Sensory Issues with C-Pap

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HELP! I've been through 6 masks. I've been trying for 5 weeks to sleep through the night with the C-pap and have only made it three nights. I've had weekly help from a respiratory therapist and also a physician's assistant. I have to keep it on for a solid month before my sleep doctor will see me, because she needs to examine the records. I pull the mask off during the night and do not remember doing it. I feel at this point that this has to be an autistic sensory issue. What to do?

Thanks for your response, Maggie. I actually started reading up on surgery and considering that an option today. I tried to sign up for a cpap support forum on-line but it will take them a while to approve my membership. I don't know how long. I'm feeling frantic and worried.

I'm going to be doing a sleep study using the equipment at home, and hope that I don't end up doing this. Umm.. there's always duct tape I suppose! Good luck, I hope sleep gets better for you.

I hope I could help, but cannot. I have never tried c-pap. Instead, losing weight has helped me.

My husband pulls his off a lot too. He even has a chin strap on his.He has sinus allergies and says that makes it harder to use it at all.

I used ot wear a C-pap machine and had the full face mask. They tried the nose mask, but I do not like things up my nose, so I went for the full face. i got used to it after a couple of months, but in hot weather it is very uncomfortable, especially when i do not like the feel the weight of sweat and the mask on my face. Good luck with it all.

Thanks for all of your responses. A respiratory therapist has come out every week to fit my face mask, as it either leaked or was so tight it left marks. I even clipped a barette around the mask strap into my hair and somehow took that off in my sleep, without remembering. We've tried everything.

I think if a surgeon says my particular case of sleep apnea is due to my uvula, I might go through with the surgery.