Newbie, First Sleepyhead post

PR,
What I mean by not tolerating is I am not getting rest when sleeping. I wake up too much, feel like I can't breath against the pressure, like I am working too hard to breath. I feel like ripping the mask off. Sometimes I lay in bed for an hour telling myself not to give up, to leave the mask on. I had a panic attack one night. In my case, because that gets my arrhythmias going, it is pretty miserable. Sometimes I can relax, so there are good times too. Intellectually, I believe it is like any other training, you have to keep practicing. Emotionally, I am struggling. What I discovered the night I took the pressure down, was it was not so bad. Sure, I got some OA, but I felt better about the night and felt more rested.

When I started with the prescribed pressures, my OA were about 1-2, but I was feeling worse, not better. So I guess I had to see what would happen at lower pressure. Now I know: OA was then 20% of my sleep test, so not bad, but not where I have to get to. But at least I had one night under my belt where I felt like, hey this in not so bad, I can do this. I will keep experimenting and go where the data tells me to go, I just decided to make what I felt (so I can keep going) as important as the data. So tonight I will take the pressure up a bit and see how I react.. and what the data is.