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Check the connections on a heated hose if you have one...try cleaning with a pencil eraser. Then wipe the connections clean after.
Hope this helps.
DaveL
compliant for 35 years /// Still trying!
I'm just a cpap user like you. I don't give medical advice. Seek the advice of a physician before seeking treatment for medical conditions including sleep apnea.
I'll check the hose connection, I've probably pulled it out a little tossing and turning.
It's just weird that the F30 has been working for me fairly well, random bad nights here and there are expected, and now I've had almost two weeks of terrible leaks even with nightly adjustments.
I have ordered new headgear, maybe that will help.
12-06-2022, 01:39 PM (This post was last modified: 12-06-2022, 01:40 PM by DaveL.)
RE: Brazen Therapy Thread
I tried the F30i. I wasn't claustrophobic at all. However, my AHI>high.
Saturday night I used my F&P Evora Full full face mask. I got tangled in the hose. Mid-evening get-up I ended up with the machine on, hose pulled out of the mask, and mask insert out of the frame. Even so my AHI was 1 after 5 hours of use! So there's (a little bit of) hope.
DaveL
DaveL
compliant for 35 years /// Still trying!
I'm just a cpap user like you. I don't give medical advice. Seek the advice of a physician before seeking treatment for medical conditions including sleep apnea.
Hi Dave
I do have the Evora FFM. I had great luck with it the first two nights and then things went sideways. (Leaks!)
I tried it again a few nights back, because of all my troubles with the F30, and I woke up in the middle of the night with my mouth open under it. Didn't even know that was possible!
It's too expensive to keep trying different masks when they are all terrible.
It should not be so difficult to get a good night's sleep.
12-06-2022, 02:06 PM (This post was last modified: 12-06-2022, 03:55 PM by EddyDee.)
RE: Brazen Therapy Thread
(12-06-2022, 01:45 PM)Brazen Wrote: It's too expensive to keep trying different masks when they are all terrible.
So sorry you're having this trouble.
I'm not in the US, but I understand there are online providers who will let you try out masks risk-free for up to a month. Would that help?
I've done that too! Tried to wear the Evora Full much higher.
There's a really good primer on adjusting masks somewhere here. The fellow who wrote it changed my life, I was so successful when I followed his way. Then I forgot....I wish I had a link.
IIRC he says that success comes from minute adjustments, one at a time. And checks to make sure that the mask is on symmetrical. In other words the straps are the same length on the left and right side of my face.
Good to share information. Thanks
DaveL
DaveL
compliant for 35 years /// Still trying!
I'm just a cpap user like you. I don't give medical advice. Seek the advice of a physician before seeking treatment for medical conditions including sleep apnea.
I think the only ones who hurry to make snap judgements are the sleep staff who determine whether we have sleep apnea
My first sleep test I slept just long enough to be awarded the severe sleep apnea prize
I’m glad your evening was better. Predict you are on a roll.
Hope this helps!
DaveL
DaveL
compliant for 35 years /// Still trying!
I'm just a cpap user like you. I don't give medical advice. Seek the advice of a physician before seeking treatment for medical conditions including sleep apnea.
(12-06-2022, 05:29 PM)Brazen Wrote: EddyDee - Thanks for the sympathy.
I'm not familiar with any service like that. Maybe someone can point me to one?
Not being in the US, I've never had occasion to use them, but from what I can see, suppliers #1 and #18 on the supplier list seem to offer 30-day mask trials. Maybe others do too.
