Air in the Stomach from C-Pap

[Lyle S. Tucker 7]

I'm three weeks out for my sleeve, and lately I've been waking up with a *lot* of

air in my belly from my C-Pap. I've made sure my chin-strap's on very tight and

that I have no masks leaks, but I still have the problem and am now worried about

what this will do to my stomach after the surgery. I have an appointment this up-

coming week with my sleep doctor, but wanted to find out if anyone else had run

into this problem and what their experiences have been. Thanks!

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I'm three weeks out for my sleeve, and lately I've been waking up with a *lot* of

air in my belly from my C-Pap. I've made sure my chin-strap's on very tight and

that I have no masks leaks, but I still have the problem and am now worried about

what this will do to my stomach after the surgery. I have an appointment this up-

coming week with my sleep doctor, but wanted to find out if anyone else had run

into this problem and what their experiences have been. Thanks!

Yes, I experienced the same thing. I had to get my pressure adjusted soon after surgery. My sleep doctor gave me a new automatically adjustable machine.

[kelliev2015 136]

Here is an article which may be helpful. It gives you some exercises to try to strengthen your muscles.

http://www.sleep-apnea-guide.com/cpap-gas-problem-aerophagia.html

[Mary Burdick 18]

Even without a cpap I struggled with air or has from time to time and u want to share what hped me i got some baby gas drops hped me a lot. Had my WKS bypass in May and i thought the nausea would be at stop but it did. I weighed 377 when I began my journey this morning I weighed in at 301

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[TheRev 235]

I had the same problem. My surgeon's office told me to schedule an appointment with my sleep doc so they could adjust my ResMed pressure down for awhile. Unfortunately, the next appointment available was like 2 months out soooo...

I figured out how to bring up the clinician's menu on the cpap and talked to my surgeon about recommended pressure, set it to where he thought it would be best, and am sleeping happily now. I DO have a horrible dry mouth problem, though, but I can deal with that.

Edit: For the record, I also downloaded the data from the SD card in my machine and read through my own nightly reports to see what the past few nights have been like compared to pre-op - specifically, apnea events where I stop breathing, and even at a lower pressure I'm statistically where I should be event-wise. If you're a data nut/IT geek like me, google around or hit reddit for instructions on how to do this stuff. It's pretty cool to be able to see your own health in datapoints usually reserved for clinicians.

Mind you, I'm not diagnosing or making my own health decisions based on that data, per se, but I DID chnge things according to my surgeon's recommendations which I'll follow up with in 2 months at my sleep doc's office when they can spare 10 minutes for me.

Edited September 25, 2016 by TheRev

[Lyle S. Tucker 7]

I want to thank everyone for their responses - *much* appreciated!

I have an appointment to see my sleep doctor this Friday - I'm very

lucky in that they are *very* responsive. Yes, I have lost close to

thirty pounds and probably do need adjustments. I can't control the

air pressure (which is set at 20, the highest you can go, so, yes, I do

have the full face mask, but I also have a chin strap that I adjust tightly

to keep my mouth from opening). As per the advice offered on the

site suggested by kelliev2015, I'm sleeping on a couple of extra pillows &

have adjusted upward the C-Flex option on my machine by one number,

both of which resulted in my having *much* less air this morning. Tonight

I'm putting the C-Flex option up to it's highest setting and will see how

that does. Crossing my fingers in hope that this takes care of the matter!

Thank you all for your help, support and suggestions!