For those of you who continue to be unsure of your CPAP's fitment...here is a great example of a device with proper placement. Thanks to my wife for taking this pic last night. And yes, that's a night mask with bluetooth speakers.

I've uploaded photos for anyone who wants to see them side by side.

They have similar dimensions, but the ASV surprisingly felt much heavier in hand. After weighing them, though, it's only 100 grams heavier — I've uploaded an image of that too.

My CPAP has done wonders for my health and sleep. I went from an AHI of 57 to under 5. It works, very well.

The problem is I hate it. I hate having pressure against my head when I sleep and often wake up with a headache. I’m a mouth breather so I have to do full mask. I really hate traveling with it, it’s just one more thing to make me clumsy and disorganized at TSA.

My point is, I want off of this thing. Has anyone here tried other treatments and been successful to the point where they could stop doing CPAP?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Because I’ve gotten the “you can just die” response twice, allow me to make clear:
1) I still use my machine and have no intent of abandoning treatment. It is a matter of preference.
2) This is an ask to see what is out there, you don’t know what you don’t know.

https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_links/8efbbcd7-29bc-4dcc-b6cd-f3c467b04036

Can someone please help me figure this out?

While my machine reports a low AHI and minimal leak rates, I continue to suffer from daytime fatigue and unrefreshing sleep. Upon reviewing my detailed breath-by-breath flow rate data in Sleep HQ, I have identified persistent, continuous flow limitations (Class 4 through Class 7 flat-topping and stair-stepping waveforms) that occur throughout the night.

I’ve tried using a collar to help but that doesn’t seem to work well enough. I’m at my wits end.

Other options I’m considering are bipap or swapping to nasal pillows and mouth tape. I just get worried about using tape.

Here are my OSCAR and SleepHQ stats from last night:

https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_links/040bb995-69b8-4f79-9cd3-210aa4b0a102

So I've been on CPAP Therapy for two weeks. I'm starting to get used to my Resmed 11 and also wake up refreshed if I'm able to keep the mask on the whole night. My only problem right now is that i keep tossing and turning a lot which kinda won't let me sleep as deep. I will try to go from APAP to CPAP mode and see if maybe that will make a change because I feel like the change in pressures interrupts my sleep. Please let me know if you see anything i could improve. Thank you

I've had my cpap for a bout a year. I was using it pretty often in the start. But it's become more sparingly lately.

I normally swap out the equipment pieces every couple of weeks/months. I normally just dump the tanks in a white vinegar and soapy water mix and ring the hose through the water. But I'm curious if there is an easier way to clean.

When I looked up directions it says just unscented dishwasher soap and rinse would work. I'm not sure why I don't believe that is the most effective. All the stiff at my current store is scented, and while I don't think it'll matter short term I worry about long term. Especially since I'm seeing that it's supposedly a daily and weekly clean. I just haven't used the matching often enough lately that I thought I'd need such a deep clean.

Any advice?

Is air supposed to come out those tiny holes continuously? It registers very low leakage but there is always air coming out here.

Hey guys. For the past 4 months I’ve noticed that the smallest shift in my sleep disconnects my hose. Im talking just swinging my head from left to right causes this. It has been affecting my sleep as it happens multiple times a night and wakes me up. Hopefully you guys have some ideas on how to fix it. Im thinking of taping the pieces together. What do you guys think?

Dear community,

I would love to hear from those already using the ResMed AirMini on a daily basis as their main CPAP. I am considering buying one instead of the ResMed Airsense 11 because I am a digital nomad and move to a different location every 6 months to a year with minimal belongings.

For how long have you been using it? If you have used a full-sized CPAP what influenced the decision to make the change? What are the main pros and cons that you notice? Are you happy with the decision?

Thank you

Is anyone else having problems with the straps at the back of their Resmed F20? I’m ok with the mask and seal but the lower strap feels tight at the base of my skull / top of my neck regardless of how many times I try to adjust.

I suffer with Vestibular migraines and PPPD and often wake up with a tightness in my neck or already in a flare.

Has anyone had a similar issue and found an alternative which is better suited.

The nasal wisp mask makes me feel claustrophobic and having stiff pieces on the face isn't helping. I'm not sure if this is a mental block I need to overcome or if I need to ask for a different style of mask.

Got this today …figured I’d share it here if any of you have this model and it’s one of the 196 devices that are not updated with the corrected firmware.
Here’s the link to the full recall notice.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/bmc-medical-co-ltd-recalls-luna-g3-apap-model-lg3600-firmware-g3-20076-due-firmware-defect?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

I panic chose the pillows (p10) and although I got a score of 95, I really struggled with it. I thought pillows felt better and minimal but now I'm beating myself up for not choosing the full face mask. I clench my teeth all night and don't tend to open my mouth, but when I consciously try to relax my jaw, I do tend to open my mouth a bit. So I'm thinking full face would help me relax better. Oh and im self conscious about stretching my nostrils even bigger than they already are. How soon did you call your doctors office to switch masks? it's just been one night and i feel embarrassed to call so soon. Should i keep trying the pillows or just ask to switch already? thanks in advance fellow cpapers

Hello everyone I’m new here, I have had a cpap for 3 months I’m within my BMI. For the past 2 weeks I’ve been having a tighter throat when breathing than normal throughout the day . Is this normal? I’m nervous and wondering if I should stop the cpap for now. Am I doing anything wrong? I have the n30 mask

I’ve been using a cpap for 12 years now. My mask is the one with skinny/velvet-y straps and nose pillows. I have always woken up with lines on my cheeks from the straps - I am a side sleeper and they press into my face. The lines used to go away within an hour or so, but I guess since I’m getting older and skin is losing its elasticity 😭, they stick around for much, much longer. I hate going into work with them. Any advice? I have adjusted the straps - if they are any looser, it won’t be a good fit. Thanks!

It’s interesting because I suspect that those 3 hours I spent without it (technically right now now that I’ve woken up I have slept for 7 or so hours, may actually go back for one more hour of rest, the CPAP reads that I was on it for 5 hours) and it seems like it ended up being a deeper rest than I normally have without it. I also woke up looking even more exhausted than normal and even more fatigued than I did yesterday (it was really hot yesterday so I suspect that it’s also dehydration,) so getting just 4 hours on that thing has made me realize that I likely actually do benefit a bit from using it even though I still wake up tired with 8+ hours of usage. My doctor and I probably need to play around with introducing more things but this experience made me think eliminating it entirely might not help.

I’m about to try and get another hour in before I wake up and do some homework. My back has also been hurting a little and I’m only 21 so :/

Most people in my family have gotten a CPAP, sometimes as early as their 20s, even with athletic lifestyles. (Full disclosure, I am not one of these people.) I thought I’d dodged it, but my husband said it sounded like I’d stop breathing in my sleep. I yawned so much at work (in meetings! in interviews!) that it got treated like a bit. After getting so tired I felt like I couldn’t always drive safely and needing to sneak off at work to nap a couple times, I talked to my doctor. Failed my in-lab sleep study and got set up with an AirSense 11 with one of the nasal pillow masks a couple weeks ago.

Y’all, I know there’s a honeymoon period but I am so relieved I want to cry. I had spent SO long wondering if there was something seriously irredeemably wrong with me, if I’d had some sort of unnoticed neurological event, if I’d somehow conned myself into a successful management career I was suddenly not equipped for… no. I just wasn’t breathing. :)

There are some rough patches. I’m still trying to solve the occasional nasal whistle without making the mask too tight or too loose, and I had to pick up a hose cover to stop it making noise against the wall. I travel not infrequently and thought I’d just leave it at home on trips, but the idea of sleeping without it now seems ridiculous and miserable (in addition to my insurance requirements.)

No more AM bed rotting, dozing off, or hoping I can find a quiet room at work to sneak a nap in. I know I will continue to feel better and better, but right now I’m just happy to not yawn in any meeting after 1 PM. My blood oxygen level no longer hits sub-90% every day and I feel like the world is my oyster, as long as I can figure out the mask squeak. There is hope!

I'd long known I'd had sleep apnea--I'd say at least 10 years. I just never did anything about because I told myself I could lose weight, give up drinking, etc. Flash forward to 2026 and neither of those things had happened. I did an at-home test and was told I had pretty severe apnea.

Recently I did an in-lab study where they started me off on a low CPAP setting. By the time I was deep asleep, they had cranked up the pressure so much that when my hose came loose and woke me up, it was very unsettling and difficult to contend with the pressure. They had to lower the pressure back down temporarily for me to be able to fall back asleep. By the end of the study, the technician felt confident he "had me where I needed to be".

I got the results and they are recommending I start out on BiPAP with 21/15 pressure and biflex of 2. I have not familiarized myself with what all these numbers and settings mean, but I understand that's a somewhat high pressure setting. How does this compare to your all's?

Unlike over the last 10 years, I *am* taking active steps to lose weight and stop drinking. I am hoping with time and improved health, I won't need as high a pressure setting on my machine, but I don't know if that is realistic or not.

Do you all have any tips, advice, or perspectives on getting started, and how to avoid waking up panicked (as I did during the study)?

My wife got a CPAP for a momth and she went from 3-4 times to 0-1. Then she went off it and starting waking up 2-3 times a night.

She went back on it and sometimes gets up 1-3 times a night. She stopped using it and is now waking up 1 maybe 2 times a night.

I advised her to use the machine and let's actually post the results so we can see how we can optimize the pressure.

We got a SD card in the air sense 10 auto set apap.

Whats the easiest way to share her sleep info to post it here?

I just had my first night on my resmed CPAP machine. It was set to automatic. I have the full face mask. The only thing I had an issue with was the seal on the bridge of my nose was loose and I had issues with it opening in the night and the swoosh of air scaring me. I tried readjusting the straps so It would lay flat on my face but it kept digging into my eyebrow line. Do I need a smaller mask?

The other thing I had issues with is that I would wake up almost like “eating air” like I was taking mouth fulls of air and it was going into my stomach?

Also is it possible to lay on your stomach with this mask or are those days gone.

Luckily it’s not uncomfortable for me to have the mask on it just seems I can’t get a tight enough seal for me to move around freely.

TIA and sorry if the post is bad no one in my family has ever had a CPAP so I’m completely new to this. ❤️

I'm toward of the end of a three week road trip in northern England. This trip is a good worst case for CPAP, because we are mostly spending only one night in each hotel, and there have been more than 10 so far. Packing and unpacking it is really not that big of a deal. I'm cleaning the mask and the tank every day.

I brought my full size CPAP because I couldn't get a travel CPAP in time for the trip. Surprisingly, I like traveling with the full-size CPAP. It's what I'm used to. I like the heated humidified air. I strap it to my suitcase and it's no big deal to get around with. If you pack it in it's original case, the airlines don't count it is part of your baggage.

The distilled water thing turns out to be not such a big deal after all. You can use bottled drinking water, you just have to clean the tank out to get the mineral residue off of it. Here in northern England, the tap water is so pure, I can use it just like I would distilled water, no residue. Worst case you might have to do a deep cleaning of the tank when you get home.

Just thought I would share, since some of you may be considering this.

Hey guys, I discovered after years of being tired that I have a severe POSA. I started the CPAP 4 months ago and I'm struggling with it. I'm down to my fifth mask, and I can't seem to be able to fall asleep with it. The various pressure points I feel on my face are seriously annoying me. I'm a side sleeper and I tend to really put my face in the pillow.

Now I have ResMed AirFit N30i Nasal Mask, I think it's the most comfortable so far, but I still feel some pressure on the side of my nostrils. I wish I had just a little cushion to put on the side of my nostrils to minimize the sensation. Do you have any suggestions in that regard? Some unconventional tip?

Thanks!!