How do you keep motivated

I know this is just gonna look like a vent post but if anyone has advice I’m all ears. Basically, I started cpap just a couple weeks ago and already I’m struggling big time.

I’m in my 20’s and before I started this, I told myself how lucky I was to be starting treatment now instead of in 20 years and how important it would be to stick to it. I read tons of people’s stories on this sub and was super motivated to get started and give it my all.

But man I am already drained. I’m barely keeping the mask on half the night and my sleep feels worse than ever. I’m even more tired all day and responsibilities are suffering for it. My home is a mess because I’m definitely not keeping up my end of the cleaning but I’ve been so tired every single day. I just switched from the nasal pillows to the nasal sling mask and it’s more comfortable but I still can’t keep it on more than 3-4 hours a night. I’m lucky if I can fall asleep in it at all and I’m waking up in the mornings feeling like I accidentally took too much Zzquil.

Idk it’s just getting really hard really quickly to keep up all that motivation I thought I had in the beginning. I keep telling myself it’ll get easier but it’s hard to focus on when I feel like shit half the day. Please tell me some of y’all went through this stage when you started

Posted Sep 3, 2025, 6:26 PM UTC

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