CPAP PRO "no mask" ?

[swindonstu]

Thanks Patsy

Like you say - missed opportunity perhaps... Although my GF would say that anything that keeps my mouth shut would not be short of miraculous!

[Patsyw]

Stu - No I don`t think it would as it is attached to the top teeth only so your lower jaw would still be free to fall open. Its meant only for nose breathers.

I think the manufacturers have missed an opportunity here - because it would have been easy enough to make the mouth device along the lines of a mandibular advancement device which would have kept the mouth shut.

Patsy

[swindonstu]

Does anyone know if this would be any good for a mouth breather like me? Generally I can't breath through my nose whilst asleep, and I sleep with my mouth open too... Currently I have a face mask (obviously!) and like many, many, many others, am struggling with it...

[Patsyw]

As we've only just launched it here, and clinics tend to take 6-18 months to evaluate a new mask, as of yet there isn't one which stock the CPAP Pro.

But if you let us know your details and your clinic's details, we can specifically write to them and maybe persuade them to try one with you.

James - I sent you a message over a week ago - is it possible for you to reply please.
Patsy

[Patsyw]

Thanks for your suggestions Tigers Fan. I was aware of keeping the mask loose and always start out that way. I don`t know how to explain the consistency of my skin - most peoples skin is dough like, but mine, due to illness and age, is more loose and jelly like. So you can imagine what happens when a mask is placed on a loose jelly! I only have to move the minutest fraction of an inch, the slightest twitch, nose, eye or mouth movement, and its leaking. It wakes me and of course I have to tighten it up. I will try again following your instructions exactly just in case I haven`t managed to get that hovercraft affect.

Its not just the leaking anyway - I also can`t bear anything touching the bridge of my nose - I feel as if I can`t get air in through my nose and then think I`m suffocating. I would like to give the CPAP Pro a try - do you know if its available on the NHS? I`m seeing my Sleep Scientist in November so can ask her but if I know for sure its not available on the NHS, I will have to buy one. This `being ill` is so costly !

Patsy

[James @ Intus]

James - do you know if this Pro mask is available via the NHS. I am reluctant to spend out yet more money on masks that fail, yet still, after all these months, am going through hell with leakage, feelings of being suffocated, straps causing pain. The whole experience is so horrific, I put off going to bed. This Pro Mask looks as if it would allay a lot of my horrors.

Patsy

As we've only just launched it here, and clinics tend to take 6-18 months to evaluate a new mask, as of yet there isn't one which stock the CPAP Pro.

But if you let us know your details and your clinic's details, we can specifically write to them and maybe persuade them to try one with you.

[Tigers Fan]

Patsyw - high leakage and straps causing pain tell us for sure that you are over-tightening the straps! Loosen the straps until the mask floats over your face - let the cushion skirt do its work as in a hovercraft.

Without using straps at all - just holding the mask - find the place over your face where the mask is most comfotable and leak free. Up a bit, down a bit till you find the place. Let the mask move away from your face untiol a leak just begins - then rock the mask, a bit pushed toward your nose, a bit pushed toward your chin - till the leak just stops. Remember where the mask is relative to your nose and chin - very precisely remember. Now replicate that using the straps. Play with looseness to find comfort without leakage.

TF

[Patsyw]

James - do you know if this Pro mask is available via the NHS. I am reluctant to spend out yet more money on masks that fail, yet still, after all these months, am going through hell with leakage, feelings of being suffocated, straps causing pain. The whole experience is so horrific, I put off going to bed. This Pro Mask looks as if it would allay a lot of my horrors.

Patsy

[martin]

Sigh, i start liking the sleepweaver and something else cuter comes along. Is peeping at the pics of it wrong? Am i being disloyal, will she know i've been thinking of going out with another mask? Will she strangle me in my sleep tonight? Not sure if i like the idea of sleeping with someone poking their fingers up my nose and air blowing out of them. How far up do they go and how much force must they be exerting on the inside of my nostrils, don't want to try it, find it's wonderful and realise after several years that my nostrils have stretched to the point that i am using a goodyear radial to seal the edges of my mask. (I am guessing thats a real tyre)

[Grumpy]

drool

Suspect I would have the same problem with the no-mask as I had with a MAD; constant drooling. Not a pretty sight...

[Tom @ Intus]

The CPAP Pro has now got CE marking and is available on EU-PAP.co.uk, we'll begin shipping them early next week so you can pre-order them now.

We've already received orders for this mask despite it only being on sale for a couple of hours, so there's a clearly a lot of interest in this mask.

It's been very well received in the US so we're looking forward to seeing how popular it will be over in the UK and Europe now. Anyone planning to order one, or has anyone done so already?

There's a brief new blog entry about the launch too. [/plug]

[Tigers Fan]

Once had to get seven deep sea tankers past the USCG in order to get them re-flagged Kuwaiti to American - a large team including me, that is. Every single piece of safety equipment had to be 'Made in America' before they'd accept it - lifeboats to engine room flood fire extinguishing. Then everything in the accommodation had to be equivalent to 'Made in America' if not actually American. All very well, but an American crew promptly blew a large chunk of side out of one ship.

The real reason - jobs for Americans, of course. They are just more brass necked about it than we are!

TF

[James @ Intus]

Getting something FDA approved is pretty difficult so you can bet the makers of this one have done their homework.

[tori0611]

LOL

I didn't mean to start an international war LOL, u 2 are funny!

[Fredxx]

Trust me, the Americans are even more parochial when it comes to anything made outside their boundaries!!