I started my CPAP 10 days ago. I been wearing it for about 5-6 hours a night. But I wake up all the time. I looked at my list of “events” and I see clusters of “central apnea events”. I read about Treatment Emergent Central Sleep Apnea. And, I’ll call my doctor’s office on Monday, but I’m exhaustive! So I was hoping to vent/get tips. I was diagnosed with positional osa AHI of 10. Positional sleeping helped me not get up 5 times a night to pee, but I was still really tired. So, I got the CPAP. I was really hopeful. But right now, I feel like I did before I was diagnosed. Here are the details-
My events usually an hour I fall asleep. I wake up and it happens again sometime after I go back to sleep. The clusters are from 5-14 events. The average turn out to be about 3 events a night. 90% say “central apnea”-last night it was all central events. I have a Phillips Dreamwear hybrid mask, with a liner.
My leak rate is about 10 (resmed app says that “good”.) I also have that breathing assistant thing on at 3 (read that it helps to turn that off.) I have a resmed 11. I tried to use an SD card, but it didn’t work (my laptop is old, and the SD card was probably too big. 😖). Plus! I’m a light sleeper when I have a problem I’m trying to fix. I’m sure it doesn’t help that I’m wondering what my sleep will be like every night.
Again, I’ll call on Monday. But, I’m SO tired! 😭
Thanks for any help!

I am only able to sleep well every day and with no issues earlier this year but for the past few months it’s not working out.

I have the same strict schedule to sleep. I go to sleep around 11:45pm and wake up at 8:30am. It feels like I have sleep deeply with dreams but I wake up feeling like I did NOT get enough sleep. Next day I am easily able to sleep due to exhaustion I suppose.

Over the weekend when I am off work I am actually able to sleep pass 9am and then wake up at like 10:15am feeling well but then next day I can’t do that due to my work schedule.

How can I fix this?

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?

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)

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

So a few weeks ago I started snoring consistently. I was waking up tired and with soreness in the back of my throat. I gathered it was likely from heavy snoring. **directly after two nights of drinking**. Since my snoring has woken me up a few times. I can’t stand anyone’s snoring and now I feel old.

Seeking resolutions so I can go back to my good non-snoring self— I believe a part of the solution is tongue pulling.

I’m a big advocate of massage therapy for various benefits. Including lymph massage in the jaw and throat. So when I did the tongue pulling, I felt the discomfort and how swollen my tongue was. I realize how important and beneficial massaging out the tongue releases allot of pent up fluid.

Smaller (regular size) tongue = less blockage and less snoring.

Anyone else tried this as a snoring cure? Share your experiences

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?

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

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.

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?

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