How many people with sleep apnea do not improve despite using a CPAP machine and why does this occur? After all, CPAP therapy is the gold standard treatment for sleep apnea with a highly effective [...]
An itching nose is a common complaint among CPAP users, but there are ways to prevent this most annoying situation. CPAP stands for continuous positive airway pressure. Complying to CPAP use is difficult enough for [...]
It’s understandable if a CPAP user is concerned about the machine’s noise or pressure causing hearing loss. […]
Are you concerned that your AHI keeps showing as two, three or four despite doing everything possible to ensure your CPAP is working right? It’s a fair question: Why don’t CPAP machines deliver an AHI [...]
There are quite a few causes for waking up every hour or so despite compliance with CPAP therapy. If this is happening to you, the obvious approach is to first identify if there are any [...]
The humidifier tank of your CPAP machine should not attract mold. If it does, it’s not being cleaned thoroughly. The issue, then, is just how should the humidifier tank be cleaned to prevent mold buildup? [...]
CPAP therapy for sleep apnea should not be making you feel even more tired and drained. “If you're actually sleeping the majority of the night and feeling MORE tired than you did without the CPAP, [...]
Even though old age brings with it problems, this does not mean you’re too old to benefit from CPAP therapy if newly diagnosed with sleep apnea. […]
Are you elderly and have just been told you have obstructive sleep apnea? Can you still benefit from CPAP therapy? Or should you just use supplemental oxygen? If your primary care doctor believes you're too [...]
CPAP treatment of sleep apnea lowers cardiovascular risk – significantly, when compared to what it potentially could be if sleep apnea goes untreated on a chronic level. […]
Sleep apnea may not always occur every single night and in fact may be sporadic in some cases. This can be referred to as intermittent sleep apnea, in which the intermittency is measured in days [...]
Which is more tolerable for preventing sleep apnea: sleeping upright or sleeping lying down with a CPAP machine on? This is a million-dollar question to people diagnosed with sleep apnea who can’t stand using a [...]
If you have sleep apnea, you’re more likely to die from cancer, not to mention other causes of death. In addition to a higher risk of death from cancer, sleep apnea is linked to heart [...]
