Posted by gwenna on October 05, 2005 at 16:19:03:

Hello everyone!
I have been reading over the forums and there is a lot of good information here! My boyfried was diagnosed with sleep apnea last year, severe, and he got his CPAP and it has been a fight to get him to use it ever since. First he complained that it dried out his mouth, and he tasted blood in the morning, he stopped using it for about 6 months. He finally realised that falling asleep at work is going to make him lose his job and so he decided to try it again. We are in a new city and he no longer has a sleep doctor, or a family doctor for that matter, and it is impossible (or at least really hard!) to find one in this town. We are trying to get one. Any way. He started using it again and with the humidity turned on the dryness & blood taste have gone away, but now he wakes up in pain, with his stomach bloated and distended from air pushing into it. So he stopped using it again! I am at a lose, I don't know what to recommend to him about that. Obviously we aren't going to change the pressure, and the humidity is on. He uses a full face mask because he is a mouth breather, and he has a really small nose, narrow and all that. At the moment we are sleeping in separate rooms because he is quite loud, and he twitches. I would really like to be able to help him. Has anyone else had the stomach problem? Is there anything he can do? He is getting so upset he is talking about having surgery! Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

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