The Simplus gave me a full-face hickey and other mask indignities

[HalfAsleep]

Thanks, Walla Walla, for the theory about why my AHI might be lower during leaks than otherwise.

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Yesterday's problem at the DME was not so much that Resmed doesn't make the right size mask for me, or the right kind. It was that the DME seemed to think only one mask came in a "for Her" model, when there are several.

And then there was their total lack of effort at hygiene. They handle those masks with no Purell, plop them down on desks, and put the icky measuring thing up to your face.

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I picked up a mask from the DME (the only one they said Resmed made in my size): an F10. I wore it last night and had my lowest-leak night, so maybe things are looking up, but boy, does it seem clunky compared with the F20.

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My experiment to notch up my pressure by small increments while controlling leakage is proving valuable. I am at 6-12 (prescription is 5-15). No more 50% leak rate.

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I had a lower leak rate last night (13%), combined with AHI (7.46), but a crazy number of ultra-long apneas. 6 33+ OA's.

[kiwii]

Yesterday's problem at the DME was not so much that Resmed doesn't make the right size mask for me, or the right kind. It was that the DME seemed to think only one mask came in a "for Her" model, when there are several.

And then there was their total lack of effort at hygiene. They handle those masks with no Purell, plop them down on desks, and put the icky measuring thing up to your face.

Most of the "for Her" models are only different in coloring. I can't recall the particulars at the moment, but I telephoned ResMed to ask questions and only one of the headgear that I asked about had any difference whatsoever. Another came packaged with pillows including an extra small, Small & Medium whereas the regular came packaged with S, M, & L. Mostly they are just the same, but with pink/lavender headgear instead of blue.

[HalfAsleep]

Hi, Kiwiiiiiiii!

The pink headgear is a different size and configuration. When I tried it on, the unisex F20 S mask was waay bigger than the for Her Small.

[trev121]

My first use of nasal pillows gave me blisters on both cheeks!  I'm much more careful now.

[HalfAsleep]

This is maybe not a mask indignity so much as a mask quirk....


Has anyone had the mask make their hair curly?    Now that I have an FFM, there has been an impressive evolution of my hairdo. It's not quite up to the moniker "big hair", or 'Lil Annie, but it's headed (so to speak) in that direction. Here it is fall, when it normally goes flat, and it's sprouting curls all over.

Must be the humidifier combined with leaks misting it all night.

That's not all. I've developed spectacular symmetrical flip curls along the sides of my head above the ears. My stylist has spent years try to effect this very look with shears, trimmers, razors.... Voilà, the headgear makes it happen with no effort. Yep, my flip curls come courtesy of the side straps.


I'm clearly saving a ton of money in trips to the beauty parlor (ya, right!), but no worries, it's headed right to the accessories shopping basket at Pad-A-Cheek.

[trev121]

Yes, I've developed a wave that cannot be styled out where my dreamwear mask crosses overtop my head.  No choice but to roll with it.

[GrammaBear]

This is maybe not a mask indignity so much as a mask quirk....


Has anyone had the mask make their hair curly?    Now that I have an FFM, there has been an impressive evolution of my hairdo. It's not quite up to the moniker "big hair", or 'Lil Annie, but it's headed (so to speak) in that direction. Here it is fall, when it normally goes flat, and it's sprouting curls all over.

Must be the humidifier combined with leaks misting it all night.

That's not all. I've developed spectacular symmetrical flip curls along the sides of my head above the ears. My stylist has spent years try to effect this very look with shears, trimmers, razors.... Voilà, the headgear makes it happen with no effort. Yep, my flip curls come courtesy of the side straps.


I'm clearly saving a ton of money in trips to the beauty parlor (ya, right!), but no worries, it's headed right to the accessories shopping basket at Pad-A-Cheek.

Yes, I am one of the people who developed curly or wavy hair courtesy of their cpap mask.  I've been going to the same hairdresser for a number of years and she couldn't figure out why my hair suddenly has developed a "mind of its own".  If I am going out in public, I have to wash & dry my hair because my 'bed head' would scare a small child into crying loudly.

[MitchS]

No wild hair here, but now that you mention it, I think the headgear has rubbed all of the hair off the top of my head! 

[HalfAsleep]