Lactic acidosis in the lungs
I've been using cpap for about 8 or so years.
I have suffered from Lactic acidosis in my lungs when after a surgery in the recovery, I was still on the ventilator. I woke up while still intubated. My lungs were fighting the machine and could feel my lungs burning badly as I was not getting air.
That said, it has always left me wondering why we dont get woken up by Lactic acidosis in the lungs ? With my cpap I only have about 3 events per hour on avg. But even before my cpap, I never woke up from my lungs burning. I would think we would but I dont konw so I ask ? Thanks for any insight.
RE: Lactic acidosis in the lungs
Just to be clear on our terminology,
this is what I'm thinking of when you say lactic acidosis.
That being said, I doubt most apneas are long enough to cause this.
Paula
"If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now."
RE: Lactic acidosis in the lungs
Full invasive ventilation is normally done with sedation and intubation. Ventilation differs greatly from CPAP and bilevel positive air pressure in many ways, but basically, CPAP and BPAP are driven by spontaneous respiratory drive, while ventilation intends to shut-down spontaneous respiration and perform all respiratory function to trigger inspiration and cycle to expiration. If you fight the ventilator due to being conscious, that can cause injury. Do you not understand the differences in how these devices function? CPAP is not a ventilator.
RE: Lactic acidosis in the lungs
Might I suggest you download
OSCAR to track your therapy progress and post a few snapshots to improve the quality of advice from forum members?
Best, Steve
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius
RE: Lactic acidosis in the lungs
I was using my real world example of when I experienced the lactic acid build up in my lungs, when I was in recovery room.
My question is when someone needs a cpap but does not have one (for whatever reason) , how often or rare does patient have any complaints to include burning feeling in the lungs ? Due to lack of Oxygen getting to the lung tissue from not breathing?
RE: Lactic acidosis in the lungs
Burning feeling is probably rare. I would think this indicates a rather serious medical condition with getting checked out possibly with urgent care rather ASAP. I am not currently on any CPAP related therapy, need a ventilator class machine, and have Emphysema COPD. And I don't have burning lungs. If you do, then maybe the burning is attempting to get you to take action, probably now.
Maybe your oxygen levels are low. Take a pulse oximeter reading. If you don't have one, get a recording oximeter. If it's an oxygen deprived state, CPAP isn't good enough. You're possibly talking about supplemental oxygen. But I'm not the doctor. Find one and get checked.
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