These posts are from 3 years ago, so the original poster is long gone. Unfortunately, CPAP is difficult for many people to get used to, both the physical aspects and the idea of using it every night long term. So, we get a lot of people who really don't want help, but affirmation that they can quit. While I do think it is good to be rude to people, it can sometimes take some serious responses to help somebody pull out of their denial and get serious about using cpap. As hard as it, most problems can be overcome, and the results really are a great improvement.Jilly wrote:Wow, most comments here have simply made this journey more unbearable! Try so much air forced into the gut that you are doubled over in pain all night and tell me how you just suck it up and deal with it! After two weeks of sucking it up doubled over in pain, getting severe acid reflux which was never an issue prior to the machine, no sleep and a doctor who simply says, "Well then you aren't a candidate for this treatment" and that's that I am appalled at the insensitivity of the comments here. Fortunately I am pursuing treatment with an oral appliance. It is slow going, it hurts, causes mio facial pain but at least allows me to get a few hours sleep. I get treating this disease is a necessity but I don't get lack of compassion. How do you find your comments to be helpful or supportive? You would be the last people I would call for help or suggestions. I am sincerely pleased many of you have found a way to deal with your machines and wish it was an answer for all cases of sleep apnea but it just isn't! To the original poster: give it time and see if you can manage, if not please keep looking for alternatives to help you. Don't give up and don't feel you are just a complainer if you need support or alternatives to improve your odds of coping with this miserable disease!
I do hope you stuck around, ask questions, and learn to make your cpap work. The results with cpap are way better than the oral devices. Unless you are in the mild category, even "successful" treatment with an oral device will still leave you with sleep apnea. The good news is that the issues you are having can be eliminated with some tweaking of your settings. Most doctors are pretty clueless about how to make useful adjustments. They just know how to prescribe the machine, not how to use it. The people here CAN help you find the settings that will work for YOU.
If you would like to give it a try, let us know what machine and mask you are using, what settings you currently have. Pressure, relief, ramp, etc. If your machine has data, we can show you how to see that data and make changes based on that data.
