I would like to comment about the family bed issue. I looked for a topic about it but I didn't see one.

We have an almost 3 year old grandson who has sleepovers. He also wakes Grandpa up each
weekday morning. Hubby was afraid the machine would scare our Grandson. What we did was show him
Grandpa's mask. He listened to the noise it made on Grandpa. The next day, when he came over in the morning
and went to wake up Grandpa, he said "Look, Grandpa has his mask on." That was that. No big deal.
I think kids accept it more than "some", meaning me, adults do.

Buckeye wrote:

I would like to comment about the family bed issue. I looked for a topic about it but I didn't see one.

We have an almost 3 year old grandson who has sleepovers. He also wakes Grandpa up each
weekday morning. Hubby was afraid the machine would scare our Grandson. What we did was show him
Grandpa's mask. He listened to the noise it made on Grandpa. The next day, when he came over in the morning
and went to wake up Grandpa, he said "Look, Grandpa has his mask on." That was that. No big deal.
I think kids accept it more than "some", meaning me, adults do.

So true...

I call it my anti-snore machine for my kids, rather than explain OSA.  They're 11 and 13.  They're cool with it.


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It's very hard to deal with sleep apnea, snoring, gasping for air, etc. and the spouse often ends up losing the same amount of sleep as the sleep apnea patient. When SA is diagnosed and cpap is prescribed the hope is that both of us will once again sleep through the night. But cpap can provide its own set of sleep interruptions for the user as well as the spouse unless some specific and often fundamental problems are identified and resolved.

Your problem with the noise can be dealt with in several ways.
  1. A fan or white noise machine or both can be very soothing.
  2. Move the machine to the floor maybe even under the bed. This may require a longer hose but hoses are very inexpensive.

If your spouse's mask is dislodging the loud wooshing sound can wake the dead. Avoid hose related mask dislodging by getting the hose out of your bed. If you've ever woken up aware that a cpap hose is in your bed then you can bet it is tangling beneath pillows, blankets and your spouse at times and is pulling on and disloging the mask from time to time. My spouse used to throw the hose at me and eventually move to another room due to all of the NEW sleep interruptions that came with cpap.

I moved my machine to the floor, got a hozer to delivery my hose and turned on a fan and soothing sound machine. We once again are sleeping through the night.

I hope this helps you. You CAN identify things that cause sleep interruptions for your spouse AND you and remedy them!

BGSMSHR wrote:

White noise generator in the mail to you today.  No charge..  
 
Good luck.

The White Noise Generator arrived yesterday
Tried it last night and seems to be helping.
Will take some getting used, as was sugggested, but sure hopeing it works.
Thanks again.