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Re: 1st week on CPAP-to Delores & Tynya


Posted by Lisa O. (Gig Harbor, WA) on October 22, 1998 at 23:15:11:

In Reply to: Re: 1st week on CPAP posted by Tynya (Nashville, TN) on October 22, 1998 at 10:02:13:

Delores & Tynya,
My Mirage mask does not sit up close to my eyes at all. It follows the same line over the bridge of my nose and down my face that my glasses do. When it leaks into my right eye (my big problem leak) the air goes up over a little skin to reach my eye.

My mask rests on the place a man's mustache would be, between my nose and my upper lip. If I pull it around because of leaks, sometimes it rests lower and puts a little pressure on the very top of my upper lip, but nothing like pushing my lip against my teeth.

My discomfort with my mask was that some nights it seems to squish the very outer part of my nostrils with the inner bubble part of the mask. I feel like I have to adjust the seal part to get my whole nose inside.

It sounds to me like your mask must too big.
Lisa : )

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