09-24-2024, 10:34 AM
New and unusual air leaks
Hi,
Ths my first post. I have been a successful Cpap user for 20 years. It’s a love-hate relationship. I sleep great with it, but hate having to use it. Something strange is happened in the last year. I have learned over the years, to sleep with my tongue against the top of my mouth. It’s never been a problem having mouth leaks. But lately, even with my tongue, I guess the top of my mouth I get these intermittent leaks from around the back of my tongue where air bubbles out through my lips occasionally. I wake up with my mouth completely glued shut. Lips glued together, tongue glued to the top of the mouth lips glued to the teeth. I have to get up and rinse my mouth or I can’t get back to sleep. I use nasal pillows and a med air since 11. It’s a new machine to me. I use the air since 10 for many years. I’ve played with the pressures. I was prescribed a pressure of 13 PSI. I found that if I lower the pressure between 13 and eight, the leaks are less but still there. it is like some structures in my nasal passages or throat have changed and are allowing air through where it never happened before. Does anyone have any information on what’s going on and how I can take care of this? It’s really disturbing my sleep. I used to get great sleep every night. Now I wake up with a dry mouth and a headache.
Ths my first post. I have been a successful Cpap user for 20 years. It’s a love-hate relationship. I sleep great with it, but hate having to use it. Something strange is happened in the last year. I have learned over the years, to sleep with my tongue against the top of my mouth. It’s never been a problem having mouth leaks. But lately, even with my tongue, I guess the top of my mouth I get these intermittent leaks from around the back of my tongue where air bubbles out through my lips occasionally. I wake up with my mouth completely glued shut. Lips glued together, tongue glued to the top of the mouth lips glued to the teeth. I have to get up and rinse my mouth or I can’t get back to sleep. I use nasal pillows and a med air since 11. It’s a new machine to me. I use the air since 10 for many years. I’ve played with the pressures. I was prescribed a pressure of 13 PSI. I found that if I lower the pressure between 13 and eight, the leaks are less but still there. it is like some structures in my nasal passages or throat have changed and are allowing air through where it never happened before. Does anyone have any information on what’s going on and how I can take care of this? It’s really disturbing my sleep. I used to get great sleep every night. Now I wake up with a dry mouth and a headache.
