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Wow I'm somewhere going on 2 months on CPAP and I have never felt better. I have more energy than I have had in a very long time. I am STILL waiting on my new FitLife mask. This coming week will be the 3rd week that it has been since my order was put in for it. I did find an inexpensive way to help with the forehead pain I was getting from the quattro. I took a sock that didn't have a mate and cut the toe part off. I then cut two small slits on either side and Voilà. I just slip it over the top of the mask and place the forehead support through the holes that were cut in the side. I still get some pressure pain, but I have reduced the skin breakdown considerably.The only place that I get it now, and it is not bad at all is on the bridge of my nose.I just got my data card read yesterday and I did notice that there must have been a glitch with my card. It shows days without device as being 1. I NEVER EVER sleep without it. Anyone else had that happen before? Other than that my numbers look good from what the DME says. my AHI went from I think 3. something down to 2.4, and I have gone from averaging 5 hours a night on the machine to almost 8 hours a night, and the average time in large leak per day is 0...YAY!! I will say that when I first started CPAP that it was going to be a horrible thing that I would have to do for the rest of my life. I have since learned that being diagnosed and properly treated is the BEST thing that I have done for myself...
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Permalink Reply by Jan on
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I'm at the beginning of my journey meeting with RT for first time on Monday. Thanks for posting your story. I found it uplifting :-)
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Permalink Reply by susan mccord on
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I'm excited for you, Christine!! I remember when...!
I just got a new full face mask yesterday due to HUGE mouth leakage. I liked my last mask, a lot. It didn't leak at all but my mouth did. (There are those who would say my mouth leaks all the time anyway!!!).
Last night I slept much better--up to then, I'd begun to drop down from 5-6 hours to 4-5. My DME took one look at my printout and said "Well, this explains why you're not sleeping". Plus my water vessel was running out of H20 after 5 hours of sleep. DME said it's because of all the air blowing out of my mouth and the machine trying to compensate by overworking. Last night, after 7 hours' sleep, the water thing was still half full!!!
My leak #'s were in the 65 range!!!!! Good grief, no wonder I haven't been able to bank any energy points despite 100% compliance for a long, long time now. Looking forward to going to bed tonight to see if I can repeat the performance!!
Susan McCord :-)
I love my DME. I wish everybody had one as good as he is.......
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THAT'S GREAT, CHRISTINE. We're behind you! About ur sock thing, there is foam packaging that comes with new computers, and other electronics, it's black, sometimes white, SAVE IT! Ask a computer geek for some.They slide it in glued to cardboard, sometimes it's a framing, no cardboard. I took the sharpest steak knife from the kitchen, not the serratted ones, the sharpenable ones (box cutters too small) and sliced a wedge for my heal, since I run, and needed padding on the heal, then round the edges with sizzors, BINGO, and you can replace it any time, this might work on your forehead pressure-point, the stuff is great. Not standard shoe cussions from RiteAid, and not high density, it's in between.
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