I have my bags packed for tomorrow night........soooo glad to find your letter tonight (here in the middle of the night and not sleeping, of course LOL). I feel better already.......maybe I can sleep a little now. Thanks so much!

I went off my machine after losing about 40lbs and I no longer need it Donna 338/171

that's exactly what i had to do. and i have bcbs so what i did was i borrowed that mask from my sleep clinic first for a week to see if i liked it because bcbs will only give a new mask every few months so i had to make sure it was what i wanted. then i returned it and the sleep clinic put through the order to my medical supply place.

It took me about 4 months to get used to it and all I can say is stick with it. I have a problem wher I shread the bed while sleeping, pull the covers off of the bed throw them in the floor, all the pillows gone, I have woke up with the cpap hose wraped around me fighting it. Ya I am not really a dream to sleep with. I did cure myself from taking it off by burrying my face in a pillow and I actualy reach over the bed rail and grab the rail and the head board with the other. It sucks but better than sleeping without it. My flailing has slowed down while I sleep which pleases my wife quite a bit.

I did that for two or three nights in a row. Now, and this seems really simplistic I know, I think to myself before I doze off that I can't take it off until it's light outside. I actually remember waking up twice a few nights ago, just about to turn it off (evidently I turn it off when I take it off), and thinking "no, it's not time." Plus, the cat get's really ticked if I do, because then I snore and wake her up. And she wakes me up. Repeatedly. I have the full mask because I'm a mouth breather, and it's got the humidifier in it. The hardest thing for me is adjusting the humidity every night because of the weather. If it's too much, I wake up, and if it's too little I wake up