Breathing calmly to fall asleep, reading helps.

I often have problems falling asleep with CPAP on. (not a problem pre-cpap)

I listen to the machine, tring to match the breathing. to match the breathing. Turned off CFlex etc, just in case. I feel like the sound was like an eliptical sound.

I could not breathe normally to dose off. Even when I get towards sleep, I would breathe deeply again.

Counting backwards etc does nto help.

When I wake up during the night the machine is hardly making any noise. But when going to sleep my breathing and exhaling is so loud.

I just found that reading for a few minutes makes my breathing peaceful and I do not hear the machine loud after reading for a few minutes.

I then quickly turn off the light, and try to keep my breathing the same. It worked twice in a row, I fell asleep. I am so happy. LOL

I take anything positive as a major deal.

One day I will have it down pat.

I have my reading light hooked up to a timer so I don't have to lean over to turn off the light. The book stays where it falls. All I have to do now is get bendable glasses frames.

When I first started out a few months ago, I found myself trying to synchronize my breathing with my (C-Flex) machine. Of course the machine was reacting to my breathing at the same time. That caused me to take much deeper breaths than normal for no logical reason. It was sort of like what programmers call an infinite loop.

Once I finally learned to ignore what the machine was doing and started breathing more naturally, I started dropping off to sleep a lot faster.

OCO