could even break the CPAP machine or something with such restless sleep. But when hooked on the CPAP (both on my sleep test and now at home), I seem to stay totally immobile during the night. I wake up in the same position I started to sleep. Anyone else noticed something similar ?

Since I often breath through the mouth instead of through the nose and since I have only used nasal masks, I was kind of afraid that I would open up my mouth my sleeping and basically nullify the effect of the CPAP. Strange thing is, it hasn't happened so far. In fact, it seems that the CPAP has the effect of forcing my mouth's airway to close. This is kind of difficult to describe, but if it happens to you, you'll propably know what I mean. Thus, I'd like to know if this is "normal".

Finally, I seem to have adapted very easily to the CPAP. It doesn't cause any kind of irritation thus far, no panic state and no discomfort even. After reading about so many people with any or all of above, I was wandering if others had such an easy adaptation to CPAP and especially if there are case where troubles show up later, after a smooth inital adaptation.

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