308fan
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I am looking forward to not having that CPAP on when I get me skinny body. Anyone here able to ditch theirs?
Who has ditched the CPAP after losing weight?
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I've lost nearly 50 lbs in the past 4 months.
I'd be concerned to ditch it without another sleep study to confirm I don't need it.
That said, I have taken naps without it and seem to sleep well, and one night I put the mask on but forgot to start the machine, slept thru the night anyway!
I'd be concerned to ditch it without another sleep study to confirm I don't need it.
That said, I have taken naps without it and seem to sleep well, and one night I put the mask on but forgot to start the machine, slept thru the night anyway!
FarmgirlRebel
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Ditched mine about 30lbs ago...best thing ever!
FartfulCodger
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Never had a CPAP, but was probably headed that way. Lost 60 lbs. and my wife says I don't snore anymore.
308fan
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You are lucky! I did not know how bad my sleep was until I started using it. The difference in how I felt was amazing. It truly was a life saving device.FartfulCodger said:
myopicmystic
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does your machine not have autostart? mine will kick on if i put the mask ondeluge said:
Apparently not. (FWIW, it wasn't a restful sleep, but at least I didn't wake up every 20mins?)myopicmystic said:
I was told it's not a CPAP, it's an APAP. I didn't sit in a lab wearing it, to dial it in. Supposedly it auto-adjusts.
I didn't get a sleep lab test to see if I needed it, either. I got a take-home data-acquisition rig.
There's some numbers I see when I scroll thru the memory, like "Total AI", "Obs AI" and "Central AI". Anyone know what to make of those numbers? Maybe they indicate how much or little its kicking on to assist my breathing?
Driftroot 55234
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As much as I would love to return my CPAP to Veterans Affairs, I would absolutely need a new sleep study.
As someone who works in a level 1 Trauma Hospital/University in the Midwest, I was speaking with the head of the ENT Dept. I made a comment along the line of "I can't wait to lose some weight and ditch my CPAP". He told to not rush to that without another sleep study due to the fact there could be 1,000+ reasons other than obesity causing my sleep apnea. Every single human being is different in some way. Someone could have too soft of a pallet in their mouth, their teeth are not shaped correctly or they have an over/underbite. A tongue could be to large or their airway could be 1mm to narrow.
So i will lose the weight and conduct another sleep study. If I were you, I would as well.
but to answer your question, I am incredibly excited at the potential to ditch my CPAP!
As someone who works in a level 1 Trauma Hospital/University in the Midwest, I was speaking with the head of the ENT Dept. I made a comment along the line of "I can't wait to lose some weight and ditch my CPAP". He told to not rush to that without another sleep study due to the fact there could be 1,000+ reasons other than obesity causing my sleep apnea. Every single human being is different in some way. Someone could have too soft of a pallet in their mouth, their teeth are not shaped correctly or they have an over/underbite. A tongue could be to large or their airway could be 1mm to narrow.
So i will lose the weight and conduct another sleep study. If I were you, I would as well.
but to answer your question, I am incredibly excited at the potential to ditch my CPAP!
myopicmystic
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I've lost around 30lbs so far and am still using it. I suspect it'll be another 30-50lbs before I'm confident enough to either test drive sleeping without it or asking for a sleep study.
However, I don't mind my machine, it's small and doesn't require distilled water. Plus, I felt so much better after starting it.
However, I don't mind my machine, it's small and doesn't require distilled water. Plus, I felt so much better after starting it.
I'd recommend looking up something called OSCAR for deeper insight into your CPAP data. I'd also recommend spending a little time on CPAP forums learning some of the intricacies there. In some ways (with the advent of APAP being commonplace) I think the current gatekeeping around prescriptions for CPAP are a little excessive. At the same time throwing a random APAP with an average sized mask and default settings on someone without any deeper evaluation of performance might not be the best plan either.deluge said:
I'm not opposed to DIY (that's what I did), but just pointing out that there are things to target and optimize with treatment that you'd likely benefit from exploring VS just letting/hoping the APAP algo takes care of everything and the CPAP software will properly report large leaks to you (it won't).
Thank you, I'll look into that.tubby said:
You may be misunderstanding what I'm saying. I didn't DIY it. My crappy-ass medical plan wouldn't cover a sleep study, so I wore an at home data-acquisition rig for 2 nights instead. They then used that data to program the APAP, and then had me come in for a fitting.
I do see a Dr. 1x/yr who reviews the data and offers guidance. (Data is uploaded via 5G). I am looking forward to that next appointment, as I'm curious if the weight loss has made changes necessary or if I possibly no longer have apnea.
That could be a well-managed program, since in theory you have someone reviewing the data and in theory they would notify you if they saw problems or reasons to make changes. I'd personally still want to know what's going on there just for my own understanding, but not everyone enjoys technical topics and in theory that's being taken care of for you by someone who is being paid to do so. You'll notice that I use "in theory" a lot in this paragraph.deluge said:
I'll also add that there's a good argument to be made for CPAP mode being superior to APAP mode (if one takes the effort to properly dial in the correct/optimal CPAP pressure), since the pressure fluctuations that come with APAP (and especially with pressure relief settings) can allow your airwaves to collapse and then have a need to be reopened (VS being continually held open). That's not something I suspect most clinicians are going to do for you, since it's so much easier just to let the APAP take care of the settings and your average user "likes" the pressure relief settings).
X3rocks
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I just got a cpap about a month ago. It is a real pia. Sometimes I feel like a hound dog riding in the back of a truck because its forcing so much air through the mask. Lol waiting on a doc app to tell me how im doing.
If losing weight will help get rid of it I need to step it up a bit.
If losing weight will help get rid of it I need to step it up a bit.
308fan
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Don't you have an automatic setting on your CPAP so it will self adjust?X3rocks said:
X3rocks
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It supposed to be set between 6-16. Whatever that means. Supposed to go do another sleep study to set it. Its on a more or less generic setting from what I understand.308fan said:
308fan
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I use the automatic setting and it works really well for me.308fan said:
X3rocks
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I threw the mask across the bedroom about midnight last night. Got tangled up in the hose. Only way it will not leak is to crank down on the straps pretty good. Then my damn nose starts itching. Gotta take it off scratch my nose and start all over again.308fan said:
This thing is stressing me out, not to mention the wife just looks at me like
“uhm no”.
Might want to test the water with different mask styles (full face VS nasal VS pillows). And might be worth washing the part that contacts your face with soap and water. I'm pretty lazy about washing mine, but find with a full face if I do wash it, I seem to stop having the "itch" problem for a bit. Getting the tightness perfect on the straps is a whole different kind of voodoo where the best I've found is to go into "mask fit" mode (for max pressure) and play around with different tightnesses (from different straps) while laying on the pillow at different angles until I find a balance that sucks less than what I previously had without leaking.X3rocks said:I threw the mask across the bedroom about midnight last night. Got tangled up in the hose. Only way it will not leak is to crank down on the straps pretty good. Then my damn nose starts itching. Gotta take it off scratch my nose and start all over again.
This thing is stressing me out, not to mention the wife just looks at me like
“uhm no”.
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