Drooling and mask leaks

Portageegal · Post by **Portageegal** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:53 am

Sometimes, okay MOST of the time, I drool a little. Once my face gets wet the mask leaks near the side of my mouth. If I get the bottom of the mask tight enough the top leaks, if I get the whole mask tight I have mask marks for hours. I guess there isn't a solution I just want to vent. Pardon the pun.

bap40 · Post by **bap40** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:05 am

I wake up with dried drool all the time BUT am using a nasal mask and not a full-faced mask so the drool does not end up inside the mask. I don't know of any solutions for this with a full mask. Hopefully someone else with this problem will chime in and give you some suggestions to try. One would be to go to a nasal mask and tape your mouth to stop you from opening your mouth at night and loosing air and treatment at night.

Good luck,
Brooke

NeurosurgeryNP · Post by **NeurosurgeryNP** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:21 am

I droll too. Have to wash my chinstrap often - it gets caked on there. My leak rates are OK though. I do't drool with the full face mask on though, just with the nasal mask.

Jason S. · Post by **Jason S.** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:18 pm

bap40 wrote:I wake up with dried drool all the time BUT am using a nasal mask and not a full-faced mask so the drool does not end up inside the mask. I don't know of any solutions for this with a full mask. Hopefully someone else with this problem will chime in and give you some suggestions to try. One would be to go to a nasal mask and tape your mouth to stop you from opening your mouth at night and loosing air and treatment at night.

Prior to CPAP my pillow would be soaked each morning. I have a FFM and so far I haven't had/noticed any drooling. I was wondering about that. A night ago I didn't use CPAP (had a cold) and the drooling was back.

Jason S. · Post by **Jason S.** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:06 pm

My volume of drool is directly proportional to the slutiness of Angelina's choice of sleepwear on any given evening.

WearyOne · Post by **WearyOne** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:12 pm

I won't be much help, other than to say I have the same problem. I use the Hybrid and several times a week I wake up to find I'm drooling inside the mask. Can't stand the feeling, so I keep tissues nearby to stick up under the mask to wipe it off!! I don't know if it makes my mask leak or not; I think because I hate the feeling so much, I'm waking up before it gets to that point.

Pam

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