Since my hip replacement I've had to spend a high percentage of my time sleeping on my right side. I've been an incurable mouth breather all my life, can't tolerate a chin strap, so need a nice soft full-face mask. After a couple of years of my complaining about standard masks, someone pointed me at...

Well, larry, I am likely a few miles off base, but one thing caught my eye. You say you snore loudly and continually, but your mask is a nasal pillow. But isn't the whole point of CPAP to get the pressure in there to stay? Is a nasal pillow going to do that if your mouth is constantly open with snor...

Based on my own experience, I suggest you may have a very small, subtle leak on the upper edge of your mask, and that the cold breeze is chilling your eyes and making them tear up a bit. Your mask is going to leak anyway, so about all you can do is try to adjust it so he leaks occur around the botto...

Hi, Sablerose, and welcome. I had my sleep study in Nov. 2005 and titration in January - a bitterly cold snowy night when I barely made it to the sleep lab. But oh! - was that study convincing. When I got up from my night in the mask I felt better than I had for a couple of decades. and couldn't get...

Elena, there's no way to tell if you were mis-diagnosed or simply given the wrong machine and/or wrong settings. But your results are so opposite to those of just about everyone else there is ground for suspicion. If your technician, doctor and insurance company will stand for it, perhaps you should...

I suspect the moderators here are going to get a bit tired of this thread - it is getting a bit away from cpap issues. If you want a place to talk political or economic theory, or just about anything else, the discussion board http://www.carnuts.ca may help. It's very automotive oriented, but the mo...

Isn't the internet wonderful? I got misled into paying an outrageous price for my regular cpap machine; the handy great big drugstore chain did point out that Ontario would pay half the cost, and my supplemental medical insurance (needed to cover the extortionate cost of medical services when I trav...

I'll go along with that. I've been on CPAP for years and years now. Yes, I'm still tired - but I'm 80 years old, with heart problems, COPD, a hip implant, broken back, and other problems. Oddly enough, after my first diagnosis and prescription, my respirologist has been sufficiently favourably impre...