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Date Posted: Sunday, May 08, 03:48:34am
Author: serengety
Subject: Can any of y'all help me with this oddball problem?

Fair warning--this question is completely off the wall, has nothing to do with books and I'm sorry if anybody feels that this is not the place to ask it. But I have inquired repeatedly in all the proper places and am recieving no information that has been of any help what-so-ever.
I suffer from a sleep disorder and as a consequence am cronicaly exhausted, in pain and in a perpetual fog. In an attempt to address this problem I was perscribed a CPAP machine (continuous positve airway pressure). I have tried so hard to use this darn thing (an expensive little item it was, too), but it is so incredibly uncomfortable that it is actually keeping me awake more, rather than allowing me to sleep more restfully as it is supposed to. Being a side sleeper (a position I have no choice over as it is a necessity), the mask digs into my skin as it is simultaniously pushed sideways on my face, allowing air to escape and thereby allowing my airway to collapse again. I have tried tightening the straps on the mask to hold it tighter to my face, but that merely causes it to dig in even more and does nothing to address the problem. And the sleep doctors and techs just keep telling me to readjust the mask even though I have told them this does NOT work.
Folks, I am getting desperate. I'v been getting no more than a few hours of atrocious quality sleep nightly for months now. I am now at the mental state where I find myself staring at the keyboard wondering what I am supposed to press next.
So I am bringing this problem to my fanspeak chums, one of the most diverse and knowledable groups I know of. Do any of you inventive folks out there have some viable ideas on how to make a CPAP mask fit at least comfortably enough to actually be able to fall asleep in it?
Thanks.

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