So Tired, I completely understand your dilemma. I have struggled with CPAP for almost 30 years. I most assuredly feel better when I can get in 4-6 hours with it but sleep so much better without it. I usually start with it on but sometime during the night, I pull it off. It has helped by switching to an automatic setting. I would highly recommend trying that. I do better with the nasal pillow mask. I have tried too many masks to count over the last decades and that is what I keep coming back to. I have also tried dental devices that I find on the floor when I wake. I have had several surgeries in the early days. It has been a lifetime struggle. However, I don't think I would be here today if I had not kept trying to use it at least some each night. I do play a beat my score game with the "MyAir" results from one night to the next. That makes me a little more compliant. All of that being said, there are new therapies coming and one such that has arrived which is known as Positional Therapy. This is not like the old pillows method that you really don't know if it works or not but an FDA Approved Positional Device that is put out by Phillips Respironics. My best advice: Keep on keeping on.
