Nose plug?

SO...I found out this weekend that the residual air leaking around that nasal pillow is coming from inside my nose. At the higher pressure, it's enough to force air out of that side of my nose, which then leaks around that N.P. (Just for reference, when the NP is unblocked air does not flow INTO that nostril. Weird, I know)
*sigh*
Last night i crammed a cotton ball in there and it shut everything up gloriously! But it wasn't exactly comfortable. I tried a foam earplug, but it was too long and not quite big enough around.
Do you think that the moldable wax ear plugs might be a better fit? Any other suggestions?

Worth trying the moldable ear wax stuff. I have never used the stuff so I don't know just how moldable it is.

This sounds like a fit problem to me. Air leaking around the nasal pillow comes from a gap in the fit. The mask (pillow) and your nasal cavity is pressurized according to what your machine settings are. If there is leakage, the answer is more likely a different size or style of nasal pillow / mask, not nose plugs, which interfere with the flow of air (therapy) you intend to get. I can't imagine that plugging up a nostril would be very comfortable.

What kind of pressure are you running?

The silicone ear plugs are very moldable, good for laying strips of them around a nasal pillow for leaks, and might be the answer. But speaking of nose plugs, how about the one that pinches the nose from the outside?

The swimmers nose plugs were excruciatingly painful for me, but now they make (wait for it)
SUGRU

chunkyfrog wrote:The swimmers nose plugs were excruciatingly painful for me, but now they make (wait for it)
SUGRU

I just sugru'd something over the weekend...

(bought some new cordless phones, and sugru'd a hard drive magnet to the back of the base of one, so I could stick it on the side of the fridge)

Everything is stuck to our fridge, including, among other things, a hammer, a bag of earplugs, and a doily.
The BIG hard drive magnets are somewhere else--you know, the ancient ones that will crush a finger if you're careless.

chunkyfrog wrote: and a doily.

I read that as "and a dolly", and thought to myself "what in the world are those frogs into????, wait, do I really want to know?"

It was in my hand, and I was too busy to trek it to the parlor.

chunkyfrog wrote:It was in my hand, and I was too busy to trek it to the parlor.

no dear, I read DOLLY, as in 'hand truck', you know, those things you move fridges with

only when I read it again did I see you said DOILY...

I''m a gadget nut, and thought I'd seen them all, but I gotta have some of that stuff!

herefishy wrote:I''m a gadget nut, and thought I'd seen them all, but I gotta have some of that stuff!

it's fairly new (just a few years now) and they're still coming up with more ideas about things to repair or improve with it