Well I have been on my cpap for about 6 weeks now...and have gotten used to it, BUT the last few nights i have been waking up with my mask OFF!! I have no recollection of taking it off, so i am obviously doing it while i am still asleep (or at least not conscious enough to remember) Has anyone else done this and do yall have any advice as to how i can keep from doing this??? Any ideas would be much appreciated!

Amyd76 wrote:

Well I have been on my cpap for about 6 weeks now...and have gotten used to it, BUT the last few nights i have been waking up with my mask OFF!! I have no recollection of taking it off, so i am obviously doing it while i am still asleep (or at least not conscious enough to remember) Has anyone else done this and do yall have any advice as to how i can keep from doing this??? Any ideas would be much appreciated!

Hi Amy, it is interesting you should be asking this question as it wasn't long ago I read that someone else was having this same problem.  What was recommended was that you put a piece of your hair across the velcro attachment so that when you pull your mask off you pull your hair.  Enough that it hurts and wakes you up.  Or tie a rubber band to your hair and to one of the straps.  That would serve the same purpose.  Hope that helps.  Others might have other ideas also.   Good luck.



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REMstarplus, M Series with C-flex and heated humidification
C- Pap setting of 10
ResMed Mirage Quatro full face Mask
Sleep study showed 36 events per hour
Location, Nebraska

Thanks! I will have to try something like that tonight!  I thought i had saw another post with this issue but for the life of me i couldn't find it .... lol

Amy writes...BUT the last few nights i have been waking up with my mask OFF!!

What you describe is quite common, in fact.

Using my case as one possible example, when I would remove the mask get up or make an adjustment (or scratch) I would sometimes think that I'm not quite sleepy enough to fall back to sleep, so I'll put the mask on in a minute or so.  Inevitably, I would fall asleep an instant later.

So, for me, it was just a matter of re-donning the contraption before I do another thing.  As soon as that became my habit, I never awoke next to el masko again.  

It's totally common, and quite surmountable.

Good luck.


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I can relate ... for the first several weeks I had the mask on I would wake up in the middle of the night and experience something akin to a claustrophobic panic attack and I would tear the damn thing off my head and go back to sleep.

After the first hellish three months I switched from a full face mask to a ComfortGel Nose Mask, and my panic attacks ended.

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REMstarplus, M Series with C-flex and heated humidification
C- Pap setting of 10
ResMed Mirage Quatro full face Mask
Sleep study showed 36 events per hour
Location, Nebraska