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4 days in and mild laryngitis, ughh! Not loving this. I have started trying to return the escape for the Autoset, will see what happens this week. I'm also ordering the cms50d+ pulse oximeter to try to see if I have any noticeable drops. My daytime normal O2 at 90%

Thank you everyone who pushed me to get rid of the S9 escape. They called me back and said that they would swap my escape auto for the S9 autoset tomorrow. Would have never know any different if not for your advice. Now if I could only stop tossing and turning all night because of the mask. I think I'm waking up more frequently from the mask than from any apnea.

What mask are you using?
Are leaks waking you up? Or discomfort? Or maybe just because it's there on your face?

I tried my S9 at 1 (low), 3 (medium) and 5 (high) and compared the results. Turns out I'm a low humidity user.

Of course you still need data and to fix that open mouth issue before you try this as others have mentioned.

Good luck

Pugsy, I'm using the resmed swift fx nasal pillow. I don't seem to have any leak issue aside from occasional mouth opening, not much discomfort really, it's because it's there and tossing around with tube attached to my face. I know it's only been 4 days, but I'm waking up because it's there.

It takes a while for the body and brain to come to accept this alien thing called a mask being stuck to our face. Seems like every little thing causes us to wake up. For me it was just wake up and feel to see if it was there.
If the hose seems to be creating issues you might consider routing things over your head with some sort of hose management system.
There are various ways to do from buying you own to making your own out of a few things probably laying around the house.

Some discussion and DIY projects here
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Having spent years scuba diving in some really technical and crazy places, I didn't think the mask would be that big an issue. I'm keeping at it. I'm ordering a contec cms50d+ tonight as well to help figure things out.

Got My S9 autoset. Thanks all

Daso,

I'm also a scuba diver, and I had to unlearn mouth breating on the hose, but scuba certainly helped my comfort level with the whole alien on the face thing.

I used a chinstrap (I like the ruby, but like mask choice it is a personal comfort thing) for 2-3 months to encourage my mouth to stay closed. I like to use the auto setting on the humidifier, have the unit work to provide 80% humidity adjusting for temperature, etc.

Good luck

Went to ENT and found out have sinus infection. Suggested I not use cpap until resolved.