sometimes you cannot eliminate all the snores, you have weigh the good with the bad, if you only needed like 8 cm pressure to eliminate the SDB you now are stuck with 15 cm in a failed attempt to eliminate the snores (bad idea). That's exactly what I'm afraid of. Well actually I'm afraid they'll wa...

Full-face masks just don't "get their due" in the industry, it seems. 90% of what I see is about nasal masks, and given the problems with "mouth breathing" and usage with a cold or sinus problems, problems which full-face masks eliminate entirely, I do wonder why full-face masks aren't mentioned mo...

Ah, thank you ozij. I feel better now. She didn't say anything about O2, and spoke as if BiPAP was undesirable. So yes, I think she probably needs some more experience. And in general I'd feel a lot better if there was some tangible evidence that a doctor was actually involved in the process. Now I ...

Oh yes, I am a mouth breather. When I lie down, at least. So I told her to go straight for the full-face mask (a Quattro) and for whatever reason my nasal passages slammed shut entirely when it was on -- that's something I'll have to work on later. Otherwise the leak rate was excellent, and I assume...

Hello all, great forum! I was titrated on Monday night, and the tech warned me that those who write the prescriptions will probably call me in for another round because she wasn't able to eliminate the signal on the snore track. She'd started me off at a relatively high pressure (I forgot to ask), a...