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by Sleep2Dream » Tue Jan 03, 2023 11:44 pm
I am still having trouble with the Eclipse. I think I will have to spend part of a day--and possibly a bunch of halos--getting the hang of attaching everything. Last night, I couldn't seem to get the halos stuck and the mask attached without having some feeling of air rushing down over my upper lip. I kept adding more cut-off bits of halo to fortify the attachment, but to no avail. Then, after I decided to live with that and see how it went, the whole contraption kept falling down onto my upper lip--still attached--in a way that felt uncomfortable and weird. My tube is hanging over the top of my headboard, but the "collapse" still happened regardless of how I manipulated the tube: hanging straight down, hanging with more tube in a "U" shape next to my face, whatever. I am feeling really frustrated. Especially as now, having experienced having no headgear, I hate my old headgear more than ever. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with the Eclipse. All I know is that the first night, the attachment seemed pretty good, but I haven't been able to replicate it. (Sometimes I think that I might just stop using the CPAP altogether...until I get too tired again, and then I'll use it until things improve, rinse, repeat. My AHI was 23 when I first got tested. It's been generally below 1 for the past year or so. I'm not scary tired anymore, but I'm not so incredibly rested that I feel super grateful for the CPAP, either.) The videos make it all look so easy, but maybe it would be better if we could all get custom-made haloes based on plaster casts of our noses. Or course, I've always said the same about bras, lol.
Mask: ResMed N30i Nasal Cushion
Home Machine: ResMed Airsense 10 Autoset
Travel Machine: Z2 Auto