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Snoring?
I got my CPAP several months ago. Took a little adjusting, but I'm up to about 8 or so hours of good hard sleep these days. Usually don't wake up at night and when I do, the culprit is usually a cat.
My girlfriend noted that my snoring is basically gone. She said occasionally I might snore "very very lightly" for a few minutes.
However, this weekend, both Friday and Saturday night, she said I was hitting it pretty hard for a while. It finally settled in. I admit I was about as tired as I could be on both nights...just exhausted from very long, physically and emotionally difficult days that had me up early and up late.
She said that it does level off and get very soft after a while, so I wonder if I'm falling deeply asleep quickly in that scenario, and am just snoring during the ramp up stage?
Do you think that snoring under these circumstances is normal?
My girlfriend noted that my snoring is basically gone. She said occasionally I might snore "very very lightly" for a few minutes.
However, this weekend, both Friday and Saturday night, she said I was hitting it pretty hard for a while. It finally settled in. I admit I was about as tired as I could be on both nights...just exhausted from very long, physically and emotionally difficult days that had me up early and up late.
She said that it does level off and get very soft after a while, so I wonder if I'm falling deeply asleep quickly in that scenario, and am just snoring during the ramp up stage?
Do you think that snoring under these circumstances is normal?
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Permalink Reply by Saz RPSGT on
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When you say "ramp up" stage, does this mean you are using the ramp feature on your machine?
If so, then you aren't getting your prescribed therapy for those 20 minutes and snoring would be completely normal. If you can tolerate it, just to cold turkey and turn that baby on full blast!!! The result would be your therapeutic pressure right away and no snoring.
If you had alcohol prior to bedtime, then that has been know to relax the upper airway a little making snoring (and OSA) much more likely.
Hopefully that answers your question.
Jason
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Permalink Reply by Clay Morgan on
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Thanks Jason.
And yes, I'm refering to the ramp feature. It was pre-programed to start at 4 and work up to 17 over a half hour.
My gf said it really has just happened when I'm really really exhausted. Don't drink, so it's not alcohol (unless milk counts - I'm addicted to it).
J. Sazama RPSGT said:When you say "ramp up" stage, does this mean you are using the ramp feature on your machine?
If so, then you aren't getting your prescribed therapy for those 20 minutes and snoring would be completely normal. If you can tolerate it, just to cold turkey and turn that baby on full blast!!! The result would be your therapeutic pressure right away and no snoring.
If you had alcohol prior to bedtime, then that has been know to relax the upper airway a little making snoring (and OSA) much more likely.
Hopefully that answers your question.
Jason
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That's a pretty long ramp time. If you can try to not use the ramp or get the DME to change the starting pressure to 10 or 12cmH20, that would be beneficial. With a half hour ramp time, that means you aren't at your therapeutic pressure setting for 12.5% of an 8 hour sleep window.
Even shortening the ramp time to only 10 or 15 minutes would help greatly. Contact your DME, it's an easy fix.
Jason
Clay Morgan said:Thanks Jason.
And yes, I'm refering to the ramp feature. It was pre-programed to start at 4 and work up to 17 over a half hour.
My gf said it really has just happened when I'm really really exhausted. Don't drink, so it's not alcohol (unless milk counts - I'm addicted to it).
J. Sazama RPSGT said:When you say "ramp up" stage, does this mean you are using the ramp feature on your machine?
If so, then you aren't getting your prescribed therapy for those 20 minutes and snoring would be completely normal. If you can tolerate it, just to cold turkey and turn that baby on full blast!!! The result would be your therapeutic pressure right away and no snoring.
If you had alcohol prior to bedtime, then that has been know to relax the upper airway a little making snoring (and OSA) much more likely.
Hopefully that answers your question.
Jason
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