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Unless leaks are massive and prolonged or waking me up I don't dwell on leaks all that much....no matter what the cause.
I tend to concentrate on sleep quality itself because without sleep itself it doesn't really matter much how good or bad any of the numbers are.
Daytime feelings are important too...and if aerophagia rears its ugly head then it also must be dealt with because we can't have a good night without a good day as well. It's not worth it to kill all the apneas during the night only to be miserable or ill during the day from aerophagia. Use EPR to your advantage but if that's still not enough then we make little compromises in the pressure settings to that we keep the aerophagia monster away.

I don't know much about restless leg or PLMD (Periodic limb movement disorder) except to know it really can mess with sleep quality or sleep architecture and mess up the needed sleep stages for the restorative powers of sleep to work their magic.
That area of discussion I leave to people with more experience since I have zero experience with that problem.
Kteague is great at it and I am going to send her a note and ask her to stop by here and offer her input in that area.

So as to which mask to use.....the one that you like the best that lets you sleep the most/best.
The one that the leaks wake you up the least...no matter what the numbers are.

Change your focus from numbers to sleep quality because without sleep the best numbers in the world are meaningless and you already have enough sleep problems with the restless leg stuff.

Thanks Pugsy,
I will indeed focus on sleep quality and quantity.
Most of the time the RLS doesn't bother me too much. It's just unfortunate that I had a few days of that recently. But I would be interested to hear what @Kteague has to say.

I am going to stick with the nasal mask for a while because it has a few advantages:

• I find it more comfortable because it's smaller. (Apart from the first night, when I had the straps too tight.)

• I find that any cold air blowing on my skin is a problem. The FF mask diffuser blows it in a circle which is difficult to escape! The nasal mask blows it in one direction and I can make sure that's away from me or from the bedclothes (to avoid noise)

• Vanity, vanity! It doesn't look quite so scary.

I also found a small bead cushion that is better behind my back, than the pillow I was using before, to stop me rolling onto my back, where I breathe most shallowly.

Wishing long satisfying nights of sleep to all!
Jo