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suggestions for success with pap

Posted by freebird on October 15, 2003 at 16:21:18:

Thanks for the input re: my ongoing struggle with sleeping with the bipap machine, insomnia etc. I do take meds to help with sleep, though I still wake up it seems. Anyway, from those of you who have had some success tolerating sleeping with the machine attached to your head etc, any ideas or suggestions you have for me as to how I can improve my tolerance for the bipap ( the mask I have is the only one I can use, I have tried others and I MUST have a full face mask) The hardest thing about the machine is that I can't stand how restrictive it is on my movement, it puts a lot of pressure on my sinuses, it is just in general so unnatural and cumbersome that I feel like a freak, not to mention the fact that although it may allow me to actually sleep in the technical sense, I do not feel like it allows me to sleep in the comfortable free way I did before life attached to a hose. I guess I should stop my pity party because at least there is a safe treatment that can put an end to the awful effects of untreated severe sleep apnea, however I guess I have "issues" with being attached to this gastly machine, and to having something over my mouth and nose, etc.
So, for those of you who have adjusted to sleeping with the machine and can go to sleep at night without dreading every part of it and can relatively comfortably make it through 5 or more hours with the machine, I would LOVE any suggestions or ideas or info as to what has helped you, what works well, etc, etc. There are probably a lot of things I have not yet tried or thought of that could possibly make this more bearable since I have little choice....THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

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