Exhaling thru mouth when air pressure increases

[thecpapguy!]

Sometimes despite having a small mouth leak micro arousals to a full arousal can happen, which definitely doesn't aid you in a a satisfying night of sleep. It looks like everyone here has talked about the possibility of a chin strap and also seeing if your pressures can be lowered to aid you.

You may try a few excercises that truly seem to help lower the leak percentage and overall discomfort when it comes to a mouth leak issue.

1. Take your tongue and place it at the roof of your mouth while wearing the machine (try to make this a habit). It will promote keeping the air from entering your mouth and the feeling of a need to open your jaw/mouth to relieve.
2. While your tongue is at the roof of your mouth (if your feel you need to open your mouth for relief) suck down as if you had a hard candy in your mouth and breath in deeply all in one motion. This will let the air train to the back of your mouth and to your throat relieving the sensation that you need to open your mouth for relief.
3. Where your positive pressure while you are awake for thirty minutes to an hour daily. This means entirely awake at your full prescription pressure (not the ramp pressure). Focus on how you are breathing and keeping your mouth closed. You may even try to speak with it while the pressure is on such as reading a passage from a book aloud or a magazine article).

I know these are more conventional exercises, but I was reading through the comments and though I would suggest.

[Jay Aitchsee]

I am a new CPAP user who is a mouth breather. I use the nasal pillows. A chin strap didn't even help me. So I invented a device that I have been using for a couple of months now that stops air leakage through the mouth; without the uncomfortable shin strap. It works so well for me, that I have patent pending for it. I thought I would join public forum for CPAP users to see if there were others with the same problem who might be interested in field testing my device.

yeah, I figured you were some kind of dope trying to sell some crap after reading your first post.

And you didn't join, DR. CEK. You are posting as a guest.

[avi123]

Whose charts are these:

[palerider]

Whose charts are these:

talk about typical avi bullshit...

[sleepychar]

avi123 - thank you. I haven't seen anybody share a positive experience with a chin strap and your post reassures me that it may at least be worth a try. When you said "Leave a small gap between your teeth and lips", did you actually mean to leave a small gap between the little indent of your chin and lips? I will know more after my RT has had a chance to look at my more detailed report and see what he has to say/recommend at that time. Also, some people seem to have indicated that the issue I am having with air escaping when I exhale may resolve itself in time - although that may be kind of a wishful thinking interpretation that I am making of someof the comments about this. Did you like that particular model that you showed in your post?