I have just received mine and every time I try to use it, I get cramps in my toes and muscle twitching in my legs. At first, I could only use it for about 15 minutes. After 3 days, I’m up to about 40 minutes, but I do not fall asleep and I can’t keep using it after the twitching starts. Once I turn off the machine, it takes about half an hour before the twitching subsides.
My provider is very supportive. She’s changed the settings twice and I’ve noticed some improvement. I have a ResMed VPAP ST.

I WAS DIAGNOSED IN 2001 WITH SLEEP APNEA AND RECEIVED A C PAP MACHINE. IT QUIT WORKING AND NOW THAT I AM RETIRED, JUST WANTED TO KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT GETTING ANOTHER C PAP MACHINE SO I CAN REST AND SLEEP AT NIGHT. THANKS

i have been doing this for years but it seem like it is getting worse whenever i am sleeping sometimes i stop breathing and i wake up gasping for air i have had surgery a few times so that is how i found out about sleep apnea but i though that people who had sleep apnea needed machines so if i had it i would know but maybe i am just ignorant of what sleep apnea is can anyway tell me what is wrong with me?
when i say i had surgery i did not mean for sleep apnea i just mean surgery period before people usually cut you up they ask if you have it

They want to run more tests but I have been with out that machine for days now, and I can tell a difference. I am so tired.
What can I do until I get a CPAP to sleep with, that I won’t be so tired?
I do not have obstructive but central sleep apnea.
I can really tell a difference in my energy when I use the CPAP. I contacted the DR but ehy want me to wait until I have taken more tests.

Now for some information. I recently underwent a sleep study for sleep apnea and after being sleep deprived for most of my adult life (I am 46) I am now using a CPAP machine. Since beginning this therapy I can’t sleep more than 6 hours per night and usually only 5. I awake refreshed and need no more sleep throughout the day. Is this common for people who begin using CPAP machines and will I require more sleep as time goes on. I have been using this for 6 months.
If you are using CPAP therapy I would appreciate your answers.

In which companiese, I can buy sleep apnea treament CPAP machine? Please list the CPAP dealers with company website so that I can compare the price and service. Million thanks!!
In which shop is better to buy CPAP machine in the USA

I want to get a CPAP, I’ve been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea, but I couldn’t make the appointment for them to find my correct pressure setting. How important is it to know that pressure setting? I want to buy my own CPAP machine but I don’t know what pressure to set it at.

I have Obstructive Sleep Apnea, and I have to sleep with a Bi-PAP machine. It doesn’t happen all the time, but on occasion I wake up belching alot with a stomach full of air.

My husband has a lot of trouble sleeping, and nothing we try helps him. He has to get up at 5am, and he tries to go to bed early. But if he sleeps early, he falls asleep for a short time, then wakes up and can’t go back to sleep for the rest of the night. And he keeps waking up in the middle of the night and often he can’t go back to sleep then, either.

He has tried three different medications: Ambien, Lunesta, and Rosarum, and none have helped. He has sleep apnea and has tried using a c-pap machine, and couldn’t tolerate it.

He has lowered his caffeine intake, but can’t eliminate it completely because he can’t wake up otherwise (waking up at 5am every day and not ever getting enough sleep).

Can anyone give us some advice on how he can get enough sleep?

My father has Obstructive Sleep Apnea and will be going in for a sleep study soon so I am looking at CPAP Machines and doing research.

My father came across an add for this "Oral Appliance Therapy" thing and I am wondering if you have any info on if it works or if it is a scam.

Oral Appliance Therapy

http://www.tiredofcpap.com/

I’m looking at the CPAP Machines and if you could share your stories with me, I would greatly appreciate it!
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstructive_Sleep_Apnea

I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea and have been using a cpap machine for about a year and a half. Since that time I have not slept longer than 7 hours a night and most nights I only sleep 5 or 6 hours. Is this normal for people most people using this type of therapy?

I was diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea about a year ago. I was given a cpap machine and I tried to use it a couple of times, but gave up on it. If I start using it regularly, how much of a difference will I notice in my everyday life? Also, does anyone have any tips on how to get through the first couple of weeks using the machine?

I have sleep apnea and use a air machine but the airflow is set too high and I want to decrease it

I did a sleep study for my doctor because he thought I had sleep apnea. Well I did it, and the sleep apnea doctor called me back the same night after I did it, and told me I had Mild sleep apnea, but his concern was with my low oxygen levels. He said he wanted me to stay at my house and sleep with a cpap machine and check my oxygen levels for a night, and he said my doctor would call me back or the company that does the equipment, well low and behold noone calls me for over a month, so I called the office and they said they hadn’t received the results yet. So anyway I had to take my daughter to the same doctor today and while I was there I asked him if he received the results yet, and he told me to ask the office girls? (what a doctor) so I go out there and ask the office workers if they received them, well low and behold they had received them the day after I had it done, and the doctor I guess just doesn’t look at his patients info when it is faxed in. I guess the dumb office workers just glance at it and file. So anyways they gave me a copy of this fax and the sleep doctor has all this stuff he suggests that my doctor do like have done what he told me with the cpap machine, and also maybe look into surgury, and he suggested a pulmonary and cardiac evaluation since I’m only 30. I don’t understand why my doctor just doesn’t do anything about this, The sleep doctor said on this report my lowest saturation of sleep oxygen was reduced to 63.1%. I think that is pretty bad. I have trouble breathing when I try to go to sleep without taking something to sleep, because when I take something I don’t have to think about it, I just get zonked out. What should I do? I want to defiantly change doctors, but can he get in trouble for this, or since this doctor just suggested it would it not matter. I feel so uncared for at this doctors office, why have me do a sleep study and not even look at my results. Someone please give me info and advice I need so badly. If I change doctors and give them these results will the insurance still go by them and let my new doctor help me?

I have recently been diagnosed with sleep apnea and just got a CPAP machine. It’s taking some getting used to, and I have used it only during the day so far when I’m awake. Hopefully, I’ll get used to it soon and will be able to use it when sleeping.

My question: What benefits did you users notice? I have extreme daytime fatigue and often feel like I’m functioning at only about 50% cognitively. Do you feel more alert and focused from improved quality of sleep with the CPAP?
I just got the CPAP today. I spent about half an hour with the mask, with the technician monitoring and giving me instructions and etc. When I had my last sleep test, I spent some time awake with it on, and managed to sleep a few hours with it.

I’m not accustomed to anything on or near my face when I’m sleeping, and I have to stay pretty much in one position.

I plan to try to sleep with it tomorrow night. It’s not like I’ve had it for months and am refusing to use it! It’s just new and foreign to me.

so my dad has severe sleep apnea. its mixed apnea (obstructive and central) and he has episodes 70 times a night. he uses a machine (CPAP or BiPAP) to breathe.

what does this mean? will he be okay? is his life in danger?

My specific situation, for example:

Last night, lights out at midnight. Set alarm for 6:15 or so.

Woke up at 4 a.m. Couldn’t get back to sleep. Finally got up, read a little, got ready, and went to work.

By 8 a.m. I have a lot of work to do that requires focus. My eyes are droopy and I keep feeling like I’m going to doze off.

Also, I have sleep apnea and use a bipap machine.

It would have been better, upon awakening at 4, if I could have gotten another hour or two of sleep. But how to do that? I wasn’t enthusiastically awake…I really didn’t want to get out of bed.

Techniques would be great and much appreciated!
Great answers…thanks to you both! I’ll put it to vote…I’m going to try most of these (except coffee…I already know what that would do to me because I’ve done that before!)

I have severe sleep apnea. I sleep with a CPAP (continous positive airways pressure) machine. It works great, but my nose tickles several times in the middle of the night! I have to turn it off and scratch my nose before i can go back to sleep. What can i do to stop the ticleing????
The tickle is on the outside of my nose, not inside.

My dad has recently been diagnosed with Sleep apnea and is using a CPAP machine at night. He’s been having a hard time sleeping with it and so I wanted to get him something to help make it easier for him sleep. Does anyone have any suggestions on what may make it easier for him? I was thinking of getting a noise machine to help him relax and take his mind off of the mask on his face; would that help at all?

Okay, sorry this is so long, i just had to explain myself :p
For about the past year or so I’ve been noticing that during the day I am always fatigued. Some days when i have nothing at all to do I could sleep about 16 hours. My mom didn’t think anything of it cause I’m 16 and she just thinks i stay out all night lol. I could sleep about 16 or so hours, wake up, be exhausted, and take a nap and sleep some more, then around 8 go back to sleep. I know this isn’t normal, and isn’t physically, nor mentally/emotionally healthy. I am anemic and i figured it was because my lack of iron. And thats also what my doctor told me. but recently i’ve been noticing that in the middle of the night I will get woken up due to bone aches. Not like muscle aches, but bone aches. And there so bad ill have to get up and take something and suffer through until the medicine kicks in. It’s normally like, my elbow, the bones all through my legs, and my pelvic area. I also wake in the middle of the night and catch myself not breathing. But that doesn’t happen as often as the aches. I did some research and found that i have many symptoms of sleep apnea. But i don’t want to be put on a breathing machine, because I don’t want to become dependent. I also don’t like, wanna be married and before bed have to plug up on oxygen or whatever. I was just wondering if anyone could give me any information or suggestions. Or if anyone knew if there were other procedures, not sergical, that I could take into consideration.
Thank you, if you read all of this and are attempting to help me. I appreciate it. :)
no, i am not overweight. i’m about 5’5 and weight 115. i dont have diabetes either.
And i also do not sleep on my back, I can only sleep on my stomach. And i’ve always been that way =/

He has severe sleep apnea and uses a c pap machine nightly when he is home. I was wondering if once someone begins using one, will their body become dependent on it making the apnea worse when they are not using it? I’m asking because my dad travels back and forth to china every month and has admitted he does not use it on the plane! He also dozes off while watching tv and obviously doesn’t wear it then. I just worry about him.

I am reading up on sleep apnea and would like to hear some advice on what may be the best cpap macines on the market?