I noticed that for me as well. Even when I have gotten sleep with the CPAP, I woke up after 2 to 4 hours. Never got more than 4 hours with it and always woke up feeling exhausted. Normally I don't wake up too early, but the CPAP made me wake up really early on the very few occasions I was able to u...

I noticed that for me as well. Even when I have gotten sleep with the CPAP, I woke up after 2 to 4 hours. Never got more than 4 hours with it and always woke up feeling exhausted. Normally I don't wake up too early, but the CPAP made me wake up really early on the very few occasions I was able to us...

Why aren't you willing to consult a psychologist/therapist to help you with your sleeping-with-mask problem? what I don't understand is why people keep talking to someone that's referred to Bleeping Beauty as something that starts with C and rhymes with "punt"... Yup... PR is feeling better and has...

Julie wrote:Why aren't you willing to consult a psychologist/therapist to help you with your sleeping-with-mask problem?

Julie, I'm seeing a real doctor. It's a physical problem. Please just let me see my doctor. No more questions about this. It's like you guys are trying to rub it in.

Cancun, I cannot sleep in my machine. Please don't make me repeat myself. Don't be ignorant. Enchanter, I may have missed it, but do you ever explain why you can't do something? I'm paraphrasing but I always seem to see you say things like "I can't sleep with the machine" or "I can't tolerate the m...

Enchanter, it is not always weight related. I had a sleep study in 2014, no signs at all of apnea. By 2015 I had a heart attack and severe hypoxia and another sleep study and within that type was diagnosed with apnea and am on CPAP within that time I had lost 25 pounds. So give up on the weight thi...

chunkyfrog wrote:Not even that. Just use your cpap.

Chunkyfrog, you already know the deal.

I hear you. It's been very hard for me too. I have not slept for more than 4 hours on a Cpap. I've tried 4 different masks. But I think that there could be other things going on for many of us. For me, I have a doctor appointment. My issues goes beyond what this forum can do for me.

ChicagoGranny wrote:"It's not the size of the neck on the outside. It's the size of the airway in the neck." - Dr. Mack Jones

So there's nothing you can do about size of the airway except lose weight?

So when a doctor looks down your throat and thinks you have OSA, what is he looking at? Just amount of room in the airway?

Also why isn't liposuction in the neck a recommended surgery if it is the fat tissues causing the obstruction?

Whenenver I do a google search, I ask what the cause and effect relationship is between weight gain and sleep apnea and what seems to come up is how there is a correlation and how losing weight could completely eliminate symptoms of sleep apnea. And I don't doubt it, but I'm failing to find out what...

Until you put away the excuses, you aren't ready to try. Only you can decide if you can do anything, you must make the decision to succeed, telling the world and yourself you are trying, or have tried, doesn't get the job done. First you must be true to yourself. Nothing can be accomplished if your...

Please do not get philosophical with me. It's not needed.

Enchanter joined the forum in April 2015 and has 703 posts. Enchanter is asking questions about events. It's time for Enchanter to step up and post sleepyhead charts. Except with the Mask, I don't sleep (NONE) so what difference would it make? Why is it impossible for some to understand? What I don...

Sonnyboy wrote:Re: "Except with the Mask, I don't sleep (NONE) so what difference would it make?"
This might provide an idea of what is happening when you are wearing your mask with the machine turned on.

It said 18. But most of the time it says 0. But again, I don't sleep.