Recently diagnosed and have some questions

Last was another rough one for me. Mask is still leaking a lot, and the bridge of my nose is really sore. Theres a very sore, and unsightly bruise at the top of my nose now. Also every time I breathed out I kept hearing something that sounded like a valve pop. I was looking into buying the pad a check mask liner but in the pictures the air hole looks so small it appears that if I tried to breath through my nose it that id be breathing through the cloth.

Mr_Adrian70 wrote:Last was another rough one for me. Mask is still leaking a lot, and the bridge of my nose is really sore. Theres a very sore, and unsightly bruise at the top of my nose now. Also every time I breathed out I kept hearing something that sounded like a valve pop. I was looking into buying the pad a check mask liner but in the pictures the air hole looks so small it appears that if I tried to breath through my nose it that id be breathing through the cloth.

This site may help with your mask fitting. https://maskarrayed.wordpress.com/tamin ... e-quattro/
Also the padacheek liners are sized for each mask but if you felt the need you could trim it a little. In the mean time you can protect your nose with a little bandaid on the sore spot.
I'm not familiar with your machine to say about the sound. Does your humidifier come off? Check to be sure it is on securely. I recently had a clicking sound and found it stopped after removing and replacing back on my humidifier.

Mr_Adrian70 wrote:every time I breathed out I kept hearing something that sounded like a valve pop

It's probably the anti asphyxia valve popping...someone who uses a full face mask can tell you how to fix it. I can't because I have never used one.

The Padacheek liners are designed to be trimmed to make the mouth/nose openings larger depending on the person. It's easier to trim a small opening than it is to add material to an opening that is too large and people's faces are all different.

You can make your own liner out of an old T shirt to see if it helps or not.
Might want to get with your equipment supplier Monday and see about maybe trying something else if you can't get this mask tamed.
There usually is a small window for mask swapping (often 30 days) so if this mask is too much of a problem don't spend your entire mask swapping time with it...try something else while you can. You can always go back to it if you want to.

Mr_Adrian70 wrote:I never said my pressure was at 38. My pressures are listed below my equipment list. My sleep report did mention that I should be at a max IPAP of 25 or 30 if a machine is available. I don't know how I was misunderstood

I'm sorry. I was speaking of my late neighbor and my misunderstanding in thinking he told me his pressure was set to 38.