Ow, my face!

I had a mild cold which has turned into an asthmatic lollapalooza. Inflamed lungs and sinuses. Blech!

This is the first time in about two years I've had the full blown auto-immune response, and on a scale of 1-10 (so far!) it's about a 3. It could be worse! I'm a big baby!

So I'm back to the Quattro because I'm too congested to breathe through my nose. I have a brand new cushion, but it's so leaky! And my face is swollen from sinus congestion so it hurts!!! I spent all night tossing and turning trying to relieve my face pain. Even light pressure hurt. The moist CPAP air feels so good and keeps my coughing under control, but I was so uncomfortable last night. WHINE!

Any suggestions??? I use a padacheek liner and used every fitting trick I could think of.

Jan
I still use my P10 when I have a cold or asthma/allergies problems. I may not be able to breathe as well but at least its a lot better than using my Quattro or F10 with added face pain. I just put a dab of pursleep "clear" behind my air intake, put on my P10 and try to settle in.

Janknitz wrote:I had a mild cold which has turned into an asthmatic lollapalooza. Inflamed lungs and sinuses. Blech!

This is the first time in about two years I've had the full blown auto-immune response, and on a scale of 1-10 (so far!) it's about a 3. It could be worse! I'm a big baby!

So I'm back to the Quattro because I'm too congested to breathe through my nose. I have a brand new cushion, but it's so leaky! And my face is swollen from sinus congestion so it hurts!!! I spent all night tossing and turning trying to relieve my face pain. Even light pressure hurt. The moist CPAP air feels so good and keeps my coughing under control, but I was so uncomfortable last night. WHINE!

Any suggestions??? I use a padacheek liner and used every fitting trick I could think of.

I have always found that new cushions are stiff and cause me leaks. I use cushions as long as possible because...for me...the softer cushions, when inflated, form to my face better and I rarely have any leaks. My current cushions are over a year old. As they say...YMMV.

Janknitz wrote:I had a mild cold which has turned into an asthmatic lollapalooza. Inflamed lungs and sinuses. Blech!

This is the first time in about two years I've had the full blown auto-immune response, and on a scale of 1-10 (so far!) it's about a 3. It could be worse! I'm a big baby!

So I'm back to the Quattro because I'm too congested to breathe through my nose. I have a brand new cushion, but it's so leaky! And my face is swollen from sinus congestion so it hurts!!! I spent all night tossing and turning trying to relieve my face pain. Even light pressure hurt. The moist CPAP air feels so good and keeps my coughing under control, but I was so uncomfortable last night. WHINE!

Any suggestions??? I use a padacheek liner and used every fitting trick I could think of.

May I refer you to this EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT blog article about "taming the Mirage Quattro" mask.......

https://maskarrayed.wordpress.com/tamin ... e-quattro/

Sorry.......couldn't resist.
Anyway, hope things get better soon.

Den

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Wulfman... wrote:

Janknitz wrote:I had a mild cold which has turned into an asthmatic lollapalooza. Inflamed lungs and sinuses. Blech!

This is the first time in about two years I've had the full blown auto-immune response, and on a scale of 1-10 (so far!) it's about a 3. It could be worse! I'm a big baby!

So I'm back to the Quattro because I'm too congested to breathe through my nose. I have a brand new cushion, but it's so leaky! And my face is swollen from sinus congestion so it hurts!!! I spent all night tossing and turning trying to relieve my face pain. Even light pressure hurt. The moist CPAP air feels so good and keeps my coughing under control, but I was so uncomfortable last night. WHINE!

Any suggestions??? I use a padacheek liner and used every fitting trick I could think of.

May I refer you to this EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT blog article about "taming the Mirage Quattro" mask.......

https://maskarrayed.wordpress.com/tamin ... e-quattro/

Sorry.......couldn't resist.
Anyway, hope things get better soon.

Den

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You are too funny!

I think the problem is my face is puffy and hurts. I can barely press gently with my hand, and that air filled cushion against my face was just torture last night.

I considered sleeping without, but the CPAP really does soothe my lungs--otherwise I'd be coughing all night. Heck, if I could figure out a way to use CPAP all day I would--I feel so much better lung--wise. But it would be very awkward in the office

I have never understood the have a full face mask to use
if you have a cold... so....do you flip the switch in your brain
for the full face mask program. ....say what?

I use a full face mask all the time. I have trained myself to
sleep w/my tongue planted firmly on the roof of my mouth.
When I have a cold, I don't just load the "sleep w/your mouth open"
program and life is good. When it's bad enough, I "sleep" without my cpap
in the recliner....and suffer til I can breathe through my nose again.

carbonman wrote:I have never understood the have a full face mask to use
if you have a cold... so....do you flip the switch in your brain
for the full face mask program. ....say what?

I use a full face mask all the time. I have trained myself to
sleep w/my tongue planted firmly on the roof of my mouth.
When I have a cold, I don't just load the "sleep w/your mouth open"
program and life is good. When it's bad enough, I "sleep" without my cpap
in the recliner....and suffer til I can breathe through my nose again.

I've been having some allergies here and there too. So several nights in the past month I awoke congested with my nasal mask feeling like I was suffocating because I could not get enough air through my nose. When I'm congested and I use the FF mask, I breathe through my mouth. It's MISERABLE because it dries out the mouth something terrible, but I'm kind of addicted to breathing, so I put up with it.

Well, I'm happy to report I had a MUCH better night last night. Went to sleep with the mask adjusted just as it had been the night before--somewhat leaky, but no pain and I slept all night, waking in the same position and in that calm, comfortable feeling that CPAP delivers. It was SO hard to obey my 5:45 a.m. alarm clock!!!

YAY! I think the night before was just bad because of the bronchitis and inflammation, not the mask. Thanks for listening to me whine.