Airmini creates allergic reaction?

Hello, everyone.

New member here, and first of all, thanks to bmonster for starting this topic/thread, as well as thanks to all the rest of you who have contributed.

My experience mirrors most of yours, am on ResMed Airsense 11 without problems, and thus decided to invest in an AirMini in January, 2024, mostly for convenience on travels but also as a Plan B in case of AS11 malfunction.

Have relied on the AM twice, first in January, now in June. Horrible post-trauma (the sneezing, the nose dripping, the eye sweeling ... most unpleasant, all of it.) on both occasions. Well, January, I figured "virus season", and June, I thought "pollen" ...

Now, to cut a longer story short, in winter I suffer from rhinitis, while in summer, pollen allergy. To remedy the rhinitis, I use Ipratropium bromide (Atrovent) and vs the pollen, Desloratadine (Aerius).

And here's where I started thinking "What if the effect of those 2 medications on (my) sinuses interact with the lower hydration capacity of the HumidX/ HumidX Plus capsules, prompting a mucus membrane response in the shape and form of the sneezing, dripping, pleghm and so on?"

I e, is it the combination that is the cause?

So, question for you all: Any of you on antihistamine PRIOR to "allergy reaction" episodes AFTER employment of the AirMini?

Great hypothesis, but in my case, I was on no medications or supplements. Of course, after the first few times I took antihistamines to counter what I thought was a massive allergy attack (which had zero effect, of course).

I simply stopped using my AirMini a year ago. I either go without it when I travel for work (I don’t have apnea, but use CPAP for shoring therapy), or take my AirSense10 when traveling with my wife. Haven’t had an “AirMini” attack in that year.

With the attacks, they happened with the HumidX filter and without.

Claritin did not seem to help in alleviating the AM symptoms. I took it after the symptoms started figuring it would knock it out quickly, but it didn’t.

One thought I had was it may be caused by the air pressure set at mask setting going through my nasal pillows.

Who is using nasal pillows vs mask and experiencing these symptoms?

I am. The AirFit N30 pillow(ish) mask. With the correct setting. Still ill ...

And as a lot of people have posted about, antihistamine post-AM usage appears to have a most limited, if any, effect.

Hence my interest in whether any pre-AM antihistamine usage had occured/was the case (as with me), sensitizing the mucus membrane.

I don’t think it makes a difference….there is something in the machine or the filters that triggers this awful reaction….again, I get nowhere with ResMed or my personal Apnea supplier on this….it just reinforces how difficult it is for consumers to establish that a product is faulty. I am still totally enraged that I wasted so much money on this product.