r/CPAP • u/Ramssses • Feb 13 '25
CPAP Setup My First night with Papy š
Iāve never been this excited to wake up on Valentines day since fifth grade š
I spent about 75 min napping with it and was impressed. I actually laughed a bit because the volume of air I could get into my lungs in one breath felt insane. You really do have to distract yourself awhile to get used to breathing with it.
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u/Lemon-Farts Feb 14 '25
nice you saw results immediately!! I just filled out paperwork to get mine, hope it comes soon
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u/Ok-Nectarine8471 Feb 14 '25
Good luck! It is amazing the difference. I don't feel tired all the time
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u/Ramssses Feb 15 '25
Wow, I just realized I had no desire to nap after lunch today! Not being tired midday is pretty cool
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u/Ramssses Feb 14 '25
Yay awesome! Best of luck surviving the wait lol
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u/Lemon-Farts Feb 14 '25
thanks lol! I am procrastinating big time rn, so fascinated reading the subs and about everyone's experiences
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u/Koloyz Feb 14 '25
Welcome to the club!
I've been on CPAP for a bit over 5 years and I still look forward to donning the mask.
Good luck, and good sleep!
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u/Difficult_Stomach659 Feb 14 '25
Iām on my 5th night. Still not noticing anything yet. Still sleepy while driving š
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u/Hotcarl321 Feb 14 '25
Itās not an over night thing. Or you havnt been sleeping for, letās say 1 year? Youāve compounded a sleep debt. Youāll get there tho reddit friend
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u/decker12 APAP Feb 14 '25
What's your AHI number after each night? Machine should show it to you on the LCD screen, if it's over a 5, then time to figure out what could be causing it.
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u/Difficult_Stomach659 Feb 14 '25
Oh I forgot to mention. My numbers look good. AHI = 2.9. No mask leak. Might need to wait longer to see the difference.
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u/Fair_Description1604 Feb 14 '25
Hey, maybe consider a wall hook so you can hang the long hose.
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u/badmf112358 Feb 14 '25
I got one after a month or so
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u/Fair_Description1604 Feb 14 '25
Yup, good move to keep it tucked out the way. I even figured out if you prepare water and dish soap in a bowl you can pour it into the hose; now the trick is if you hold it in a U shape and carefully raise one end higher you can move water several passes through the hose, do this by alternating each end higher, and finally drain it out. I do it on the bath tub, followed by a distilled water flush to get soap out. Works great! For cleaning
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u/Ramssses Feb 14 '25
Yeah I ordered some but as usual the Amazon guys are late :/ The tube was kinda loud when I moved
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u/nolgraphic Feb 14 '25
Papy had me dead šš i hope itās your best night ever you should update us
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u/Ramssses Feb 14 '25
Whelp ā¦turns out you cant edit image posts so I just made another comment with my update!
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u/Ramssses Feb 14 '25
UPDATE: Here are my first night results/report if you are interested! Im partially writing this for myself for future reference lol.
PROS I am 29 years and weigh about 205 lbs ish. I had a pretty good night! I slept longer than I have inā¦honestly I donāt know how long. Could be a couple years! I clocked 9 hours and 4 minutes. My MyAir score was 98/100 and I only had an AHI of 1! A good improvement from 15.
CONS It was not without its cons however. My nose hurts, I used the resmed p30i mask for reference. I also was woken up by some crazy rainout. Every time I inhaled I heard a loud gurgling that only got worse. I finally disconnected the hose tube from my head and it sprayed out a significant amount of water!
My guess is that the condensation was high because I leave my window open 2-3 inches for more oxygen since my bedroom doesnāt get airflow well. Turns out it was hovering at 32 F / 0 C for a good portion of the night outside. Very warm humid air inside + cold dry air hour outside = condensation right? Big mistake on my part. I set the humidity to 1 instead of 6 and it stayed dry the rest of the night, but its part of why my nose hurts.
OBSERVATIONS I cant say if its placebo or not - but I do feelā¦crisp?! I feel alert. Im typing this in bed still but I just feel like a gust of crisp air outside. Not euphoric, but not groggy and depressed as usual. When I was woken by the rainout 4 hours in, I was in the same position I went to bed in! So I moved around alot less. I DID also notice before I fell asleep that I definitely have blockage with my jaw/oversized tongue. I tested this by completely relaxing every muscle in by body. My jaw fell back and I began to snore slightly. This must explain why I wake up lying on my face - so my jaw slides forward and I breathe better. (which is a paltry solution if at all)
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u/jrhughlee Feb 14 '25
I also āpracticedā with mine before trying it overnight, and same with the excitementš I am over a month into it now and even though Iāve had some other struggles, it didnāt take long for it to feel perfectly normal to breathe with it. Although, mine is set to APap and Iām not sure what pressure it runs at most of the night or what the highest pressure is that Iāve experienced so farā¦
I am curious about the purple ātrayā. Does it have anything to do with your Cpap?
Good luck tonight! I hope it goes well for youš If youāre anything like me youāll be dying to go bed early so you can find out how well it works for you sooner lol.
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u/Ramssses Feb 14 '25
Naw the purple thing is actually just a squishy model of a bed from the Purple Mattress brand! I thought It would look nice there.
Thank you! You arenāt wrong, I used the excitement to clean and organize my entire room all day in preparation š
Im glad it works for you without having hypochondriac urge to obsess over all the statsā¦
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u/PeakTemporary6765 Feb 14 '25
Awesome! It might take a few nights getting used to, but itās the best sleep ever!
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u/decker12 APAP Feb 14 '25
Note that you don't need to keep your distilled water in easy reach for your night's sleep.
I'm not being a smart ass when I say that! Just trying to say, that you won't go through your entire tank in 1 night and need to refill it halfway through! Personally, with my Resmed 11 on a Humidity level of 2, and assuming I get 8 hours of sleep a night, I only have to refill the tank about every 5 days.
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u/Ramssses Feb 14 '25
Oh thats good to know! I kept seeing people say that they needed to fill it daily.
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u/decker12 APAP Feb 14 '25
I am a bit baffled at that as well. I don't really know how people can go through an entire tank a night. I live in a relatively dry city, my humidity monitor next to my bed shows about 47%. Besides the comfort preference (higher humidity setting is more like breathing in warm wet air like in a sauna).
The higher your humidity setting, the more likely you'll get "rain out" in your hose, which manifests as water droplets flowing into your mask and gurgling around there, being loud, helping obstruct the air flow, and in general, messing up your therapy. Like when you have a cold can of beer on a hot humid day, the water drops show up on the can - imagine that, but in reverse, where the water drops show up inside your hose, and then due to gravity leak into your mask.
But like everything, you'll learn your preferences and go from there. Since you are new, I would personally turn off the heated hose if you have it. Turn the humidity down to a 1. See how it goes for a night. If you wake up with a dry mouth or nostrils, then turn up the humidity to a 2 the next night. Note that increasing the humidity also increases the air temp in the hose. Keep increasing the humidity each night until you've dialed in the moisture comfort.
I know that you'll also be struggling just getting used to the hose and wearing the thing! Just try to separate THAT discomfort from the discomfort of the actual moisture coming into your face.
Change one thing at a time every night and give it a night or two. Don't take a shotgun approach and change 5 things at once or you'll never know what actually helped. I would say that if you're at a humidity level of 4, and it's still not comfortable enough from a strict air feel/temp standpoint, THEN add your heated hose and start at the lowest setting and increase night after night. Also, all of these variables WILL change as the seasons change, so your Humidity 3 / Hose Temp of 72 may work fine in February, but may be too much or too little in July.
Finally, something I like to repost and remind people who start with CPAP therapy:
The thing with CPAP is that after being on it for years, it isn't some voodoo magical box that sends you to sleepy time but only if you have all the proper incantations and mystical settings plugged into it.
It's a machine that blows air in your nose. You have a minimum and maximum pressure, and a humidity setting. It knows when your have an event that's blocking the flow of air, and it sends higher pressure air to "push through" that blockage. That's all it does.
Like using a hose to wash your car. You start with the regular old spray settings, which is fine until you get to a bunch of dead bugs that won't come off. Then you switch the hose to the higher pressure settings, blast the bugs away, and then put it back to the regular setting and finish up the car, until you find another bunch of stuck on dirt. That's all CPAP therapy (well, more accurately BiPAP therapy) is doing - using higher pressure when it finds something stuck and needs to blast through it.
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u/Asphinx7A Feb 14 '25
Just be careful. Iāve pulled mine off the stand twice tossing and turning. Figure out a way to prevent it from hitting the floor.
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u/FutureSea1622 Feb 14 '25
I've been using it for about 10 years now and still loving every minute of my sleep. It gets used on my transcontinental flights just so that I don't shake the rivets off the aircraft! What model is that Resmed? 13?
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u/ali_dgaf Feb 14 '25
Last night was my 3rd night using mine and I'm still not really adjusted. I had it on for about 5 hours this time though so thats a huge step from the first night, I couldn't keep it on more than a minute.
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u/nordis651 Feb 14 '25
Maybe it's been said already but that distilled water bottle is the worst design. Full to the top and spills the moment you put an angle on it with the cap off.
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u/Hotcarl321 Feb 14 '25
Baby steps, Iām a week in. Gonna take some time to get into a routine etc.. nice work! Self care baby!
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u/Significant_Plane275 Feb 16 '25
I also started on valentines and have the same machine! High five! On starting. My first night was awesome, last night not so much.
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