Enchanter wrote:Danbeck wrote: Now I do get to sleep somehow, but I don't sleep well. I usually fall asleep around 5 am and wake up around noon. I usually cannot fall asleep sooner. With the mask, it's even much more difficult. I will either not sleep 48 hours or I will wake up after 2 hours of wearing it. It's just that simple.
Two hours is better than nothing. As you do that every night, that 2 hours will get longer and longer. And eventually, you will be able to use it all night. Especially if you put it back on.
The vast majority of us spent weeks or months learning to sleep with our cpap mask. It wasn't easy. I had a few good nights in the beginning, but it took me 6 weeks to get more than 4 hours straight more than once a week. You have barely been at this. Don't assume you are different until it has been 6 months.
Come to think of it, since cpap has a high failure rate (mostly due to people not having ideal settings and ideal mask, and no support), a good portion of people quit. Then there is the chunk that sticks it out, finds help, and makes it work. There is probably a small group of people that do really well without any help. And then the group of people that cpap doesn't work for (but gave it a good try for many months, had help, and the settings were as ideal as possible).
Right now, you are in the first group, the huge group. In order to make it into the next group, you will have to keep at it. Keep in mind that you do not yet have the ideal mask or the ideal settings (since you don't know them yet). Kinda hard to have instant success. You are just going to have to have patience and perseverance.
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