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I visited my DME supplier yesterday and gave back the Dreamwear. I tried on the Air Fit F10 and 20 and the Simplus. The Simplus felt best, so I went home with it. I can try as many as I like before deciding on one that will work best for me. I really enjoyed the Simplus last night. Very comfortable. Here is last night's Sleepyhead data.

I, too, an a tummy sleeper at some points during the night. I find that I am able to do so with a full face mask. I wear mine a bit tighter than I would like and when I tummy sleep, I put my arms under my pillow and rest my face close to one sedge of the pillow so my mask is protruding out from the side of the pillow and my ears and head are resting on the pillow. The mask stays on and I am able to sleep that way.

OK, so I have the Dreamstation at home and have used it since last Friday. I noticed that it is a bit noisy upon exhale (low bass type moan) but I put a padded mailer under the machine and that helped quite a bit. I don't think the Dreamwear mask is going to work for me. I side sleep quite a lot and I don't think having the gel air passages on the sides of my head works out too well. Also, the part that covers my nostril area is somehow pinching me between the nostrils and I wake up with pain in that area. I also have come to realize that I do not want something covering my nostril area even if it has holes cut out to enable breathing through the nose. I am far more comfortable in my Quattro Air full face mask, as it leaves my nose unobstructed. I am going back to my DME supplier this Friday afternoon to try on the Airfit F20, The Airfit F10 (Made by Resmed) and the Simplus (Made by Fischer & Paykel). If none of those feel right, I am going to just stay with my Quattro Air mask, as I have learned to sleep well with it and have no leaking problems.

I will post some sleepyhead data in a few days.

Good call. Perhaps I will go that route.

Thanks very much for the time you took to type this all out, Sierra. I've read it and will try "upping" the ramp minimum to 8 or 9 and see how that feels. Truth be told, I haven't educated myself on the settings or anything else PAP related since I got the machine. I literally took it home and put on the mask and slept. I am only now getting into looking at results and learning what everything means. Your knowledge is very helpful to me and I appreciate you (and the others in this forum)

Thanks for writing here and explaining that, Sierra.

Thanks for all your help, Sierra and Bonjour. So, to me, it looks like when I get the Dreamstation today, I should keep about the same settings....

6.0 as my starting ramp on A-Flex 12.0 or so on the pressure max

My posts are not showing up in the other threads....

I'm trying to answer you, bon our, and post screenshots, but my posts are not showing up in my thread called new insurance

Windows 10. Thanks a bunch for the help. Hopefully these screenshots wil be what you are looking for. I have to crash now. I'll be back on here tomorrow morning.