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I have been using the FitLife Total Face Mask for at least a year and love the mask. Don't get the one size fits all mask. I also have problems with the skin on my nose breaking down and can no longer use a mask that rests there. The FitLife is a great mask. Good luck.

Just brought a fitlife home today I have a pressure setting of 18 so hoping it will work at such a high setting

Sheriff Buford wrote:

kerriberri wrote:[
Everything we've heard so far has been quite encouraging & thanks to the kindness of a special person here on the forum (hope they'll PM me to say it's OK to post their screen name), hubby will be trying one out later this week.

It's ok... hope it works out well!!

Sheriff

Ta Da! Sheriff Buford is the kind heart that sent us the mask. And we appreciate all his great advice, as well. Thank you SO much for your generosity & I look forward to hubby being able to report a successful night's sleep tonight.

If he can just succeed in the negotiations with his pillow, I think it will work great. Thanks again, Sheriff!

Mary Z wrote:I have been using the FitLife Total Face Mask for at least a year and love the mask. Don't get the one size fits all mask. I also have problems with the skin on my nose breaking down and can no longer use a mask that rests there. The FitLife is a great mask. Good luck.

Thanks, Mary--

Thanks to Sheriff Buford, he's going to have one to try out tonight.

Did you try the one-size-fits-all? We've been wondering if he should eventually try that one, too, but it sounds like you had a bad experience. Is it leaky or just too bulky?

Hopefull wrote:Just brought a fitlife home today I have a pressure setting of 18 so hoping it will work at such a high setting

Hi, Hopefull--

Hope to hear you get a good night's sleep & that you'll post your experience at that pressure. Hubby's going to try one Sheriff Buford sent him tonight (his pressure's just 12). This really looks like a great mask.

Hopefull wrote:Just brought a fitlife home today I have a pressure setting of 18 so hoping it will work at such a high setting

Hopefull: let me know how it goes!

Sheriff

Will let you know in the morning

This morning I feel like I wrestled a bear. The first hour went ok I think. After that though it was leaks all night. I always toss and turn . Which makes all the problems worse. At one time I woke up and it was pushed up so far the bottom was on my top lip and not leaking. I thought aboutjust trying to leave it like that and in fact I think I did fore a couple minutes. Just can't get it to keep a seal if I could I think I could get used to everything else

If I get leaks, they will also be late at night or in the morning. I think your face will relax while in a deep sleep and will give all masks an opportunity to leak.

Sheriff

mellabella wrote:I've tried $1000+ worth of different masks and I liked the FitLife immediately after trying it on a lark (for free on an overnight). I have sensitive skin, don't like a lot of things on my face, found the nasal ones painful or irritating (and I mouthbreathe) and the full face ones were serviceable but were leaving marks that lasted half the day, irritating the bridge of my nose, leaking below the cheek bones (I have an angular face) and breaking down my naso-labial folds prematurely (yes, I'm a little vain).

Make sure you get the right size. I actually ended up with an XL:
viewtopic/t81441/REPORT-The-Fitlife-Tot ... ition.html

Is that the same one as in your profile link? I'm confused

Hopefull wrote:This morning I feel like I wrestled a bear. The first hour went ok I think. After that though it was leaks all night. I always toss and turn . Which makes all the problems worse. At one time I woke up and it was pushed up so far the bottom was on my top lip and not leaking. I thought aboutjust trying to leave it like that and in fact I think I did fore a couple minutes. Just can't get it to keep a seal if I could I think I could get used to everything else

what I have found, similar to another poster, is I put the bottom of the mask below my chin, it keeps it from walking. That leaves the top of the mask going across my eyebrows. I also had the dreaded farting noise on the forehead, so I bought one of the sport sweatbands and put that over the top of the mask and now the leaks are gone. You might give that a try and see if it helps!

Thanks I'll give it a try

kerriberri wrote:

Hopefull wrote:Just brought a fitlife home today I have a pressure setting of 18 so hoping it will work at such a high setting

Hi, Hopefull--

Hope to hear you get a good night's sleep & that you'll post your experience at that pressure. Hubby's going to try one Sheriff Buford sent him tonight (his pressure's just 12). This really looks like a great mask.

Darn. He's disappointed. Not a problem with the mask, per se (& we certainly appreciate Sheriff Buford!), but hubby's face is just too big (chin to eyebrows) for this mask. MAYBE he needs to try an XL (afraid it will STILL be too small) or one of the huge total face masks like this: https://www.cpap.com/productpage/total- ... onics.html.

Anybody out there have any experience with that hairline-to-chin mask (not the FitLife, but the "moonman" mask in the link above)? Thanks for any info you can offer; nobody knows any of these products like someone who's tried it!

Have you looked at an oral or a hybrid mask? Yes, I know he has the deviated septum problem but the hybrid would allow him to mouth breathe if the nose doesn't work.

The full oral mask bypasses the nose entirely. It's a bit of a bear to get used to, though.

archangle wrote:Have you looked at an oral or a hybrid mask? Yes, I know he has the deviated septum problem but the hybrid would allow him to mouth breathe if the nose doesn't work.

The full oral mask bypasses the nose entirely. It's a bit of a bear to get used to, though.

Great suggestion; I'll mention these to him.

He's HOPING to make his Amara full face mask work with a new padacheek liner he just got from Karen this morning. He hasn't tried it yet, but it looks like the liner MAY solve his nose problem, since it looks like it will spread the force of his pressure point from a specific point on his nose to a larger area. We'll know more in the morning (although his poor nose is pretty beaten up just now).

Have you tried the hybrid yourself? Just curious. I've looked at them at cpap.com & it looks interesting (except, of course, for the deviated septum issue you know about). It looks like an oral mask would require some noseplugs (which I seriously doubt he'd "cotton to"). Thanks again for your helpful ideas, archangel!