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Nasal sore using Nasal Aire/help

Posted by shellekat on June 26, 2002 at 15:00:51:

A few weeks ago I bought a nasalaire, size medium. I really enjoyed using it and wore it amost a week before I began to have a small nasal sore. It is just on the rim of the inner side of the tip of my left nostril. I had to stop wearing it due to pain it was causing (which is only when wearing it). I figured I would Iet it heal up properly and let it form a kind of callus then possibly I could go back to wearing it eventually when my nose got conditioned to it, with out futher problems.

I have not however, been able to wear the cannula more than a few hours without having to remove it due to pain. I am now trying to figure out if it was perhaps the wrong size. I wonder if maybe it is too small and moving too much? It did slip out sometimes in the night that first week
and also even when I was still awake and I noticed it happen. I really love the Nasalaire and the freedom it let me have while wearing it and would like to solve this so I can go back to using it. The DME that I got it from has only one other patient that has one and was very uninformed on it's use when I got fitted for it. I had used the online size guide and felt like I might be a size large, but accepted the medium sized one from the respitory therapist at the DME.

Could you please give me some ideas about getting this solved so I can go back to wearing the Nasal Aire ASAP.

Thank You Very Much,

Shelle

PS I am on a pressure of 11 and have been on CPAP for 2 1/2
years using a mirage nasal mask w/out much problems.

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