Air leak/wakeups

[bluegrass001]

I am stil waking up a couple of times a night with my CPAP (only a month into it) and I only get an air leak when I sleep on my right side.....are these normal?

[Pugsy]

Might be normal..might not. Any special reason why you wake up? Need to go to the bathroom maybe?
Or just wake up..and roll over and go back to sleep...or wake up and can't go back to sleep for a while?

[bluegrass001]

Its mostly wake up and go back to sleep for sure......sometimes it's joint related but mostly its still fighting the CPAP especially the leaks on my right side.....no problems with leaks on my left or on my back......is it possible to mouth breathe only on one side?

[Pugsy]

is it possible to mouth breathe only on one side?

I suppose it is possible or it could just be position and pressure on the mask itself...just a little different on the right side causes mask to slip a bit.

How bad are the leaks on the right side? Mouth breathing bad enough to impact therapy would likely show up as a substantial leak. Have you tried a different mask?
Even if leaks are minimal on paper and they wake us up...we don't want anything to wake us up so we try to fix them. If the leaks don't wake us up and aren't in large leak territory then I don't get all in a panic about less than perfect leak numbers.