chefmate wrote:No improvement after 2 weeks of Apap therpay. none. not even an ounce. I feel even more tired for some reason because of all the adjustmets I have to make to get used to cpap mask. I am going to return this Apap and maybe ask my doctor to prescribe a mandibular device.
As others have asked: What's your purpose for posting to this cpap forum?
If you want help learning how to make this crazy therapy work, then you've come to the right place. But you're going to have to tell us what specific things you need help mastering.
If you want someone to tell you: "Yes, go ahead and give up because CPAP sucks", you've come to the wrong forum. While there are "sleep apnea" websites that are full of horror stories about how bad CPAP therapy is, this is NOT one of those sites. (And almost all of those sites with CPAP horror stories are pushing snake oil solutions that are known to NOT be effective for folks with moderate to severe OSA.) This site is a cpap users
support site. Almost all of the longtime posters here are committed, long term PAP users, and we see our job as
helping new CPAPers through the difficult first few weeks and
months when CPAP adjustment problems are everywhere and the new PAPer often feels far worse than before they started PAPing. And many of us took far more than 2 weeks to learning how to sleep with our machines.
But we did NOT just give up after 2 weeks.
If you just want to whine about how hard PAP is, you've done that. A lot of us have been there and done that too. So now that the rant about how hard everything is, it's time to face the facts and make some decisions: If you want help making CPAP work for you, stick around and start asking questions about how to make this therapy work. If you want to quit CPAP and you don't want to be nagged about how bad of a decision that is in the long run, then you'll probably want to find an alternate place to go to talk about your problems with apnea.