FFM & stomach sleeper having trouble, help!

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new-to-BiPAP
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FFM & stomach sleeper having trouble, help!

Post by new-to-BiPAP » Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:15 am

I have a FFM (Quattro Air XS) and am basically a stomach sleeper. I have a CPAP pillow (Contour CPAP Pillow High Profile) and I thought it was the one I used at the sleep study. But now I am wondering if it was a different one, since I am having such trouble with it. Since the other brand is $60, I don't want to buy another one 'just incase' it works better. So, I could use some tips on how you actually get comfortable with one of these things! I sleep with a body pillow but in order to keep my face off the pillow enuf so that the mask doesn't put too much pressure on my face I have to also sleep on my arm folded up which causes trouble and which I cannot continue to do this. I have tried more pillows to prop me up but that didn't work either. Are there any other FFM people who are stomach sleepers and how do you actually sleep?

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Mask: Quattro™ Air For Her Full Face Mask with Headgear
Humidifier: S9™ Series H5i™ Heated Humidifier with Climate Control
Additional Comments: Machine: RedMed s9 VPAP Adapt; Sleepyhead software

hyperlexis
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Re: FFM & stomach sleeper having trouble, help!

Post by hyperlexis » Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:01 am

Trial and error -- and/or try to sleep more on your side or train yourself to sleep on your back.

Use pillows to help sleep more on your side.