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Excess CO2 and headaches?

Posted by Black Rainbow on June 10, 2001 at 20:08:35:

Well, guess it was longer then I realized since I last wrote, but felt I should respond to the CO2 issue from a number of messages ago

(First; generous friend used his own credit card to order me a hose :) nice)

Now, CO2? don't think there's a problem exhaling, maybe I'm wrong. Isn't a HIGHER pressure more difficult to beat? trying to exhale against that pressure isn't easy. My pressure is fairly low - only 8. However it might as well be nothing because I really can't feel the air in my lungs the way I did at the start. It hardly feels like anything at all. It might as well be a nice breeze on my face really. Wouldn't exhaling be so much easier under a lower pressure? It feels like there's little resistance from the incoming air.

As for raising the pressure, I could look into it, but my last titration was in december, which was also my FIRST titration study after the autocpap trial. The pressure was raised from 7 to 8 at that point. Usually the waiting list for my doctor is 3 months but I'll see what I can do to get something a little sooner for something like this.

Note: chin strap - they didn't mention any mouth breathing during my first study or the titration. I wear a dental appliance as well as the cpap, for severe teeth grinding problems. I wonder if this is any sort of concern they didn't notice??

Tara
- the too-many-problems girl :)


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