How longdoes it take to get into cpap treatment

[pazza46]

Hi

Been on treatment for nearly two months finding everything ok,I can wear the mask ok and the machine is ok too. But I have not found an improvement in my sleep. It's better then it was. But not really feeling refreshed when waking up. I work nites don't know if that the cause of me not feeling any better. Or I'm one of the those persons takes a long time to get into it.

[archangle]

You may or may not "get better." Many people do, but it takes time.

If you have apnea and don't treat it, you are likely to get worse over time. Apnea tends to do damage to your heart and other organs over time. Even if you don't "get better," you may stop getting worse.

You may have gotten used to being tired all the time from your apnea and fallen into "tired" habits. You may not notice how much you've improved until you break your tired habits and start doing things again.

[Pugsy]

You are using the ResMed Escape? Unfortunately it doesn't offer any meaningful data to look at and maybe get an idea if the therapy is even optimal. This is the first thing we usually suggest that someone on cpap therapy do if they aren't feeling as good as they think they should. Gotta make sure that therapy is the best it can be before we can even hope to feel better.

Since you don't have that ability and have to go on how you feel then take a hard look at your sleep.
How many hours of sleep do you normally get? I know night shift is hard. When you do sleep do you wake up frequently?
Do you have trouble falling asleep or getting back to sleep if you wake up often? Do you feel the need to urinate during the time you sleep? Funny question you might think but sometimes that is indication of less than effective therapy. Do you take meds of any kind that could possibly affect how you feel or sleep? Pain? Bed comfort? Other health issues?

Sometimes even with the best of therapy there can be other factors affecting how we feel in general. Anything that messes with sleep is a suspect till proven otherwise. Sometimes it does just take some time for our bodies to heal from the damage done by OSA left untreated for however long it has been.

If you had a data capable machine and software you would have a head start on the detective work needed to see what might be going on.