Frustrated wtih trying to get used to this ...

At this point I take it off as I CANNOT go to sleep with it on

Welcome Trixie. I posted the following on your other, same, thread, and have now moved it here.


I can think of one suggestion offhand: start out during the weekend, and don't take your mask off - even if it means not sleeping all night long. At this point, you're building a habit of "I have to take off the mask in order to sleep". That' easy to build, and hard to break. (It's called "avoidance learning").

So, if you do want to ever sleep with the mask on, you have to build a habit of "if I'm in bed, I wear the mask".
If you have to take off the mask, get out of bed, go to another room, do something quiet and relaxing, and return to bed only when you can put the mask on again. You have to be very firm about that: "no mask"="no bed".

Your husband was lucky to find adapting to the mask so easy. Many of us (myself included) slept less than before in the beginning, you're not alone in that, and don't let it worry you. Someone once wrote that she was "prescribed this new way of sleeping" - and that's what it is. A new way of sleeping.

Good luck!
O.

I saw the dr. yesterday, and after a somewhat heated argument got a few nights worth Lunasta (?). She told me that sedation made you relax more and that would influence the amount of pressure needed and so did not want to give it to me. I did not want to get the nurse in trouble so I said that I had heard that some people need this to get over "the hump".

I was not able to use the Lunasta last night as I got home to late. They say you need 8 hours and while I had exactly that, I didn't want to be groggy in the morning. So I will try that tonight.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I am going through them and trying to use the ones that feel best.

Trixielou