Water in the mask

My mask is dripping on my face. I got the snugglehose because of the knock out noise but now I have the dripping problem. I thought the hose cover would eliminate this problem but it seems to make it worse. Our bedroom is cold because we have a room a/c just for our room (gets SOO hot here in Houston). Will turning the humidity down help? The dripping mask is causing me to throw the mask at night (a problem I have anyway).

A couple things you can try:
- get your machine down lower than your head, so condensation in the hose will run back down to the humidifier
- turn the humidity down
- if you have a heated hose, turn it's temperature up

Good luck!

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See above thread posts #2 and #3 for some options on dealing with the condensation in the mask/hose.
Turning the humidity setting down might help but if it's the moisture in your exhaled breath that is condensing in the mask it likely won't help much. Plus your nasal mucosa might not like less humidity (mine don't).

Are you still using the Swift FX nasal pillow mask? If so, you might want to look at the Padacheek.com barrel cozy.
I used one before I got the heated hose and it helped a lot.
http://www.padacheek.com/PACSwiftII_Barrel_cozy.html

You are fighting physics in action and have to get that air in the hose and mask warmed up so it doesn't cool to the point of releasing the moisture.

If you are using the nasal pillows...due to the way they are made and where the hose attaches the sometimes standard suggestion of putting the machine lower than the bed really won't help much because where the hose attaches to the mask and the way the pillows are made water will pool in the pillow because it has to go uphill a bit to make it to the long hose.
I have been there and one that with nasal pillow masks and condensation in the mask...it can't go uphill and unless you are sleeping totally face down the only way is up hill.

Since the original poster has a DreamStation Auto CPAP (like I do), (s)he can get a heated hose if (s)he doesn't already have one.

Also, please be very careful not to overfill the reservoir.

The suggestions already made are good ones.

I may be putting too much water in again. I've done that before. I am still using the Swift FX with nasal pillows.

KTinTexas wrote:My mask is dripping on my face. I got the snugglehose because of the knock out noise but now I have the dripping problem. I thought the hose cover would eliminate this problem but it seems to make it worse. Our bedroom is cold because we have a room a/c just for our room (gets SOO hot here in Houston). Will turning the humidity down help? The dripping mask is causing me to throw the mask at night (a problem I have anyway).

Yes it will. Turn it half way down. You need to cover the hose up by your mask also. iF possible fabricate something for the mask too.

With the cover on the hose it is holding more moisture alright its just condensing when it gets up to the colder parts now.
Ps. I like my room cold too. Between 60-63 when possible. Sometimes in the winter it gets down in the high 50s. I stopped using a heated hose after a while.

KTinTexas wrote: Our bedroom is cold because we have a room a/c just for our room (gets SOO hot here in Houston). Will turning the humidity down help?

Houston is humid - do you need a lot of humidity from your machine's humidier?

Of course, if your A/C is drying out the air in your bedroom, that's a different matter.