Breeze down to one last problem to fix

[Guest]

I've been on CPAP Remstar auto -cflex New Breeze mask for a month now.

I'm finally sleeping with the mask and seem to be adjusting well. Took a month, but finally getting the hang of this.

I have one last problem and it's drving me so mad, I almost put my fist through the wall last night. The only thing waking me up at night still is the damn hose! With the breeze, the hose is not real stable over the top of the head, so it tends to slop from side to side. I've tried draping over my headboard, but when i roll over it makes this hideous load scrapping nose and the friction pulls the breeze mask loose. I've tried wadding it up behind the matress and leaving a little slack, but this eventually gets tangled up. I've tried stuffing it partly under my pillow, one wors for a short while. When the hose tension falls off, it pulls the mask sideways.

Any tips on where and how to place the darn hose so there is enough slack to roll around, yet not have the entire hose in the bed with you? I'm thinking of designing a rng of some sort with a clamp and stikcing it in the wall with enough slack to rool aound, yet hold the hose in place. This is the only thing still waking me up at night. I wake up flipping the damn hose around about 6 times a night. Sorry for the harsh words, but its pissin the hell out me. Feels like wrestling a damn snake while half alseep, lol.

[rested gal]

The only thing waking me up at night still is the damn hose! With the breeze, the hose is not real stable over the top of the head, so it tends to slop from side to side.

I fasten the Breeze's hose to the headgear on top with a little velcro strap (you could use tape or a twist-tie)...making the hose follow the headgear a little farther back than it would otherwise. The little extra strap keeps the hose in place on top the headgear almost exactly to the center top of my head. Prevents it from flopping off to the side of your head.

I've tried draping over my headboard, but when i roll over it makes this hideous load scrapping nose and the friction pulls the breeze mask loose.

A fleece hose cover (bought, or homemade) will cut down considerably on the scraping noise when the plastic of an air hose rubs across anything. You can buy hose covers online or, for a really quick, cheap fix, cut out the toes of some old socks and thread the hose through the socks. Use trash bag ties or velcro straps to keep the line of socks in place.

Using a hose cover (or the socks) will reduce the friction noise,but may or may not help keep the hose from getting caught on the headboard. More about that below.

Any tips on where and how to place the darn hose so there is enough slack to roll around, yet not have the entire hose in the bed with you? I'm thinking of designing a rng of some sort with a clamp and stikcing it in the wall with enough slack to rool aound, yet hold the hose in place.

What you're planning -- a ring affixed to the wall, with main air hose running through the ring -- is an excellent idea. That's very much like what a lot of us do, using an elastic pony tail holder (a "scrunchy") as the ring for the hose to go through.

You can fasten the scrunchy to the wall or to the headboard. Put it about a foot above where your head will be on your head pillow. One woman wrote about nailing a scrunchy to the back of her headboard so the nail wouldn't mar the front.

Doesn't have to be a scrunchy or a ring...could be a ribbon tied in a loop, a bungee cord, velcro loop, clamp... anything to run the main air hose through.

I don't have a headboard, so I screwed a swivel-arm plant hanger directly into the wall. The scrunchy hangs from that. Main air hose runs through the scrunchy. The swivel arm sticks out from the wall about 7 or 8 inches and the arm swings from side to side if I turn over. But just a simple ring or scrunchy attached to the wall would work as well. The whole thing is placed about a foot directly above my head.

Whatever method you come up with, picture yourself as being like a fish on the end of a slack line, able to turn all the way over, back and forth, freely. Place it that high on the wall or headboard.

Good luck!

Here's a clickable link to some more ideas:

Apr 15 2006 subject: Help! In Need Of Ideas For Attatching Hose To Wall Above Bed

[tomjax]

My APAP is head level on my nightstand- I do not use a humidifier, so no rainout problem. this leaves several feet for play.

I simply pull the hose as far as possible and put it behind my pillow between the headboard.

Itsoes not pull this was as it would if left to hang.
Some use a hanger divice, but mine works for moi.

[apneaicinisrael]

I have a headboard, and I use a soft cloth (actually, my husbands white sport sock) to tie the hose above my head. Then I pull most of the hose toward me, leaving just enough slack between the fixed point and the machine so as not to pull at the machine. Then I also use the space between my pillow and the headboard as storage space for the longer end of the hose, and that way when I flip around, which I do, it comes with me. So my hose is hooked upward, tied with a soft cloth, but there is not too much movement of the tied part, more the slack that lies between the pillow and the headboard.
There are lots of gimmicks, you'll surely find one that works for you. Good luck!
AII

[sir_cumference]

I've been doing the scrunchy thing for a long time now. I bought a couple and used tape to stick them to the back of my headboard. At night I hang the hose through them at the front of my headboard so that they don't pull over the back of the headboard.

The only issue I have is that sometimes when I turn over the end of the hose taps me on the head, but to be honest I don't really notice it anymore. In fact, I even take a couple of scrunchies and some tape with my on holiday so that I can set the hose up with them when I'm away.

In my opinion this solves the instability problem with the breeze and makes it the most comfortable mask I have tried by a long way. In fact, I now have the breeze extremely loose on my head with the inserts just one click away from leaking and still maintain very low overall leak rates.

Hope this helps
sir_c

[Snoozin' Bluezzz]

I screwed a swivel-arm plant hanger directly into the wall.

I have been looking for this locally. Where did you find it?

David

[rested gal]

Heyyy, Snoozin',

Today, while searching back for links to hose management topics, I came across this thread where you asked me a question. Sorry, I missed it back then. You've found the hanger by now, I think, but for others:

Plant hangers, including swivel arm designs, can usually be found at stores like WalMart, BigK (K-Mart), Target, Big Lots, Lowe's, Home Depot...places like that. Or any place that has garden supplies. Or a plant nursery. I think I got mine at WalMart, but it's been a couple of years ago, so I don't remember for sure where.