I took your comment to heart and tried a longer piece of tape to make sure I got the corners really well. But today's chart looks identical to my previous chart. Tonight, maybe I'll put one horizontal over my lips, and two verticals at the ends to secure it even better to see if that makes any diff...

In my opinion it's tape job failure... big mask leaks like that tend to wake you up. Also, the profile of tapering up to leak plateau is a tape job fail IMO. The tape is still in place... it just leaked from a corner. Test your tape job in the morning by puffing against it. All IMO.

That makes a lot of sense, so turn of the Auto portion of the machine? (snip) Yes... sorta. The pressure will climb to fight Flow Limitations... it's not going sky high, but less variables now the better. IMO you're over-treating... what with those CA's and CSR. Baby steps... just turn off EPR and ...

(snip) Last night I was exhausted and I was able to wear it for the whole night for the most part. Still woke up here and there but I noticed CSR in my Oscar data this morning and am freaking out a little. (snip) Yep, that would freak me out too. I also see lots of CA's, not so many hypopneas, only...

Does any one have tips... or products...on how to get clear nasal passage ways? (snip) I do nasal irrigation occasionaly. People hate me for this... but I can recommend Afrin. There is nothing like it that works as good... in fact, it's too good... I'm addicted, been using it for decades. I buy the...

New user - 44 days in. Its gone mostly well... Until last night. I kept waking myself up or startling myself if just zoning out to sleep with air escaping my mouth. I haven't had any issue with that since night 1 or 2. Most of it seemed to be just out of a corner of my mouth, like Popeye. So 42 suc...

Somehow I totally missed this response. Ironically I've learned a lot what you said here in the past month and things have improved. Not as good as I was doing in the beginning, that was the OSCAR chart with the 0.69 AHI I had initially posted, but better. I was on BiPAP because I wasn't able to to...

My next step is going to be to try using a smaller piece of tape over the center of my lips to see if I can get away with a more minimal "non-hostage" taping format. :) See that rising leak thing at 05:20? That's mouth leaking, your tape job failed I believe. You were having some nice REM and got t...

(SNIP) I struggle to breathe at night because my nasal airways just feel so narrow, it’s worse at around 3AM and during REM sleep which is when most of my night sweats start. I just thought it was a blood sugar crash from adrenal fatigue but i now know better. I also get nasal congestion every nigh...

I hadn't looked at my OSCAR data until now. And now that I have had a chance to look at it, it is clear that the mouth taping did work for most of the night. (snip) Again, for those that are long time mouth tapers, how do you deal with things that cause discomfort or inconvenience when your mouth i...

There is no AirCurve 11. There is now. Aircurve 11 was probably always planned but perhaps enough people are using Airbreak to add functionality. Resmed can probably phase out the 10 now. How long did it take for the 9 to phase out or was that not sold alongside the 10? When I went in for my recent...

I had a skin injury the other day from Cover Roll removal (I did fold the corner). This morning I tried wetting the tape before removal... this works really well... just let it be wet for a minute or two, then start working the jaw and lips. You can feel the water soak through, then it removes easily.

Guessing your machine takes 24 volts like my Resmed AS10. That's basically two car batteries in series, 12v each. You'll need to have those batteries charged up... you can parallel them to charge them if they're decently matched (e.g. brand new). Amazon sells 7ah batteries that will give you 1 amp f...

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:30 pm

vandownbytheriver wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:11 pm

At any rate your machine is set to 4-20 wide open.

No it is NOT set to wide open. You are incorrect. Please see my response above.

Thanks for the clarification... I was looking at the initial settings... which *are* 'wide-open' and not something to run with for a while.

So I kept the settings the same last night. Had to get up to pee and didn't feel like I was able to sleep well past that point. Machine went down to 4 again because of the ramp setting, and for some reason my mouth would fill up with air at times even though I had it taped up. AHI went up a bit and...