CPAP failure

You may have to just bite the bullet and force yourself to tolerate a machine wvwn if the doctor has to give you something for anxiety. As you drift off to sleep, maybe use it as a breathing meditation to calm your mind. Everything goes hand in hand. With more oxygen to the brain, you will have more energy during the day to be able to walk around and get the exercise you need to lose the weight, your circulation will be better and your metabolism may be better. And if you can breathe, your blood pressure will start to go down too and things will just snowball for you in weightloss. My husband just had a stroke, and was now put on a machine. Now that he has oxygen flow in his body, everything is just getting better and better. It was not a stroke that caused major damage, but a "wake up call." Also, a "diet" doesn't always work - but learning healthy eating habits does. There is way too much salt and antibiotics in our food. If all you did was stopped eating fast food, stopped eating canned food and sodium laced tv dinners and just ate fresh stuff as much as possible, you could be eating just about the same things and you would notice the pounds begin to shed. I am not trying to sound critical, just hate to see someone have to go through a "wake up call" like my husband did if they can avoid it. I have never heard of an OPAP but if you can't stand the air going up your nose, you may not like it going down your mouth either. Or what about getting a mask for your cpap that goes over both mouth and nose? they make them.