So now I am going with the ResMed F30i. I'm finally able to get the darn thing to seal but I have to really adjust straps tight to the point that it's quite uncomfortable and I don't know that this would be a sustainable solution with it being that uncomfortably tight.
Even though now I am able to get the mask to not leak horribly as the other mask did, I am still woken up (times that I am actually able to fall to sleep) to crazy high pressure. At these times - I take a look at the machine and see that the pressure level is up to 17 or so. To me, this just feels ridiculously high and I wonder "how can anyone ever stay sleeping through this?". As I am laying there, even with my mouth closed, my cheeks blow out from the pressure as if I were trying to blow up a balloon. After trying to force the air out of my mouth, I close my mouth and try to concentrate on not allowing my cheeks to blow out again, but they do.
The other thing I find curious, last night after I stopped the machine to go to the bathroom, when I hooked back up to the machine at about 00:40, I layed in bed awake and within 10-15 minutes, it ramped the pressure up again to that crazy high level of 17. Now looking at the OSCAR data, it looks like that was in response to detected "events". I know I was awake during the time of the report of 00:45 - 01:00. I was probably moving around or maybe fidgeting a little with the mask trying to get it set properly. I really find it hard to believe that within 00:45 - 0:55 that I REALLY had these events - I was laying there awake. Could moving around (rolling side to side) be triggering these "events" to be detected?
Are others able to sleep through their machine ramping up to a pressure level of 17 or so?
I'm just getting ridiculously frustrated by this. If this type of thing keeps happening where it cranks up so high - I don't think that I'd be able to tolerate this.
Thanks!