We got larger bedside cabinets after our last move. The problem at the time was my wife's hearing made even normal breathing sound like Darth Vader. I bought an 8 foot tube and moved it to the bottom of the cabinet and blocked the front with extra pillows. Unfortunately, she got the original Covid, ...

callen, I had two series of sleep studies. The first was weird because I had a mustache and when fitted for a nasal mask, they could never get a good seal, tightened it until I was in agony and couldn't sleep properly, then told me I was borderline apnic: go lose weight, no cpap. The second time I s...

Well thank you chunkyfrog and Respirator99 for your responses, and pardon me for being so slow getting back to y'all. I'm getting old and forgetful, and missed notifications that there were responses, and the email address I used needs updating. I'm still using the trusty S9, but recently it has giv...

Hi, again, Folks, Having used CPAP for about 20 years, I started using this forum intermittently to ask about small things, like mask comfort, leaks, rain out, full face vs nose, etc. Recently I've been watching Youtube videos about cpap in all its forms. I started seeing articles about sleep charts...

Hi,folks. Long time no speak. I looked at cpap.com to find out if they had the blower motor for a ResMed s9, which I have been using for probably 10 years. It gave me a message that its motor has reached its life expectancy, and I should ask a service technician about replacement. I expect he'll jus...

Hi there boys and girls, long time no write. I joined the forum in early 2006, and am on my 2nd cpap machine. (The first got too noisy.) I've been using a Resmed S9 with humidifier for probably the last 6-7 years, and I'm pretty happy with it. Nowadays after retirement, I've been traveling around a ...

Thanks, Ms G... I might give that a try on my UMFF. Last night, though for a change I taped my mouth and put on the ol' ComfortGel and slept like the dead. And the tape I used didn't irritate me (J&J paper for sensitive skin ... forget the actual name; hypoallergenic).

Thanks again.

Gidgie, could you elaborate on the application on moleskin onto your mask cushion? Does it actually seal, or just slow the leak down? Thin strips or fat? will it peel off the cushion without tearing it? Do you put it all the way around the edge or just in leaky spots?

Thanks a zzzzzillion!

I guess I'll call. The difference in price is small, so there isn't much incentive to push one over the other. I'll probably end up getting both eventually. No on ever commented about my post script asking about humidifiers and whether it helps keep a seal. I didn't get one prescribed with my origin...

Well, I'm back after searching on chdurie2's posts. How easy it is to go off on a tangent when you become a junkie hosehead! I only found maybe two instances of "if it has comfort..." in all that I read, and one may have been referring to the other, but no one has actually admitted to using a Comfor...

Yeah, I expected they were, but this is a pretty extensive forum. I'll search on your username and check it out. Thanks!

I've been reading all your wonderfully helpful comments for the past month, since I've become a hose head, and now would like to ask some specific questions. Has anyone had experience with the two masks I mentioned in the subject line, and could they comment on the relative comfort and seal they've ...

Ten years ago at my first cpap trial. I suggested to the tech that I could shave it off if it would make the seal work better. He said, Nahh! we'll get a good seal. Let's try this. Hmmm, let's try that. Hmm, how about maybe..." By the time he got a seal to his liking, I was in great pain and thought...

After the first night on my respironics I thought I'd been using my chest to lift a car. It was a lot of work to exhale completely. The next afternoon, I thought I'd try a nap with it on (I was so tired), and found that since I was being inflated with fresh air, I didn't need to completely empty my ...

If you can't find you can train yoruself, you might consider the DYI mouthpiece. It also works as a good training assist and training aid. DIY mouthpiece? Is this the "weld two boil and bite teethguard" method or is this a new one? I'd be interested in more info, sir. I have been using a nose mask ...