Need support

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Sleepy2011
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Re: Need support

Post by Sleepy2011 » Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:22 pm

I had my best night sleep yet...It wasn't great but it was better. I kept the mask on for over 9 hours without taking it off or getting up in the middle of the night and I did sleep.

Here what I did:
I spent about 5 minute in the bathroom mirror adjusting the mask to get a good fit. (I was just putting it on before)
Rinsed my mouth with biotene (helps with dry mouth)
I turned off the humidifier
Set the EPR to 2
Went back to an old pillow
Waited until I felt sleepy to go to bed

I recommend reading robysue's Taming the CPAP-Induced Insomnia Monster http://adventures-in-hosehead-land.blog ... er_19.html it helped.

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Re: Need support

Post by robysue » Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:25 pm

Sleepy2011 wrote:I had my best night sleep yet...It wasn't great but it was better. I kept the mask on for over 9 hours without taking it off or getting up in the middle of the night and I did sleep.

Here what I did:
I spent about 5 minute in the bathroom mirror adjusting the mask to get a good fit. (I was just putting it on before)
Rinsed my mouth with biotene (helps with dry mouth)
I turned off the humidifier
Set the EPR to 2
Went back to an old pillow
Waited until I felt sleepy to go to bed
Sounds like a good strategy! Hope it works just as well for you tonight as it did last night.
I recommend reading robysue's Taming the CPAP-Induced Insomnia Monster http://adventures-in-hosehead-land.blog ... er_19.html it helped.
Thanks for the compliment. I'm glad you found it useful.

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