Newbie questions - Leaks, Dry Nose, Noise

[Perpetual]

If the machine noise bothers youor your wife, one solution I have seen work for many is a styrofoam cooler turned upside down over the machine, leaving holes for the air vent and hose, obviously. It's cheap to try and may help!

Pam

Great idea. I moved it under the bed and placed a shoe box next to it to sorta hide it and that reduced a lot of the "whirring" sound from the c-flex. The only noise now is from the vent on the mask. I will give the cooler idea a spin.

By the way, I used the Ayr saline solution and gel and again woke at 4ish but today I could breathe. So, that seemed to help a lot with the dryness!

Thanks for that!

[RosemaryB]

Now, although I am silent, the machine is too loud and the sound of the breathing through the mask is too loud. Are there masks that are quieter than others?

During my study I had the Somnoplus mask by Somnotech. It was extremely quiet, amazingly so, but not the best fit for me personally. I believe that the other two masks by Somnotech are also known as among the quietest masks around.

https://www.cpap.com/productpage/somnot ... dgear.html

[Perpetual]

Yeah, the sound graph makes it look much quieter than the competition. Too bad like yourself, the user reviews don't give it high marks on fit. I'm a mover in bed, don't think this one will work for me.

Thanks for the tip though!

[exhausted]

I'm new to the CPAP world too, and my setting is 16, and my husband said I now sound like Darth Vader too, but it is the low shrieking sounds and leaks that bother me. Just as I am about to actually fall asleep I move my face and the dreaded noise wakes me. I am wearing a ResMed Mirage, and did get the standard fit and medium, though something smaller but not as small as the small would likely be "perfect."
I made a strap of soft elastic with velcro on the ends that goes around my head and over the nose but not the leak holes and it does sort of hold it in place and stabilize it without needing to tighten the straps so tight that the "cushion" is squashed.
I too wonder if this is something we have to learn to live with with the higher settings or if there is a better way.

[jennmary]

I keep my my humidifier at the highest or 2nd to highest level. Havent had rainout yet. Guess I will have to wait and see what happens when winter comes again. The humidifier was set at 3 the first few nights...but I got to dry. I would try upping the humidifier. If rainout is an issue you can do things to prevent it.