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gracoy

Been using for a month now, and it feels like every day is getting worse not better

While the masks I’ve tried have been uncomfortable for a variety of reasons, I did initially have better sleep. But as time goes on I find that I am waking up more times in the night, taking longer to fall asleep (as I type this, I have been laying in bed with the mask on since 7pm, it is now past 1am and I gave up trying to sleep like 10min ago since I have to be up at 4 anyways), feeling worse when I do wake up, feeling more bothered and uncomfortable in the mask, fiddling with the mask for hours as I tighten and loosen and adjust and tighten again. And yes everything is clean and taken care of as instructed. It’s so baffling to me because the first few days were life changing, and it’s all been downhill since. On week 2 I got a new mask, I am now on mask number 4 with another appointment in a few days for another new mask.

All the stories I’ve read are the exact opposite experience, discomfort at first with relief once they get use to it, but my experience is the opposite. Only notable adjustment period was falling asleep night one because it was initially very strange and unnatural to breathe in. But the following morning I woke up feeling rested and normal for the first time since middle school. But last night I woke up and felt worse than I did before the CPAP. I’ve never skipped a night, I’m doing everything I’m supposed to. I even was able to keep the many masks and have tried a couple times to go back to the first mask, with no luck. I just don’t understand how or why I would have been doing so well just to suddenly not be able to tolerate it anymore.

Posted Sep 12, 2026, 8:31 AM UTC

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