Mask making nose peal on each side...

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Jan63
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Mask making nose peal on each side...

Post by Jan63 » Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:54 pm

Ok!! I wear a resmed Quattro Fx mask.
I have acid reflux...I have acid in my mask when I wake up!
I clean my mask and face every night before
I go to bed...
I have never felt better in my life...
Problem I have been having face breakouts where the mask sits...and pealing of skin on each side of nose. I breath thru my mouth...so have to have full mask!!! I have a deviated Septum.. But doctor said only wanted to fix it if it was emergency!!!
So anyone else deal with acid coming up at night? I don't eat for 5 hours before I sleep!
The breakouts and the acid problem is messing with me!
I know a new bed!!! But I'm broke and on disability!
I already prop on 4 pillows and sleep facedown...yes!! I have issues!!
But if I sleep face down acid don't get in lungs...tried to get doctor to fix The hiatial hernia!! But they won't.oh I have Arthritis all over a bad back!!!so can't sleep on back!
Plus just had a total knee replacement on right knee!!! Yes it's hampering my sleep also!

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Re: Mask making nose peal on each side...

Post by Julie » Wed Sep 02, 2015 2:22 am

Have a little protein (bits of chicken, tuna, p.butter, etc.) closer to bedtime... after 5 hrs anyone's stomach will look for something to process and finding nothing will produce acid. Not a great idea (to not eat at all). I also find that just half a small Tums before bed goes a long way to keeping things quiet til morning.

Get the head of your bed up on 5 inch blocks/bricks and it should help with reflux a lot.

Get Padacheek.com liners to go under mask and prevent breakouts.

And btw, bells 'peal', skin 'peels'.

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Re: Mask making nose peal on each side...

Post by purple » Wed Sep 02, 2015 6:20 am

A Bi Level machine helped to end a problem like you are describing for me, a lot. Before that I took Prilosec (and there are later drugs which some say are better.) Also Gaviscon can help a good bit. Have you tried Simethicone? Neither Prilosec or Gaviscon are really inexpensive.

The problem with going to a Bi Level machine is that insurance companies do not want to pay for a more expensive machine, if they can connive their way out of it. Medicare says they will not pay for a Bi Level machine if the purpose is comfort. That one must fail CPAP before getting a Bi Level machine. Excepting some diseases, like MD/MS, where a Bi machine is the lowest machine they approve.

To be clear, a Bi Level machine might solve all your issues with Acid Reflux, without anything else. I think it should be titrated in a sleep lab, which as we all know, is the one night one gets very little sleep.

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Re: Mask making nose peal on each side...

Post by knothead » Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:10 am

Jan63 wrote:Ok!! I wear a resmed Quattro Fx mask.
I have acid reflux...I have acid in my mask when I wake up!
I clean my mask and face every night before
I go to bed...
I have never felt better in my life...
Problem I have been having face breakouts where the mask sits...and pealing of skin on each side of nose. I breath thru my mouth...so have to have full mask!!! I have a deviated Septum.. But doctor said only wanted to fix it if it was emergency!!!
So anyone else deal with acid coming up at night? I don't eat for 5 hours before I sleep!
The breakouts and the acid problem is messing with me!
I know a new bed!!! But I'm broke and on disability!
I already prop on 4 pillows and sleep facedown...yes!! I have issues!!
But if I sleep face down acid don't get in lungs...tried to get doctor to fix The hiatial hernia!! But they won't.oh I have Arthritis all over a bad back!!!so can't sleep on back!
Plus just had a total knee replacement on right knee!!! Yes it's hampering my sleep also!
Jan the breakouts may be caused by the acid in your mask, try and raise the head of your bed 5-6 inches. This is what I had to do to stop my re-flux, my Dr said that just propping up on pillows wont work. I have a heital hernia too and take generic meds for it going on 17 years. Raising the head of the bed has helped a bunch, but if you slide down to the foot of the bed it may be too high...lol.

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Re: Mask making nose peal on each side...

Post by LSAT » Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:44 am

purple wrote:A Bi Level machine helped to end a problem like you are describing for me, a lot. Before that I took Prilosec (and there are later drugs which some say are better.) Also Gaviscon can help a good bit. Have you tried Simethicone? Neither Prilosec or Gaviscon are really inexpensive.

The problem with going to a Bi Level machine is that insurance companies do not want to pay for a more expensive machine, if they can connive their way out of it. Medicare says they will not pay for a Bi Level machine if the purpose is comfort. That one must fail CPAP before getting a Bi Level machine. Excepting some diseases, like MD/MS, where a Bi machine is the lowest machine they approve.

To be clear, a Bi Level machine might solve all your issues with Acid Reflux, without anything else. I think it should be titrated in a sleep lab, which as we all know, is the one night one gets very little sleep.
I don't understand how switching to a bi level machine will stop acid reflux.

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Re: Mask making nose peal on each side...

Post by Jan63 » Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:01 pm

Thank y'all for all the help! I will try all!! Anything is worth a try ..called my cpap people ..got a new mask today!! It's a Amara View .by Philips respironics ..talked about raising the bed at top...will see how tonight goes!!! Thank you!!!

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Re: Mask making nose peal on each side...

Post by chunkyfrog » Wed Sep 02, 2015 5:10 pm

LSAT wrote: . . . (Snip)

I don't understand how switching to a bi level machine will stop acid reflux.
Sneeze into your adult beverage; you could get beer in your eye--same principle, kind of.
---Actually, the bipap will lower air pressure in the airway, (during exhale) helping prevent "splashes".

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