Water drips from my Amara mask.

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Water drips from my Amara mask.

Post by Myron2colo » Wed Dec 17, 2014 7:53 am

Hi every one,
I am new to the forum but have been a CPAP user since Mar 19th 2012.
As with many I struggled to find a good working system for sleeping, for me it took about a year.
For the last year year I have been using the Amara size med, with the Resmed S9 H5i and heated hose.
Yesterday I cleaned my mask hose and water tank.
Last night I was startled awake with water dripping from my mask. This happened several times, the first time I I removed the mask from the hose and let the machine blow.
But the problem kept returning.
My machine was not overfilled, the humidifier is set at 70 and nothing in my routine has changed.
Last night because of the disrupted sleep I thought the machine was blowing harder but I wasn't sure if that was normal or not.

Help me sleepy-wan-kenobi you're my only hope.

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Re: Water drips from my Amara mask.

Post by Pad A Cheek » Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:06 am

Myron,

My guess is that the temperature in your bedroom in contrast to the temperature of the air from your CPAP is causing rain out or condensation. I do not know what the heated hose should be set on to eliminate this, but that is where I would start experimenting.

Water comes from either the humidifier or from your exhaled breath. If you can fix the temperature difference, you will prevent the rain out.

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Re: Water drips from my Amara mask.

Post by JeffV » Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:07 am

Mask rainout is something I've been fighting with myself. My first recommendation is to make very sure that your hose gets completely dry before you hook it back up. Once it's hooked back into the system it can't evaporate to the outside air, and your heated hose will have trouble dealing with liquid water already in the tube. It'll blow along the hose and settle wherever gravity lets it settle. Depending on how you have your hose laid out, some of that could very well be in your mask. (It certainly was with mine - I think I woke up three times that night with water dripping down my face.)

The other thing I've run into is rainout at the mask level, which a heated hose can help with but can't always resolve completely -- Especially in winter. Check out the second post in this thread. It deals primarily with rainout in nasal pillows (which is what I had), and I'm not sure how well it will apply to FFM but it's a good start. (For my pillows, I picked up a Pad-a-cheek barrel cozy and it fixed me right up. Thanks Karen!!!)

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Re: Water drips from my Amara mask.

Post by Pugsy » Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:41 am

JeffV wrote: The other thing I've run into is rainout at the mask level, which a heated hose can help with but can't always resolve completely -- Especially in winter. Check out the second post in this thread. It deals primarily with rainout in nasal pillows (which is what I had), and I'm not sure how well it will apply to FFM but it's a good start. (For my pillows, I picked up a Pad-a-cheek barrel cozy and it fixed me right up. Thanks Karen!!!)
The principle is the same no matter which mask a person uses and get rain out in the mask...gotta warm up the air in the mask somehow. In this situation that OP has...the temperature used is 70 degrees. Should be fairly simple to just increase the temp of the air in the hose so that it stays a little warmer at the mask level. Might not need much...maybe just a couple of degrees. All depends on how much cooler the bedroom might be and how long it takes for that air in the mask to cool down to the point of releasing the moisture.

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Re: Water drips from my Amara mask.

Post by SGearhart » Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:59 am

I've had the problem you describe once. It was the only time I cleaned my hose and didn't thoroughly dry it out before use. It taught me not to get a major case of the lazies when I wash it.

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Re: Water drips from my Amara mask.

Post by Julie » Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:14 am

Make sure the machine/humid. is situated at a lower level than you are... water can't run uphill, but will run into your mask if the machine's higher.

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Re: Water drips from my Amara mask.

Post by jdj1947 » Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:10 pm

I don't heat my water. I keep the humidifier vat full but I just pass room temperature air across it. I never have dry mouth. That might work for you. It may not be for everyone.