12-05-2023, 06:00 PM
New User - Advice greatly appreciated.
Diagnosed with Moderate OSA (17.7 AHI) after years of just being tired (sleeping 12 hours a day) and antidepressants not working at the help of my psychiatrist.
I got my device in Mid-November and unfortunately wasn't really helped at all when I was given it (was given the wrong size mask and no mask options told 'if you can't breath through that you can't breath through your nose here take a full face - that was then too small). Lots of trial and error and 3 masks and after bugging the doctors office for help I finally found some success with Nasal pillows!
I am getting almost no leakage, events are low and not having problems with waking up with my mouth opened (I think it happened once since I've gotten the pillows?)?
I am however, constantly waking up, like almost ever hour and it is driving me crazy. It was happening the whole time with the masks that didn't work right/ were uncomfortable but now I'm comfortable / not bothered by the mask however I'm constantly waking up (and in turn it's somehow harder to fall back to sleep vs initially at night). This is all new for me, prior to the CPAP I never work up at night to a conscious level so this is all new.
Right now I'm just powering through it. Made myself use it for 4 hours a night minimum last week, 4 hours 30 mins this week, etc just working it up. But I feel like if I were to just leave it on all 8 hours I'd never get any sleep with the constant waking up and not getting back to sleep.
What else should I be trying? Any tips would be appreciated it on how to adjust / get used to it. Happy to answer any questions and I added the last few days since moving to the new mask from OSCAR data as well.
I got my device in Mid-November and unfortunately wasn't really helped at all when I was given it (was given the wrong size mask and no mask options told 'if you can't breath through that you can't breath through your nose here take a full face - that was then too small). Lots of trial and error and 3 masks and after bugging the doctors office for help I finally found some success with Nasal pillows!
I am getting almost no leakage, events are low and not having problems with waking up with my mouth opened (I think it happened once since I've gotten the pillows?)?
I am however, constantly waking up, like almost ever hour and it is driving me crazy. It was happening the whole time with the masks that didn't work right/ were uncomfortable but now I'm comfortable / not bothered by the mask however I'm constantly waking up (and in turn it's somehow harder to fall back to sleep vs initially at night). This is all new for me, prior to the CPAP I never work up at night to a conscious level so this is all new.
Right now I'm just powering through it. Made myself use it for 4 hours a night minimum last week, 4 hours 30 mins this week, etc just working it up. But I feel like if I were to just leave it on all 8 hours I'd never get any sleep with the constant waking up and not getting back to sleep.
What else should I be trying? Any tips would be appreciated it on how to adjust / get used to it. Happy to answer any questions and I added the last few days since moving to the new mask from OSCAR data as well.
