About how long to adjust to sleeping with CPAP?

[quote="InnerGlow"So how long did it take you to adjust to sleeping with your CPAP? Should this be getting easier or am I just too impatient?[/quote]

Sleeping with it? - 2 days.

Getting benefit from it? I'll get back to you some year....maybe

It took TWENTY masks before I had one that I could wear every night.
Each one hurt a different place, so I switched to let my face/nose heal.
One mask blew so much air into my eyes, that I wore SWIM GOGGLES to bed.
OK, I WIN! But I DID NOT QUIT--so I win DOUBLE!
There is my challenge: if the annoying frog can do it, why not you?

MaxINTJ wrote: Sleeping with it? - 2 days.

Getting benefit from it? I'll get back to you some year....maybe

A negative attitude about your CPAP therapy (or anything you do in life) generally produces negative results.

Practicing meditation and/or relaxed visualization may help to improve your attitude ... unless of course you take a negative attitude towards that too, in which case it would likely do you more harm than good.

Oh well. At least most everyone else wants their therapy to work.

chunkyfrog wrote:It took TWENTY masks before I had one that I could wear every night.

First mask I got (I researched ahead of time) was comfortable enough to wear all night every night.

DreamStalker wrote:A negative attitude about your CPAP therapy (or anything you do in life) generally produces negative results.

Practicing meditation and/or relaxed visualization may help to improve your attitude ... unless of course you take a negative attitude towards that too, in which case it would likely do you more harm than good.

If I had trouble getting used to CPAP, or if I had insomnia, those techniques would probably work well.

I'm not sure how well they would work for physical problems.

DreamStalker wrote:Oh well. At least most everyone else wants their therapy to work.

Actually, I do want it to work, and I have had some signs that it *can*, but it's not.

Currently the situation would be like if I went to a doctor with a broken leg and the doctor said "We can fix your broken leg (with an Amara View), but it's going to break your arm (neck, back issues)."

What kind of choice is that?

And YES, I'm very grumpy!