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medicalreasons1on Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea

It sounds louder.

I figured, since hearing protection solves the problem, it's not a problem inside the head. Well it might be after all as I am apparently super sound sensitive.

medicalreasons1on Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea

It is not the machine at all. I have a ResMed AirSense 10 AutoSet. Bystanders tell me that they hear next to nothing. It is the sound that is made in the mask (ResMed AirFit F30i) when I inhale that drives me crazy. Every time I breathe in, it sounds like Darth Vader.

medicalreasons1on Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea

I am completely shocked that this discussion does more or less not include the issue of noise. I was diagnosed with 100 AHI last year and from day one it was impossible for me to sleep with the noise the mask makes.... The first night in sleep centre with CPAP was hell for me. I couldn't fall asleep even though it was 4 a.m. and I had only slept 4 hours the day before.

At home I can only fall asleep with hearing protection, because of which my ears are permanently inflamed.

The doctor, referring to the high AHI, did not even consider trying other forms of therapy. > You can sleep with hearing protection, right? Then everything is good.

To me, CPAP doesn't feel like a solution. Rather, it is a bad temporary solution with which a lot of money can be made through rental fees.