New Respironics ComfortCurve

Neuro,

If you use the Swift Headgear or make your own, you remove the pads altogether and the plastic colored curve piece. You end up with just a tube and the pillow interface. This way it only touches your upper lip and seats under your nose.

The cheek system can work but for some of us the silicone pad is too thick. If you want to try it again I suggest you remove the silicone pad and replace it with moleskin like discussed above.

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AllShookUp wrote:

mikemoran wrote:Okay I think I finally have the solution for me. I love it.

I told you guys you would get the CC right for you. Don't give up guys this one is great!
Love the ComfortCurve now
Patti

I keep reading this thread each day - hoping for yet one more idea to make this thing work for me. Last night I tried the Moleskin suggestion. Heck, prior to yesterday, I had never heard of Moleskin. I had to look it up on the Internet just so I would know what kind of store to find it in. No luck. Had to go back to the Activa. Perhaps tonight I will remove the pieces that the silicon pads attach to and try it that way. I am also determined to make this thing work - within reason.
Even when I push the CC up against my face to stop the leaks, it is LOUD!! The amount of air gushing out of the exhaust ports is huge which causes the noise in my CC. Does anyone sleep with ear plugs in an attempt to block out mask noise? Desperation is setting in.

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Dr. Scholls Moleskin is in the foot care section of any drugstore or supermarket. It is adhesive backed felt.

I was excited to try Comfort Curve since it's design looked so unique. I even paid $35 to have it overnighted. Unfortunately it's been a real disappointment and I am trying to return it. There are way too many variables in arriving at a comfortable fit with no leaks. After 2-3 hours at various times of trying every adjustment I could think of, I gave up. Any product that takes this much work to get it right, is not a good product. I congratulate all those folks with the patience to achieve a comfortable fit. However, if it took this much effort to get your TV or car to work, you would return it.

Also, I was told at CPAP.com that they are getting a unusually high return rate on this product in the short time it's been on the market. Plus, the elbow leak is a know design defect and CPAP may give a refund if your unit has this problem.

So, back to my Activa.

Anonymous wrote:Any product that takes this much work to get it right, is not a good product.

I agree.

Anonymous wrote: I congratulate all those folks with the patience to achieve a comfortable fit. However, if it took this much effort to get your TV or car to work, you would return it.

Thanks for the congrats.

Not so sure about returning the car though, would they let me?
Yes to me this mask was definitely worth the effort. I bought this mask knowing I would not be able to return it so I figured I might as well fix it up or screw it up one or the other.

I have had mine now for 11 nights and am growing more unhappy with it every night. The elbow leaks and the fact I can not keep it sealed for more than a few hours are really trying my patience.

The latest is that I get to sleep with a good seal and no leaks after using teflon tape on the elbows and after 2-3 hours I get a high pitched whistling noise coming from somewhere. I cannot exactly tell where it is coming from and I am not in a position when I am wearing it to find it. I tried to have my wife find it by putting her ear by it but she said the exhaust ports make it hard to pinpoint the spot. originally i thought it may be just a seal problem between the device and my nose, but when I lifted the nasal cushion off my nose about an eighth of an inch so the seal was completely broken it was still making the noise.

I agree with the previously mentioned fact that no devise should take that much modification and contortion to make it work. if anything the new offerings should be easier and more forgiving to the patient and this is not. I am going to be contacting cpap.com to get a return slip on this one and try something else. Probably a breeze, aura or freestyle.

Denny

Denny wrote:The elbow leaks and the fact I can not keep it sealed for more than a few hours are really trying my patience.

Hi, Denny. Last night, I finally discovered that my elbow leak was pretty much limited to the left side of the ComfortCurve right at the point where the left elbow of the tubing assembly plugs into the cross tube. The leak would stop when I held the elbow and cross tube together with even a little pressure. I tried swapping the elbows to the opposite side of the cross tube from where they had been. That way I thought I might be able to ascertain whether the problem was in the elbow or the end of the cross tube; i.e., if the leak then seemed to switch to the other side, it would mean that the problem was in the elbow, whereas if it stayed on the same side after I switched the elbows, it was more likely a result of the cross tube. The result was that the leak remained on the left side even after I swapped sides with the elbows. So I sent an email to the Respironics tech support person I had previously spoken with (Tony Ross, tony.ross@respironics.com) reporting what I thought might be the problem, and I asked him to send me a replacement cross tube (PN #1019205), that I let him know if that corrected the problem. He agreed to send me the replacement cross tube, so I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and, of course, will post a report any success to the forum. Meanwhile, you and others who have the elbow leakage problem might want to check again and see whether it is pretty much confined to one side, in which case a replacement cross tube might be a big help.

With kind regards,

JOE STAMLER
Then, if indeed the problem was in the cross tube, I can send it back to you if you wish.