Different compliance at home and work...

[tgulch]

I have the Quatro FX mask with a S9 cpap and humidifier. I have noticed something strange. When I am at work I wear my mask all night with virtually no leakage and sleep like a baby. However when I am at home I seem to have many more leaks around the cheeks/eyes area. I even end up loosening my straps alot at work, and seems like I need to tighten them when I am home. And also at home I seem to wake up and take the mask off after about 4 hours and then wake up in the morning with no mask on vaguely remembering removing it.

I have no idea as to the seemingly more leaks at home as opposed to at work, but as to taking it off would work having good cold A/C blowing all night and the fact I do not have A/C to speak of at home make a difference. Would the coolness of the air going through the system at work really cause that much of a difference that i take it off at home? I use the humidifer usually on the same setting at both home and work.

[Jade]

How do the pillows and beds differ?

[archangle]

Well, what's different at work?

Mask, machine, bed type, sleeping position, etc.?

Is it the same mask? (Not the same type, the same mask?)

How about face hygiene? Bath time vs. bed time? Try an alcohol wipe of the face.

Maybe tension. I know if I tense up my face vs. relaxing my face, it can affect leaks.

Warmth might affect leaks if your face gets sweaty.

[tgulch]

Really almost everything is the same at work as far as pillows machine mask (it is a pain packing up my machine and all at least every other night for one job or another.) beds are only different in the aspect of being a twin alone at work and a queen with a girlfriend included at home. The only other difference is cold AC at work and no AC at home. Thinking about that I may have an oiler face at home because of no AC and less oily at work because of the AC, so that would make sense the more i think about that part of it. The compliance thing, only thing i can think of is colder air makes for easier breathing as I sleep.