Coping with a CPAP Device

How to Tolerate CPAP Therapy for Your Sleep Apnea

The CPAP can improve the quality of sleep tremendously, giving sleep apnea patients their life back. Not only you will regain the quality of life back, but your bed partner too. If you have sleep apnea, using a CPAP machine will make your partner very happy and he or she will be grateful for a quiet night sleep.

In this video you can see what is a CPAP device:

If you have sleep apnea and you use with great success a CPAP, you will get a lot of CPAP benefits, such as:

• improving sleep quality


• decreasing daytime sleepiness


• improving in the frequency and intensity of sleep apnea headaches


• improvement in short-term memory and daytime cognitive function


• decreasing the blood pressure, nighttime tachycardia and potential myocardial infarction


• lowering the risk of diabetes type two


• improving the gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)


• improving the mood and the depressive symptoms.

You may think that CPAP is a simple therapy; you just need to put your mask on your face and press "start" to begin breathing the delivered air from the device.

Well, it's not working like that all the time... The CPAP therapy can be intimidating and with problems and side effects for some people. It's not so easy to feel a strange object on your face or to breathe with a high level of air pressure that blows into your nose.

How to Cope With Your CPAP Device?

Here are the most important thing to know to avoid problems with CPAP devices:

1. choose the right CPAP mask - the mask is a crucial part of CPAP therapy tolerance and comfort. You need to choose the most appropriate size of the CPAP mask. It's also important that the CPAP mask to be comfortable.


2. education - learn more about sleep apnea side effects and how can CPAP therapy works to treat your sleep disorder.

   Ideally, you should learn about sleep apnea breathing disorder at the initial physician evaluation and the education continues throughout the evaluation and sleep testing.

3. ask your spouse - it is often the spouse of family of the sleep apnea patient who first brings his/her sleep disorder to their attention. You may deny the seriousness of the diagnosis of sleep apnea and remain reluctant to accept a CPAP therapy.

   Sleep Apnea is not a disorder that suddenly appears, but the symptoms usually appear slow enough that you may be unaware of the changes. However, your spouse knows better if you are different or not.

4. learn the features of CPAP - some CPAP devices have various features that can improve your comfort, such as:

   • ramp feature
   • expiratory pressure relief
   • humidifier

Remember that is important to learn the features of each CPAP machine before choosing.

You can measure the improvement after CPAP treatment and assess the impact of excessive sleepiness on daytime with a:

• sleep apnea questionnaire,


• and with the Epworth Sleepiness Scale.

However, the new CPAP devices have technology that facilitates more accurate tracking of data, which reports your adherence and potential problems to your doctor.

Once you get used to CPAP therapy, you will feel an overall improvement in your quality of life. No more drowsiness, fatigue, loss of memory and depression. Your life begins again!

People who read about CPAP Device also read about:

• best CPAP


• alternatives to CPAP


• CPAP side effects

Here are some other links you may like:

• BiPAP machines for Central Sleep Apnea

• Sleep Apnea can be the main Cause of Congestive Heart Failure

• Cheyne Stokes respirations and Central Apnea

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