Dry Mouth and Full Face Masks

I have a REMstar with a humidifier and have it cranked up to 4. 5 is the highest setting, but if I use it my face gets so moist that it is uncomfortable.

Despite the high humidity my mouth gets uncomfortably dry.

I am wondering if there is any "trick" to handle the dry mouth that you get from using a FF mask for therapy.

David, I hope you get your answer.

Even with my full face mask, I have dry mouth and have to take the mask off to drink water during the night. Nita

Same config here (Remstart AUTO, higher CMS range & f/f mask) & as of the past few nights I too have been geting a dry mouth.

My rationalisation is as follows ...

1) Over the past 2 weeks m nose has been abnormally stuffed up
2) I use a nasal spray before going to bed but often am waking & finding it so hard to breathe thru nose that I use mouth - if this is for any length of time I notice my mouth dries out a bit.
3) I have concluded it will stay this way until I work out (or get fixed) the reason for the nasal congestion.

My sleep clinic advisor suggested that if the mask leak rate was high then that might be a contributing factor.

Good luck

DSM

I was bothered with the extreme dry mouth for several months along with a dry throat..it actually hurt me to swallow the first couple times on awakening. I tried tape-chin-straps and all the numbers on the humidifier. It stopped immediately when I went from the Resmed Cpap and started with the Resmed Bi Pap. I still use the swift nasal cushions.
Barnaby

I was bothered with the extreme dry mouth for several months along with a dry throat..it actually hurt me to swallow the first couple times on awakening. I tried tape-chin-straps and all the numbers on the humidifier. It stopped immediately when I went from the Resmed Cpap and started with the Resmed Bi Pap. I still use the swift nasal cushions.
Barnaby

You just do not breathe through your mouth! That is the only
thing which has worked for me. I wear a Dental Device to keep
my mouth closed and do everything possible to keep my nose
holes open. I routinely drink one quart of water right before bed and have a
humidifier in my room (with water running down the walls), and
I still get cottonmouth. The best combination is a heated hose and
a good humidifier, but even on that dry mouth can occur. It takes
much, much longer to get water into your mouth mucus lining than
it takes to dehydrate it. Make sure you avoid mouthwash right before bed,
as the alcohol with aggravate the process. Try Nasonex and/or Flonase,
along with saline nasel spray all day long, and then some good
antihistamine and decongestant like Semprex-D. Plus I take
Echinacea right before bed. Anything!! to keep the nose holes open.
You might even try taping your mouth closed, once you can keep
your nose holes open. Look into a good nasal irrigator, and read the
labels of all your meds as one of them may also be drying you out.

That seems really strange to me - I use a FFM, am a constant mouth-breather, nad have never had a dry mouth problem. Maybe I'm the strange (or lucky!) one. It's probably the only CPAP-related problem I *haven't* had.