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CPAP increasing blood pressure?


Posted by Joy on October 23, 1999 at 13:39:46:

Hi,

My husband has been diagnosed with sleep apnea and has been on a CPAP machine for 2 weeks. After changing from a Mirage Nasal Mask (it leaked) to nasal pillows with an angle adjuster (thanks to the forum, we knew what to ask for) he is sleeping so much better and feeling better too.

However, he has had 3 severe migraines since starting CPAP. He occasionally gets a migraine when his blood pressure is out of control but he takes 5 daily medications for that and has kept it under control for months - we immediately started checking his blood pressure when this happened and it is up around 160/104 instead of the 120/85 or so that the meds keep it at normally.

I know CPAP is supposed to decrease blood pressure if anything and we were hoping that maybe he could eventually decrease all these medications - after all having air pumped in is surely better than all those drugs. We didn't expect that it would go down overnight but we certainly weren't expecting it to increase. Does anyone have any ideas about this. It is a migraine not sinus headache and he does use a humidifier - we live in Colorado (at 7000 feet) so that is necessary

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