Puffy nose & CPAP use?

[WorrypasCanada]

Hello again,

I have on occasions notice that my nose shows some puffiness when I look myself in the mirror at wake up time in the morning. In the above context, I don't have any blisters in or out of my nose. It's not about eating too much acid food such as found in tomatoes or other acidic food. Did not find anything spectacular in my mask setting. All specs found below are up to date in regards to mask and machine.

Been a CPAP full time user since about July 2004. I use my CPAP machine about 99.2 %. Is this known to CPAP users? I would have to say that the puffiness is not overly or extremely changed in size... but enough puffiness to see changes. I am not overly alarm by the above situation. I finally decided to write about it, to see if other CPAP users possibly have the same issue. I love this web site.

Thanks for replying to this message.

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[Guest]

Yes, I know what you are talking about, I used to have a narrow nose with thin nares and since starting cpap in aug.2007 and using nasal pillows my nose has blown to the size of "miss piggy's"!

SleepyNoMore

[nw guest]

Maaaaannnnn, I'm glad someone else posted this as when ever I use the pillows, my nose, inner cheeks, and eyes are soooooo puffy.... my family has even taken to commenting on the looks...they call it the Morning Poof ... I am not sure what I want to call it yet...


So does anyone really kno the biological reasoning behind this phenomenon?????? I'd be interested in knowing...