Sleep2Dream wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 10:51 am
Thanks, Pugsy. I gotta say your ongoing swearing by the Bleep is pretty strong inspiration!
My husband will tell you that from day one back in May 2009 and using the nasal pillow masks available at the time that I always would say "man, I need to figure out some way to tape these things to my nose so I can ditch the headgear".
I have always just hated any sort of headgear. I used them but I hated them.
Then I heard about the Bleep...Stuart's idea...but at that time just an idea and I thought to myself "someone is finally trying what I have always wanted to try"....so I waited nearly 2 years while the Bleep was being fine tuned so that I could finally try to get my hands on one to try. I knew it would work for me the first time I ever saw the idea...hard part was the waiting.
Was it perfect? No, but then no mask is ever totally "perfect" for anyone. We have to pick through our own personal preferences, wants and needs and choose the mask that checks most of the boxes in terms of our own wants and needs.
The attachment process wasn't all that difficult for me but it did take a bit of time to master.
In all honesty it probably was the cause of a lot of people simply giving up on the Bleep.
Stuart started working on the Eclipse idea probably not all that long after the release of the first edition of the Bleep.
It was just an idea at first....something to eliminate the most problematic area of the original Bleep....that attachment process.
So...I just tell people to take a hard look at exactly what their own personal preferences, wants and needs are (with any mask they are currently using or thinking about using) and then decide what they might want to try.
For me it was an easy decision....Stuart has done what I always wanted to do but never did.
I hate the headgear part of any mask. It always seems to annoy me and leave dents on my cheeks...even using padacheek strap pads...that made the bags under my eyes simply worse. How we look and feel is a big part of our wants and needs and preferences. I don't believe that a person should just suck it up and accept something they don't like if there is something out there that eliminates a problem we might have with any mask.
I think that curiosity about any mask is a good enough reason to try any mask if that mask is interesting to a person.
I have tried probably over 40 different masks over the years simply because they looked interesting.
I always learned something with each experiment about myself and my own wants and needs.
Sometimes all I learned was how bad I hated something but I always learned something.
I learned that eliminating dents and eye bags was pretty darn important to me....
Now someone else might not care or they might not get dents or eye bags as easily I got them.
Maybe they like the security of the headgear. That's okay too.
Everyone has a choice...accept things as they are or continue to try to maybe improve on things.
) about 3 times in all the years I have been using the Bleep, twice with the DreamPorts, once with the Eclipse. I did have to turn on the lights to slide it back onto the connector.