Pugsy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 11:51 pm
Ask and ye shall receive.
You have options like that in full face masks.
Yeah I had a look through hybrids before reading this, none of them seemed to get great reviews. I guess as they are a compromise, ok at both but not great at either perhaps.... not sure.
These are the nasal pillows I been trying
https://www.cpap.com/productpage/fp-bre ... k-headgear
They are sooooooo much harder to breath against than my F20 full face mask.
None the less I got 6 hours in last night, AHI 0.9. I would have prefered to not wake up at 10 to 6am, oh well.
It seems if Im not on my back, the only apneas I am having are central apneas. And only a few per night. If Im in a 3/4 on side toward back, thats when I get hypopneas.
So I have 3 pillows, 1 small one, 1 head support one, 1 normal shape, all of them are that lovely soft material like memory foam but better. Last night I just use the head support, even though I didnt sleep on my back, I just had my head on the edge of the pillow. Seemed to work.
The FnP simplus mask is tiny in comparison to the f20 which goes from my chin to between my eyes, but partially due to I think I should have a Med not Larg. It does have a forehead strap which is either a plus or a minus, but share size of the pillows only goes to bridhge of knows, so wouldnt have pillows pressing on my puffy orbital areas....
4.5/5, is the best reviews Ive seen on a mask. I might ask to try one......
https://www.cpap.com/productpage/fisher ... -face-mask
Also for a nasal mask the Eson 2 seems pretty good, much much better head gear to stop me pulling it off in my sleep lol
https://www.cpap.com/productpage/fisher ... -cpap-mask
Most nights are almost uneventful AHI sub 0.7 etc, but one night which I had the mask on 8 hours (full face), AHI 8.9 eeek. Was mostly all Clear Airway in Oscar, but also a lot of "Cheyne Stokes Respiration" as well. So good to know it helped me that night. Clear Away obstructions I presume would be Central Apneas in the machine? Does the machine help with Clear Airway obstructions, i mean if its clear, and your brain has stopped you breathing, how does the machine tell your brain to start breathing again?
So, my next step is to try sleeping on my back for first time in years, supposedly its better for the back, I have 4 lumbar herniations and often wake up with one that has moved a mm and pressing more on the spinal cord, giving me more pain that normal, usually in the legs etc (until I stand that is).
A lot of info. So thank you to everyone who had replied and helped me on this journey. Most nights APAP seems overkill but for those AHI 8.9 nights, it could well be worth suffering the masks.......
Well Cheyne Stokes Resp doesnt sound wonderful haha, luckily it was a one night event, for some reason everything went wrong that night though
"Cheyne-Stokes respirations are a rare abnormal breathing pattern 1 that can occur while awake but usually occurs during sleep. The pattern involves a period of fast, shallow breathing followed by slow, heavier breathing and moments without any breath at all, called apneas."
Res: AirS10 Auto, HumidAir. ClimLineAir-Oxy, AirFit/Touch-F20 (also trialing FnP nasal pillows).