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Re: Questions after first night on CPAP

Posted by Maestra on October 19, 2002 at 07:05:35:

In Reply to: Questions after first night on CPAP posted by alain_s on October 19, 2002 at 06:06:51:

Hi! Welcome to the club! Your wake-up from CPAP will probably be similar to your normal wake-up. If you usually take a few minutes to orient, then so it will be with CPAP. If you used to (pre-Apnea) leap out of bed singing :-) then that's how it will be now. There may be several reasons for your more quiet sleep with CPAP - first, you are not having apneas, which can cause you to thrash around trying to get air. Secondly, at some level your body is aware of this new thing and doesn't want to dislodge it. You may find you move more later on, but probably never as much as you did while trying to keep yourself from choking with apneas. Whatever happens to work to keep your mouth closed is "normal" - you're lucky if you don't awaken with the dreaded "dry mouth" which indicates mouth breathing has been happening. Finally, I was one of those who just put on the mask and went to sleep - no problems. From reading the forum, I know I "lucked out" but I've never had more than a few tweeks to worry about - a couple of sores, a mask that leaked, and sleep....blessed sleep.

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