For the periods of time when you do have the mask on, is your apnea being effectively treated? You have a good machine with full treatment data available. You could get SleepyHead set up and post some of the data being recorded by your machine. It might be helpful if you could at least rule out sub...

Short answer - some people tape the mask to their face (straps on cheeks) at night so they'll awake when pulling it off and can rearrange it to go back to sleep. Long answer - you could see a neurologist specializing in sleep for your long term acting up... it's not at all unheard of, though in you...

Hello all! I'm 39 days on my CPAP machine and overall, things are a lot better than they were before. Sleep feels "restorative" once again and I am no longer waking up hourly to use the washroom. I've been able to sleep about 6 hours consecutively without any kind of medication (when I'm able to kee...

Was just recently diagnosed and I'm 28. If I had to make a guess, I'd say that I might have gotten a diagnosis when I was 22. The last few years have been really hard. I didn't understand what was happening to me and no doctor would take me seriously; just kept getting told I must be experiencing de...

I tend to have trouble breathing through my nose while sleeping so I've grown accustomed to breathing through only my mouth at night. That being said, I never considered nasal pillows all that much. I figured adjusting to CPAP might be easier by going with something more familiar than changing my br...

Hello! I am newly diagnosed with moderate OSA and I am currently waiting to be lined up with my DME to get geared. Thanks to you folks, I've been able to do a fair bit of research beforehand as how to best prepare. The only thing that I'm having trouble finding specifics on is how much length of fac...