Need Help. Saliva Loosening Mouth Tape

[Uphold9887]

I'm struggling with this problem as well.

I'm currently using 4" Cover-Roll Stretch (Leukoplast brand? by BSN, Made in Germany). Each night I seem to drool and the saliva loosens the tape in one corner of my mouth, and then I wake up feeling like i've been struggling to breathe through the little open corner. Seems to very consistently interrupt my sleep after at least ~4h and the next 4h I'm waking up constantly. I do have a beard which I think is giving the tape a worse seal.

Not sure what brand of tape to try next... Really trying to avoid losing the beard if possible...

[DaveL]

I'm so pleased to see the posts here! Thanks for the hints.

Long ago I worked for 3M in Canada and I'm allergic to their tapes with solvent based adhesive. I suspect (but don't know for sure) that tapes that don't stick have water based adhesive. Way back they had a program, "pollution prevention saves" and swung some adhesives from solvent-based to water-based...and I'm ok with water based. I don't have the skill to read the labels to see if the products are water based.

Useless fact: they used to coat tape in 5 foot rolls!

[Uphold9887]

Anyone know which 3M tapes are solvent-based?

[DaveL]

When I was a faithful employee they referred to an ingredient in the adhesive as RM19....raw material 19. That was so we wouldn't somehow reveal what it took to make tape. I don't know how to read the code to see what's inside.
DaveL

[SevereApnea]

Hi Norman,

Yep, Fixomull here downunder.

I have stopped using this for the most part, it is great stuff, sticks well, easy to remove in the morning and I usually got 2 - 5 night use out of each strip.

I could never stop the leaks even with full mouth taping and using nasal pillows.

For me there is always some leakage around the nasal pillows whichever type/sort/size I use.

Full mouth taping made me very uncomfortable so I resorted to partial mouth taping.

(I managed to get near zero leaks with F30i full face mask but this caused other problems.)

I eventually got used to the leaks and average around 20 to 25 most nights even with no mouth tape.

Using a soft cervical collar helps to reduce the leak rate too.


btw I started end 2019 and only now am comfortable with where I am with CPAP (Vauto)

but that is another long story.

Stick with the Fixomull, I haven't found anything better.

Best,

Chris/ Perth WA