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- Thu Jul 03, 2025 8:44 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Stomach Sleep - best sleep ever, but shoulders destroyed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 70
Re: Stomach Sleep - best sleep ever, but shoulders destroyed
(NOT my mouth, but my jaw drops)...is there a sensible solution to train myself to keep the mouth shut? Is there some magic chin strap that will gently force me to keep the jaw shut? you may want to try a firm foam cervical collar. they are found at your drug or grocery store down with the rest of ...
- Mon Jun 30, 2025 3:21 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
- Replies: 16
- Views: 669
Re: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
Nasal masks work perfectly fine with BiLevel. Put on some mouth tape, fix the leak. If you have to see any of these Drs again just tell them you're using a FF-mask. here in support for what ds is saying. I've been on a nasal pillow mask for ten years and it made the journey over to bilevel just fin...
- Mon Jun 30, 2025 10:08 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
- Replies: 16
- Views: 669
Re: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
Do leaks from the mouth appear on Oscar? no. leaks are leaks as far as oscar knows. Yes! Leaks are leaks as far as Oscar is concerned. The correct question is "Does Oscar discriminate between mouth leaks and other leaks?" to which the answer is No. Oscar will show all leaks recorded by the machine,...
- Sun Jun 29, 2025 10:45 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Positional devices
- Replies: 2
- Views: 229
Re: Positional devices
So I'm curious about things intended to help people avoid sleeping on our backs. i use a fanny pack. i put an empty plastic water bottle in it. the kind of water bottle you get at seven eleven or such like. this is very light but will still give a slight bump to remind you. and a slight crinkling s...
- Sun Jun 29, 2025 9:29 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
- Replies: 16
- Views: 669
Re: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
no. leaks are leaks as far as oscar knows.
- Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:32 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
- Replies: 16
- Views: 669
Re: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
Is there anything less harsh than tape, what about medical mask but only on the mouth? Is the point keeping the mouth shut or is the point to prevent leaking? Just a random idea https://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/p1089718/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=112758&p=1086133&hilit=+waveforms#p1086296 I take it it's...
- Sat Jun 28, 2025 11:54 am
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
- Replies: 16
- Views: 669
Re: How to detect mouth breathing/leak
welcome to the zoo!Theusertravel0 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 11:33 ammy lips aren't always shut due to my lower jaw being smaller and having kind big teeth on the top
yes you can get leaks that way. I took have some misaligned front teeth. I've found that using denture cream on my lips keeps them from parting and for me, no mouth leaks.
- Thu Jun 26, 2025 5:42 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Waking up every hour - nothing obvious on OSCAR?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 932
Re: Waking up every hour - nothing obvious on OSCAR?
Before CPAP I had occasional maintenance insomnia issues, but it was more like, waking up after 5 hours and then being up for the day unable to fall back asleep. Not every hour like with CPAP. I think I might have woken up around 22:00, coinciding with the big leak at that time? But not the other w...
- Wed Jun 25, 2025 5:40 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Waking up every hour - nothing obvious on OSCAR?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 932
Re: Waking up every hour - nothing obvious on OSCAR?
did you have trouble with multiple wake ups before CPAP?subtlegrace92 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 11:58 amOSCAR results: https://imgur.com/a/cpap-06-19-SaU1b66
do your wake ups coincide with your leaks?
oh and welcome to the zoo!
- Mon Jun 23, 2025 6:46 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Full face mask recommendations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 557
Re: Full face mask recommendations
no answer for the full face mask. (sorry) but have you tried just turning on your machine and letting it air dry your hose?jlsmithseven wrote: ↑Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:24 amThe inside of the tubing never fully dries ever, so I want to get a drying machine. The hurricane.
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:10 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Getting stuck with UARS settings!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2164
Re: Getting stuck with UARS settings!
don't have your answer. i'm replying to bump it up. I figure if they see my name, they'll think "what dumb answer has zonker given?" then swoop in to correct me.




- Sat Jun 21, 2025 6:46 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: any clues on my report as to why I keep taking off my mask after a few hours?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 757
Re: any clues on my report as to why I keep taking off my mask after a few hours?
SleepySheepy11 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:37 pmThanks kindly for your response.
I wore my mask for an hour today, and I'll wear it for another hour before bed!
Will update with my progress!

- Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:12 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: any clues on my report as to why I keep taking off my mask after a few hours?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 757
Re: any clues on my report as to why I keep taking off my mask after a few hours?
I don't remember taking it off, so I am not sure why I take it off. howdy! this a quite common occurrence when you are new to the machine. same thing happened to me. and it's nothing to do with your settings. instead, it's your big ol' primitive brain. it's screaming "oh my god! there's an alien on...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 5:43 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Help with my cpap therapy
- Replies: 16
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- Thu Jun 19, 2025 7:18 pm
- Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
- Topic: Help me interpret my Oscar data
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2518
Re: Help me interpret my Oscar data
she said epr to 3. she said nothing about min to 9.resmeds11se wrote: ↑Thu Jun 19, 2025 4:05 pmSo would a good starting point be to set EPR to 3 and bump up the minimum pressure to 9?
also, she advised one change at a time.