Anyone else on CPAP for a sleep disorder?

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I've been given one for a 1 week trial to see if it will help my constant fatigue and hungover feeling. One of two home studies scored highly likely for mild sleep apnea, the second one came back normal but the consultant suspects an upper respiratory disorder or something like that.

The problem is I keep waking up after 2 hours and can't sleep with it on again. A week long trial isn't enough to get used to it either by the sounds of things.

How did you find it at first and how do you find it now?

I hate the bloody thing.

I trialed it for two weeks, and hates it by the end, and took it back shorter than the 1 month I was allowed to have it for.

I do have severe obstructive sleep apnea, where I get at least 300 (sometimes up to 500) episodes a night (when I can actually sleep for long enough). It wasn't the mask, I had a problem with, or even the noise of the machine, it was the air pressure.

I have COPD and bronchial asthma, I found the flow of air coming in, to much to breath against (imagine sticking your head out of car on the motorway, and the rush of air, and you'd have to turn your head or you'd stop breathing.... That was me on CPAP!).

Get a auto-PAP. It only blows very gently until it senses an apnea event and then it increases the pressure until your airway reopens. I just got a Phillips Dreamstation Auto and it is much less intrusive than my old CPAP.

I tolerated my old unit but this one is much nicer.