Since increasing my pressure, I have become a mouth breather. I tried tape last night, holy crap I feel great.
But the whole tape thing is to S&M for me.
So I've been loosing therapy through my mouth. I can't stand something on the bridge of my nose.
I was thinking about Amera full view, or Liberty. I'm using large pillows on my mask. It looks like
the Liberty is closest to what I am using against my nose. Can any chime in on either of these masks?
FFM Recs
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Sir NoddinOff
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Re: FFM Recs
I don't get your subject line at all, so you may want to change it.... but anyway....
If you are a persistent mouth breather while using nasal masks/pillows and don't want to mouth-tape, then check out chinstraps. You may have some luck, but the sad fact is that they only help a limited number of people. It's easy to test if a chinstrap will keep your lips closed. Without a chinstrap, while sitting at your computer or anywhere, simply pinch your nostrils, close your lips/jaw firmly and attempt to blow air out of your mouth. Most people can do that quite easily... this exercise essentially proves that chinstraps are mostly for keeping your jaw from receding during the various sleep stages, not a good thing at all.
If I were you, I'd give taping another try and see if you can't get comfortable with that solution, otherwise the next step is a full face mask (I know you hate the idea of something on the bridge of your nose, but sleep trumps a lot of stuff). Maybe some people will chime in about exercises that teach you to keep your tongue on the roof of your mouth, but I've never found that endeavor useful. Good luck, let us know how it goes.
If you are a persistent mouth breather while using nasal masks/pillows and don't want to mouth-tape, then check out chinstraps. You may have some luck, but the sad fact is that they only help a limited number of people. It's easy to test if a chinstrap will keep your lips closed. Without a chinstrap, while sitting at your computer or anywhere, simply pinch your nostrils, close your lips/jaw firmly and attempt to blow air out of your mouth. Most people can do that quite easily... this exercise essentially proves that chinstraps are mostly for keeping your jaw from receding during the various sleep stages, not a good thing at all.
If I were you, I'd give taping another try and see if you can't get comfortable with that solution, otherwise the next step is a full face mask (I know you hate the idea of something on the bridge of your nose, but sleep trumps a lot of stuff). Maybe some people will chime in about exercises that teach you to keep your tongue on the roof of your mouth, but I've never found that endeavor useful. Good luck, let us know how it goes.
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Last edited by Sir NoddinOff on Tue Apr 05, 2016 4:57 pm, edited 2 times in total.
I like my ResMed AirFit F10 FFM - reasonably low leaks for my ASV therapy. I'm currently using a PR S1 AutoSV 960P Advanced. I also keep a ResMed S9 Adapt as backup. I use a heated Hibernite hose. Still rockin' with Win 7 by using GWX to stop Win 10.
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chunkyfrog
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It's too bad chin-up strips are so blasted expensive.
I have cut my own, but I can no longer get my claws on tape that is both wide,
flexible, and sticky enough to do the job.
If anybody has a line on 2" wide cloth or paper medical tape, please PM me.
Update: Thank you to those who responded.
I have cut my own, but I can no longer get my claws on tape that is both wide,
flexible, and sticky enough to do the job.
If anybody has a line on 2" wide cloth or paper medical tape, please PM me.
Update: Thank you to those who responded.
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