Simple Fix For CPAP Stomach Pain, Bloating & Gas - Aerophagia

Aerophagia or stomach air is a common CPAP therapy side effect. If you're experiencing discomfort caused by aerophagia, consider switching your therapy mode from APAP to CPAP. The ResMed automatic algorithm that regulates the pressure changes will often increase the pressure far higher than required for optimal treatment.

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Uncle Nicko

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[CPAPReviews]

If you're unsure of where to set your CPAP pressure. I'd start just under your Median auto pressure number and then adjust up or down depending on the results. It's important to when you make a change to your settings that you run the change for at least 2-3 nights before making another change (unless the results are atrocious of course).

Create a FREE account and download your detailed therapy report today!
Features Include -
1. High-resolution 'breath-by-breath' analysis - View every apnea and every breath in full detail.
2. Sleep Journal - Track how changes to device settings influence your sleep & therapy results.
3. Custom PDF reports - Detailed therapy reports complete with journal entries.
4. Therapy Trends - Monitor changes to your apnea control over time.
5. Support - Access to the SleepHQ Community Forum
6. Education - From CPAP novice to therapy PRO. Master your device and settings with the SleepHQ Academy course
7. Blood Oxygen, Heart Rate & Movement Data - Connect a SleepHQ O2 Ring to your account to view additional data sources and take your therapy to the next level.
8. Access to exclusive, member-only discounts on the latest and greatest CPAP gear

And much more!


Thanks for all the love & support!
Uncle Nicko

[Blue_Skies_Sunflower_Fields]

I love how this guy dives right in to the data and tries to fix the problem.
There are so many nuances to contend with. It's really an art to get a good night's sleep with sleep apnea.
Keep up the great work.

[probuildman]

So happy for her, shortly before all of this happened, she was ready to give up on her therapy all together. She was pretty upset about it. I am personally very thankful for sleep HQ community. This is proof that it is worthwhile and I believe eventually we will hear stories of sleep HQ, actually saved a life. Uncle Nico and Adam, you both should be extremely thrilled but yet very humbled at what you have created with this community .. all I can say is hats off you both need to be commended and thank you

[raghavgakhar]

I am troubled by aerophagia, everyday morning, will try this and get back to you, Thanks Nico!

[kenhetherington]

Over 20 years on CPAP and I've learned more in the last few months watching these videos than I ever knew before. Dr. and sleep therapist won't give out this info. They want you to make another appointment--3 months out--for any adjustment. I use a resmed ASV. For the last year I've had an AHI of 0, and 8.3 hours average sleep time., but I've been getting lots of bloating, GERD and mask farts and waking up for the last 6 or 8 months. I've lowered my PS max from 20 to 10 (still going down) PS min is at 4. The last 2 night I didn't wake up at all. Bloating and gerd is better but not gone . would a fixed pressure be better than having a min and max?

[bruin-ruin]

I'm going to try this tonight. My aerophagia is getting worse and worse and is becoming a quality of life issue with queasy, bloating feeling, gas and worst of all, a foggy head with poor concentration. It's affecting my work performance and my energy level and mood.

If this works it'll be HUGE for me.

[heatherdouglas-palumberi]

Aerophagia (air-eating) is an important topic. So thankful that you have created this platform for today’s newbies to provide life-changing help.
I have been on CPAP since 2006. Back then, NO ONE really seemed to understand what it was, save for a few! I have lived in an Ivy league area, with an affiliated hospital - and this was still the case.. If I had not worked in research there, and advocated strongly, I would have likely had to stop treatment. Again, imagine health outcomes for those who really want and need this therapy, but become so discouraged that they must stop! In my case it was very painful, and actually bordered on feeling emergent. Thank goodness someone back then was able to trouble-shoot my aerophagia. My problem was too-high pressures and mouth-breathing. Solved by switching from Bi-PAP to CPAP to Auto-Pap, and fine-tuning to less aggressive settings. Turns out that higher settings than required also induced central apneas which normally did not exist. So, for me at least, several reasons to find answers. Thanks again for creating this platform. You are making a difference.

[merrilyn]

Thanks Nicko (nice haircut by the way). I would never have thought that a fixed pressure of 7 would be the way to go, especially when the machine kept jumping up to 10. I remember my max when I first started therapy was 16! I hope this video can help lots of others as I found the aerophagia could be pretty debilitating. You guys have without a doubt been my life savers 😊

[bassboy]

Thank you for helping so many of us
who are tired and tired of big belly look! I will join you and try going to a lower number to see if that helps. I look forward to your thoughts on my readings. thanks again!😊

[garysharpe]

Hi Guys,

I struggling with my CPAP machine, I'm waking up with sore chest most days with a pain in my shoulder blades, I have complex sleep apnea that caused Atrail Fibrillation, since using my CPAP I have been AF free.. so that's amazing!!! Plus I can't sleep the whole night a few hours then I wake and find it had to get back to sleep.. frustrating. Thanks Guys.
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[mattjones]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is what happened to me. I was on Resmed AutoSense10, Aerophagia was so bad I was getting severe GERD. Was also getting dizziness from all the air pumped into my sinuses & ear canals.

[alesan]

I love this example, because with MDs (in my experience), many of them lead themselves by the P95% and would not recommend her to use a fixed CPAP 7cmH2O even when the AHI is very low, (like this case) which tells us we can try a lower pressure and verify how the patient tolerates it. As a patient and an RST its refreshing watching how you handled this case.

[pamelaruszczyk]

Wow! Love your channel. Just learned about the large amount of gas I was having was from the Cpap machine. Thanks for the info.

[adamrobertson]

I've been having horrible gut and stomach issues. I've never used an SD card to collect data before. Whatever the sleep doctor put my settings on my machine is what they have stayed on for years. Now I'm really wanting to take a look at what i can change to get some relief.

[Hyperbole]

Perfect. I wonder why my specialist couldn't advise the same. 🤔

[castello]

Great info! I used to have this problem off and on for years! I had a hard time finding any info then but fixed it by lowering the pressure.

[cjb]

Awesome. I should start adjusting instead of leaving it in auto.

[christopherdowdy]

I just started CPAP therapy 4 days ago, thought I would share my experience. I am using an Airsense 10 auto features on and the mask that covers the nose, not the mouth. I started with 86-91 events per hour from sleep study.

Night 1- I used the prescribed settings 6-20 on the pressure delivery and a medium nose piece. I felt like I was being waterboarded, but I fought through it. In the morning I felt super bloated. I had 13.5 events per hour


Night 2- I bypassed the clinical setting and dropped the pressure delivery to 6-12, thinking this might help with the bloating. I also went to the large nose piece. I had reduced my events from 13.5/hour to only 5.5/hour. But man I was I bloated and nauscious.

Day of Night 3 I was so sick I felt like I was being poisoned. I was vomiting, had urgent diarreah, nausea and just felt so sick I decided to bypass another night of this until I talked to my doctor. I am not trading 1 problem for another.

I am on Day 4 now. Some bloating has passed and I am still nauseous. I am not doing another day of CPAP until my doctor gives me some answers.

[cardmonty]

Man o Man - I lost 150lbs on Keto, and I lowered my pressure from 12 to 10, but I noticed a lot of gas lately, and so I lowered it again to 9.5 - no gas now. Whew!! This is crazy.

[rhroney]

Thank you for your insight and examples to show what is working.