Hi Everyone!
I've been using my BiPAP machine for about 6 weeks now. Everything is smooth sailing except for one thing I've noticed.
A couple of times I've fallen asleep while watching a movie... comfortably drifted off... to awake to my heart racing. The actual increase in heart rate is what woke me... heart racing... very, very fast. I am not choking so much as I feel that I am not breathing at all and strongly feel my heart beating in my throat...
This never happens with the BiPAP machine... and I've never noticed it before using the BiPAP. In fact, the only times I have noticed it is after I've started the BiPAP and when napping without it (yes ,yes I know I am supposed to use the machine at all times... I'm a bad girl sometimes).
I sleep so soundly with the BiPAP... it is almost like I am now super-sensitive to my breathing and heart rate without it.
Anyone else experience this?
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