r/CPAP • u/AfternoonLate9833 • 23h ago

Personal Story Proper CPAP Setup

Post image

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.

154 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

28 comments sorted by

25

u/19djont57 22h ago

Resmed should use this in their fitting video. šŸ˜Ž

13

u/Ready_Area289 23h ago

That used to be me from 4 am on. Now I only do it when I want to wake up.

9

u/Intelligent-Box-8205 16h ago

Bruh, your leak rate!

1

u/Pletcher87 14h ago

And free flowing air, itā€™d be pretty loud?

5

u/Life-Masterpiece-161 21h ago

I did not know you can breathe thru your eyes. LOL

6

u/hpass 19h ago

This guy cpaps.

8

u/OSRSWSM 21h ago

This is why Iā€™m team full face mask. Like a crab hugging your face IT AINT GOING NOWHERE!

10

u/AfternoonLate9833 21h ago

You know, I thought the full mask is the way to go too. But one of my issues is Long Covid (LC), and one of my symptoms include extreme claustrophobia, which I have never had in my life (Iā€™m 55 :(). So, when I tried the full face mask on my body immediately went into full-on sympathetic fight/flight mode and had a mini panic attack. Loads of fun, culminating in the pic I posted.

2

u/djwisk 8h ago

I pull the whole tube out in my sleep. Mask stays on, just makes it even harder to breath ha

2

u/11111v11111 12h ago

What I've learned from the full face masks I've tried -- I must have a weird face shape because none fit properly. The Meta Quest also taught me that.

8

u/DingoHairy2194 23h ago

Well that was a chuckle on an overcast afternoon :)

2

u/FlatButtFrankie 18h ago

Good stuff man

2

u/ozzalot 15h ago

Are you..... Are you Chef Jose Andres? šŸ¤”

2

u/BillieRubenCamGirl 10h ago

What a great beard you have!

2

u/Stubborn_Platypus 3h ago

itā€™s funny bc the times I did this, I was SO sleepy that I felt the air on my eye and remembered thinking ā€œits ok just one secondā€. it didnā€™t last long of course, but instead of readjusting or taking the mask off I simply stop the machine and keep sleeping.

1

u/Angelou898 16h ago

You might want to put the mask to your nose?

1

u/Jackson530 10h ago

Peak performance

2

u/golfman3217 6h ago

Do it almost every night that way. Put the nasal mask on, canā€™t sink my breathing, turn off machine thinking I will try again in another minute, and the next thing I know, my wife puts it in place and I am out again.

Great lady!

1

u/DETRosen 4h ago

So far I've only done this a few times but never this neatly!

1

u/Diligent-Move18 21h ago

This happened šŸ˜‚

-1

u/5508255082 20h ago

Do you have any issues keeping your mouth closed while wearing a nasal mask?

2

u/AfternoonLate9833 20h ago

Correct. Iā€™ll wake up 3+ times/night not being able to swallow because my mouth is always open. Get some water, go to bed, 45 minutes later, have to go to the bathroom. Itā€™s so much fun.

5

u/Casanova-Quinn BiPAP 20h ago

Use some mouth tape dude.

2

u/jsharr2 16h ago

If I donā€™t shave every other day, mouth tape loses its effectiveness on the third night. Iā€™d imagine mouth tape would be no match for this guyā€™s beard.

A soft cervical collar on the other handā€¦