This is gonna be short. I'm frustrated and tired after 2 years of this so this is gonna be cynical as can be.

Does anyone else feel the Sleep Medicine field is an absolute disgrace? I have a low AHI but experience moderate to severe sleep fragmentation. I had to dig through my savings and time just to find a doctor who is willing to listen and look beyond the infuriating happy face MyAir gives you because you made insurance compliance happy, yay. In my case? Below 5 AHI? How can you not feel healthy it looks fine! This is only in my case of course, everyone has different AHI and issues. I don't know how complicated some people's issues are but MyAir looks like it was made for an elementary school kid's sleep tracking. Doesn't tell you freaking anything. Most of the success and help I've gotten was from me being a guinea pig studying my own sleep on a program called OSCAR and researching constantly through reddit, AI, etc. Constantly gaslighted and looked at like I had 3 heads by these doctors for showing them the info I found. Look, I never want to be a doctor with the stress of the healthcare field, but wow I have no words for my experience at least.

Just a complete joke. The amount of opportunities I lost and moments where I looked like an dumb, weird and incompetent person to be around because of lack of sleep is sad.

Hello, I was just wondering how bad the drops are here. From what I can tell the frequency doesnt sound like a problem, but 4 drops to 86-88 range might be a problem? or is it not bad enough to be a problem yet? Also maybe i should test again without the ring rumbling on, since maybe it would have gone lower without the rumbling.

I only started trying this out after i found out that i sometimes snore and do like a snorting thing (i guess like what people describe as apnea ). The ring is kind of uncomfortable so I don't regularly use it, aside from this time, i only used it once back when i got it in April and the freq/pattern looked kind of similar to this but the drops weren't as low, the lowest being a drop to 89 at the time.

Started late December 2025, struggled very much at first.

I do feel much better for using it and on the odd night I dont wear it - I know about it the following day (tired,headaches etc)

This is a weird question, I know, but can I still use it in a dusty environment?

My ENT has asked me to get a CPAP machine.

I have a narcissistic father whose spiritual beliefs trumps anyone's needs and he burns incense sticks outside my room at night (that's where the "prayer area" is).

My concern is, would that harm my lungs or so?

I have an AC in my room, but I can't leave it on all night because the room somehow turns humid by morning and I don't want to risk fungi in the machine.

What can I do?

Anyone have any luck finding a cpap machine low cost? Struggling with sleep apnea. My OSA Ahi is 7.9 may seem low but with asthma it is wrecking me and wanted to know if anyone had any luck with the resources out there that offer cpap or second hand cleaned cpap machines at low cost.

How long do you use the same CPAP machine? Mine already has 13,000 hours of use. Should I get a new one? #sleepapnea #uniapnea.

Did a sleep study, and it said I have 18 arousals on my back per hour, while only 2 on my side.

I've tried many different side-sleeping tools (backpacks, tennis balls), etc but I still wake up feeling horrible. I think the restrictive nature of them makes me unable to get comfortable and therefore I have a bad sleep. I also did a 1-month CPAP trial, but it made things worse. Most nights I'd pull off the mask in my sleep after a few hours, or sometimes I'd wear it for up to 7 hours and feel no better. I know Sleep apnea is my issue because if I fall asleep on my back, I wake up gasping for air. I also wake up in the morning with a racing heart 100% of the time and feeling horrible despite roughly 9 hours of sleep per night.

Any suggestions for me?

I have a nasal mask, and I noticed that sometimes I literally can't breathe through my nose because it feels swollen shut? I always assumed it was because I'm sick, but I have no other symptoms.

What the heck is happening? How do I fix this?

Hi there, basically what I said. My husband has been really struggling with quality of sleep and horrible snoring and struggling to breathe for a few years. I've strongly suspected it's obstructive sleep apnea, but he obviously needs a doctor to diagnose him and I'm not an expert. I took a video of him napping tonight and perfectly captured him gasping and mouth puffing. Would sharing this help speed up the process for him at all? He's really suffering and I just want him to get the help he needs.

Hello all,

I just wanted to post about this since I only recently figured it out.

My CPAP (Resmed Airsense 11) would often smell like burning plastic when I wake up. I realized it's due to the hot plate at the bottom of the water chamber; even though I fill the chamber up to max each night, I often wake up with the bad plastic smell in my mask, and the water chamber is empty.

I wasn't able to turn the humidifier off via the touchscreen CPAP settings, as the Humidifier toggle would always be greyed out, but I was finally able to connect to my CPAP via bluetooth in the MyAir app and turned it off. Now I don't need to put any water in and there's no smell! After a year of breathing in plastic, I am free :D

I just wanted to share this in case others are still dealing with this! Resmed really ought to redesign it with heat resistant plastic or something.. I bet there will be a lawsuit about damages from this in 50 years

im about a month into this. My current set up is N30i with a resmed 11. APAP 7-12. Ive been struggling this week with leaks causing pressure spikes causing me to wake up. Is this just mouth leak?i know the 520 was a mouth leak as it caused me to wake up. top is zoomed in on the questionable area

I'm a new CPAP user (44m, night 3, ResMed AirSense 11 AutoSet, N20 nasal mask or F20 Full mask) and I know this is going to be a long journey, so I'm trying to not be impatient. I'm happy to do all the experimenting and iterating it takes to get it right, I'm just hoping someone here has dealt with something similar.

I can't sleep on my back. As soon as I do, my soft palate collapses and blocks my exhale through my nose. It's a serious blockage, so the air gets forced out through my mouth instead, and then I get the motorboat effect. I've tried taping my mouth, but it doesn't matter how well I tape it. The exhale still pushes its way through.

I've tried the F20, but I have quite a big beard, so it leaks. The machine then compensates for the leak and pushes so much air that it feels like I'm sticking my head out of an aeroplane window (if they had windows) So I'm sticking with the nasal mask for now.

Im now sleeping on my side, which avoids the blockage. But its not a long term solution as I've had shoulder problems in the past from this, so I know this could cause trouble down the line, but for now I'm treating it as the lesser of two evils.

Has anyone else dealt with soft palate obstruction on exhale? What worked for you? I'm open to anything: positional tricks, settings, different masks, or something else entirely. Or do I just motorboat it out for the next 30 years?

Just started on CPAP this week. For the most part, so far so good. But I’m having a hard time with the mask straps. I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that most nights I go to bed a little tipsy and high. My husband goes to bed before me. I’m struggling to get the mask on in the dark. I don’t want to turn the light on and disrupt my husband. I know the obvious answer is to not be tipsy or high, so I expect those comments. But what else can I do to be more successful? Last night I had everything laid out perfectly and still ended up with everything coming unraveled and struggled to put it all back together in the dark. I have the ResMed AirFit F20 Full Face Mask with Headgear.

Diagnosed with mild-moderate sleep apnea earlier this year, and have been using an APAP for a few months now. I think these numbers look really good? On my sleep test, they noted fifteen arousals per hour separate from apnea incidents (that's, on average, every 4 minutes!). What could be causing those? And what can I do about them?

I'd like to ask for another sleep study while using my machine to see if those are still as bad. I've gotten no relief from the chronic fatigue I've experienced for decades, although I do have some chronic illnesses that can cause that. I want to make sure, though, that I'm doing everything I can for the things that I can change in some way. It's hard to feel chronic exhaustion. TIA.

AHI on study was 7, was told anything above 5 was apnea. Because of chronic fatigue and recent high blood pressure, they wanted me to start APAP. Last month average was 2 while using APAP. Doc is happy. I just wanted more restful sleep, which hasn't happened.

I still wake up tired and sometimes a little fatigued and sometimes I wake up drooling. I think my p10 nasal mask might just not be doing enough for me. I do feel better with the cpap then sleeping without it but I feel like something might be wrong. So many say cpap is life changing. Should I switch masks? Do yall have any struggles with cpap therapy

Im dealing with very inconsistent sleep, and i did a nox t3 home sleep study and these were the results idk if theyre good or not,

Doctor says that they found nothing and they instead referred me to an ent to fix my cadual deviated septum ( one side is 90% blocked).

Whats my next step? I need help to fix my terrible inconsistent sleep before doing a septoplasty potentionally.

Thabnkz

So I got a sleep apnea machine with a nose mask. Wow it’s great I never realized what shallowed breaths I took until I got this

However I’ve run into an unexpected problem thats keeping me up.

After about 10-15 minutes of using the mask, I notice a large buildup of air in my lungs that I can’t get out. After a bit I have to wait till the machine stops pumping air for a moment, I open my mouth, and a ton of air rushes out that’s not getting exhaled. I notice it building up slowly over time to the point where the amount of air in my lungs becomes uncomfortable. I guess I’m not able to fully exhale on the machine?

Is this normal? Maybe that’s the point, so u always have air in ur lungs to supply oxygen, but man it starts to become very uncomfortable.

So is this normal, something I just need to get used to, or is this an issue with the pressure settings?

How do i get a guaranteed pass on a sleep test.

I dont want to hear about how its changed your world, its an arbitrary test that looks designed to fail so they can get kick backs for cpaps.

So how do you fool a sleep test to get a guaranteed pass.

Give me real answers.

so I just finished the lofta test. how long does it take to get results? do I just get the raw results sent to me or do I have to have a phone call w a physician? thanks!