CPAP is winning ...

[agoodwinsmith]

... and I'm losing the fight with the mask.

I've looked at other styles of masks, and I do think the one I have is a very good style and fit. I haven't seen anything better, and certainly nothing I want to spend $200.00 on - even if it is only Canadian dollars.

My issue is that I have something on my face and head, which I hate. I do not wear hats, scarves, hoods, tiaras, headbands, or tinfoil prophylactics. I do not like things on my head. Part of the issue is that I have a big head, so most things are too small and give me a raging cranky headache. The headgear I am using is not tight (great ability to adjust), but that means that the mask leaks air. I can sleep through the sound, but the rapid frequency vibration on my cheek is just a no.

So. I resolutely put it on my face every night, and now I am hardly coming awake to take it off. I still remember (vaguely) taking it off, and I am still justifying it to myself (gonna go pee, gonna blow my nose, gonna do some damn forgotten thing that will justify the removal of the mask) - and then just falling back to sleep. Sometimes I turn the machine off, sometimes I don't. When I reach the point where I have no recollection of removing the mask, then I will be doomed.

I have independent testimony (sleep over with friends at 18) that I am able to get up, walk across the room, turn off someone else's alarm, and go back to bed - and never even pause in my snoring.

So anyway - onward, ever onward. Hah.

Comments

[ranunculus]

An alarm on the machine sufficient to wake you up when you take off the mask? Might not work every night, but...
So sorry you are having these problems. A machine was absolutely transformative for Donald.

[agoodwinsmith]

I lowered the temperature on the humidifier (not hose) last night, and that seemed to help.

[supermouse]

If it's any consolation, this all sounds familiar. Pol eventually ended up fine with the mask but it took a long time.