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Medline Industries, Inc. Announces CPAP Partnership with Bleep LLC
Co-branded Sleep Apnea Solution brings Sleep Science to Healthcare Patients NORTHFIELD, Ill., Oct. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Medline and Bleep LLC., a leader in sleep apnea solutions, announced today they have partnered to co-brand and distribute the DreamPort® Sleep Solution, the smallest and lightest CPAP mask-solution in the world, to the hospital and post-acute care markets. “Our partnership with Bleep strengthens Medline’s portfolio of patient-centered solutions linked to improved outcomes,” said Tim Finnigan, respiratory division president at Medline. “This particular CPAP solution simplifies care, improving efficiency and experience for the healthcare staff while enhancing consistency of care.” “We couldn’t be more excited to work together with Medline to accomplish their goal of Advancing the Health of Healthcare,” said Stuart Heatherington, Founder and CEO of Bleep. “We value Medline’s commitment to customers, organizational strength and dedication to improving patient outcomes, and we look forward to our future growth together.” The patented DreamPort® Sleep Solution uses hypoallergenic medical grade adhesive strips to reduce the risk of leak and hold the DreamPorts in place under the nose for optimized comfort. They are easy to apply, do not leave marks on the face, fit every nose shape perfectly and don’t constrict movement, enabling patients to sleep in any position. For more information, visit www.bleepsleep.com/the-solution/. About Medline Medline is a healthcare company: manufacturer, distributor and solutions provider focused on improving the overall operating performance of healthcare. Medline works with both the country’s largest healthcare systems and independent facilities across the continuum of care to provide the clinical and supply chain resources required for long-term financial viability in delivering high quality care. With the size of one of the country’s largest companies and the agility of a family-owned business, Medline is able to invest in its customers for the long-term and rapidly respond with customized solutions. Headquartered in Northfield, Ill., Medline has 20,000+ employees worldwide and does business in more than 90 countries. Learn more about Medline at www.medline.com. About Bleep LLC Bleep is a sleep science company dedicated to providing those suffering from sleep apnea with a convenient and easy-to-use solution to help them get the sleep they need. Headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC, Bleep uses innovative technology and inspired PAP designs to create the most comfortable and effective sleep solutions on the market. Learn more about Bleep at www.bleepsleep.com/.
Learn moreThe Life Cycle of Idiopathic Somethingsitis and a Bag of Chips
Patients show up for annual checkups all the time and come away with the diagnosis of Idiopathic Somethingsitis. Idiopathic is an excellent word. It’s used to single out unknown spontaneous conditions that are making you sick. Cool right? It gets thrown around all the time in the medical community. It’s like a crutch for doctors. It’s the hold by beer of unexplainable diagnoses. “Your Johnson is falling off, Mr. Jones, and I don’t know why. You have Idiopathic Penisattachmentsitis. Completely rare, because I just made it up, but will require you to take these blue pills, I only learned about last week, for the rest of your life…” There’s Idiopathic Hypertension (Unexplainable High Blood Pressure), Idiopathic Hypersomnolence (Unexplainable Excessive Sleepiness), Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy (Unexplainable Heart Failure). A host of Idiopathic things exist. But when heavy CPAP patients unexplainably stop using therapy and they start having comorbidities of obesity, which is a big set of words here for things making you sick because you’re overweight, the light doesn’t go on. They classify everything else they don’t understand as idiopathic. Why not Idiopathic AntiCPAPsitis (Unexplainable Stoppage of CPAP Use). I made that up right now, but it’s as real a thing as there is. Wouldn’t you prefer having that in your chart if you stopped using CPAP instead of CPAP Failure? It’s like they’re stamping it on your forehead. “Mrs. Smith, you are a CPAP Failure. Your health is never going to amount to anything in your life if you don’t straighten up and breathe right. I mean it. At checkout, have the nurse write that on your face somewhere and see me in two weeks.” Ask anyone who wears CPAP that stopped using CPAP and most will tell you it was because of the mask. It was too tight. It made me claustrophobic. Breathing on it was hard. I couldn’t catch my breath. It hurt my face. We’ve heard them all. There’s no one perfect mask to answer all of these problems that patients face. They are all real though. CPAP masks have a host of issues and pain points that readily are brought up in any discussion among patients. They are quick to point out what caused them to switch a mask for another. The diehard CPAPers have probably tried at least five masks in their life before they found one they could live with. The important thing is that they were encouraged to not give up by their doctor or loved one. They kept going back and swapping out masks. Many of the reasons associated with CPAP “failure” are due to the interfaces being uncomfortable. And uncomfortable masks are direct extensions of poor fit. The wrong size destroys the lifecycle of a PAP user all the time. Sometimes it’s laziness on the part of the clinician. Sometimes it’s lack of time. Sometimes it’s the patient’s face. Sometimes a DME won’t carry much in the way of product line because they can’t afford it, so the selection is limited. Sometimes they’re so loyal to a brand or pricing they refuse to carry options. It’s the ugly side of the business, but it’s true in cases. It puts the patient at a disadvantage. Tasked with finding the right mask starts with comfort. Every industry person can admit that. Comfort drives compliance. If they don’t, then ask them if they would enjoy wearing an Iron Maiden on their head at night? The answer will be no. “Then find me something comfortable. I refuse to be a CPAP Failure!” is your followup. Something that fits well and doesn’t leak. Something that doesn’t have to be tight. Something lightweight. Something with minimal skin contact. Something called Bleep – DreamPort Sleep Solution. We’re all of that and a bag of chips. So avoid the dreaded diagnosis of Idiopathic Somethingsitis and don’t fall victim to the destructive lifecycle of CPAP Failure. Do something about it. Check us out and try it for yourself. If you love your CPAP unit, but think the mask is uncomfortable, contact us at Bleep. We may be able to help put the comfort back in your therapy and give you a reason to resume it. We are the creators of Bleep – DreamPort Sleep Solution, an alternative to traditional CPAP masks. Visit us at bleepsleep.com and check out our Crowdfund initiative. We Give a Bleep About Sleep.
Learn moreIron Maidens and Other Reasons for CPAP
Nobody grows up masterminding ways to look like Darth Vader when they go to bed. Except for maybe kids. My seven-year-old crashes in the Sith Lord’s helmet every other night. It’s a substitute pillow to him. But kids are different. They’re still impressionable. Trying to figure out who they are. What they like. Why all this hair’s growing all over me? But adults are more stringent. We want comfortable things to help us sleep. And CPAP patients are no different. We crave the same kind of rest too. We’re freaking mammals after all. It’s innate from birth. Why else did we sleep so much as babies? Our brains process the day’s events there and keep us sane. So who in the world wants to have an Iron Maiden strapped to their head to sleep? About half the sleep apnea patients in the world. That’s who. CPAPpers don’t show up to a doctor’s office and suggest: “You know what? I think I want to sleep with a bucket on my head. The old ball and chain wants me to look like I’m bobbing for apples all night long. Got anything close to that?” CPAP patients desire comfortable sleep. For decades now, CPAP masks have been notorious for anything except that. Before, when we didn’t know what awe-inspiring rest was like until CPAP, we didn’t care. But now that we do, we keep our eyes peeled for something better. That’s why I created Bleep – DreamPort. I wanted more comfort, but with zero leaks. Something that had no headgear and didn’t rip up my face. The alternative wasn’t possible; I couldn’t go back to not using CPAP. That wasn’t an option. It’s not an option for anyone else either. It goes against why we started CPAP in the first place. And we all have our stories. I’ve told hundreds of people what led me to CPAP. You see, I wasn’t a patient to start. No doctor figured out I had it. For that matter, I didn’t even need therapy. Let me explain. I had been working in the hospital at the time for three years, and an older gentleman came in for a sleep study one night. Slender guy, mid 60’s, a buck-fifty soaking wet. Looked nothing like a sleep apnea patient. Chart said high blood pressure. That’s it. His side profile suggested a little retrognathia, meaning his jaw recessed too far back into his face. Your typical weak chin. He looked pretty sprite, except for the massive bags under his eyes. Those were death warmed over. I got him checked in, hooked up and to bed pretty early. Ten minutes after sleep, he hit his first REM period and did a swan dive on O2 sats. Oxygen levels tanked to the mid-40% range. One of the worst patients I’ve ever seen. And remember, he was a small guy. Twenty pounds lighter than me at the time. Anyway, I put CPAP on him because he met emergency SPLIT protocol and it took about 2 hours for him to get back to sleep. On CPAP, his sleep was downright excellent for approximately 1.5 hours. Then he woke up and had to pee. Once back in bed, another hour to get back to sleep, again on CPAP. This followed with another hour of great sleep and stable oxygen levels. Guy’s fixed for sure, no doubt about it. He woke up again and had one more pee break and groaned getting back in bed when I put the CPAP back on. “This thing’s not comfortable, and I’m not sleeping.” Nothing new there. That’s the typical response a patient gives us, right? He finally got back to sleep again for thirty to forty minutes and woke up with a headache. The first thing he said when I came in to unhook him was, “No way in hell I’m wearing that thing.” I shared with him it’ll get better, give it a chance. You slept great when you were asleep! And he did. He walked out, and I thought that was the end of that. Turned out a month later in peer review the doctor shared with me he had a stroke. Pretty bad one, too. Couple weeks after that, he was back again. Only this time, his wife was pushing him in a wheelchair. She looked long and hard at me, then him and declared, “He’s going to wear CPAP now. Aren’t you?” With drool on his chin from the sagging side of his face, he mumbled a deflated, “I don’t have a choice. She tells me I can’t die.” Finally, he had his reason for wearing CPAP. That day spewed up some facts for me. We are fragile beings. Illness is apart of life. We either get ready to do some CPAPing or get prepared to do some dying because sleep apnea kills. It got me thinking about my family too. My grandfather barreled down the train tracks every night. Overweight, he snored like a bear. My dad turned out having sleep apnea the year before. Mom suffered a stroke when I was in high school. Shortly after that, my girlfriend’s mother died of a heart attack. That case scared me into starting CPAP. My family showed a history. And, if we learn anything from history, it’s that it repeats itself. But we all have our reasons. I’d tell you though; it has kept me healthy and helped me sleep like a rock. Matter of fact, I sleep terribly without it. I feel myself waking up with snore arousals. Now, I wear it for comfort…the comfort it brings my life. And having been wearing the DreamPort, it’s even better. As I said, you can have your cake and eat it too. If you love your CPAP unit, but think the mask is uncomfortable, contact us at Bleep. We may be able to help put the comfort back in your therapy and give you a reason to resume it. We are the creators of Bleep – DreamPort Sleep Solution, an alternative to traditional CPAP masks. Visit us at bleepsleep.com and check out our Crowdfund initiative. We Give a Bleep About Sleep.
Learn moreCPAP Commando
Sleeping with Bleep – DreamPort in place of a traditional CPAP mask opens your eyes to what comfort can be. That said, it’s different…but in a great way. When I first created the DreamPort and wore it for the first time, it was for proof of concept. Meaning I threw together a back of the napkin idea at 3:30 in the morning and needed to know it worked. I still remember penciling the sketch together at Pawleys Island eight years ago. Seems like yesterday. I was there at a CEU conference with my wife, who was then a sales rep for one of the leading manufacturers of CPAP. I’m still dumbfounded by the sheer lack of size and scope of what it could mean to CPAP users. True eureka moments don’t come along too often. I loved the fact it had no headgear and what that meant to patients. But what excited me the most, compounded by the lack of headgear, was the fact it shouldn’t leak…in theory. But I had to test it first. That meant a trip to Lowes. Let me be the first to say all great things start in hardware. Problem was, I didn’t know where to begin looking when I started down the aisles. Talk about the blind leading the blind. I stumbled on two copper fittings with flanges after an hour. What amounted to two tubes with thin flat collars on one end. I took an old nasal pillow mask, cut off the entire headgear and trimmed the fat to next to nothing. I wanted lightweight. The mask didn’t matter; I needed something that could hold the fittings until I designed my own. Again, I was shooting for proof of concept. Would it work? Then I bought corn tapes from Walmart. You read that right. The things you used to see on Grandma’s feet that looked like volcanoes of red blistered pain. I wanted the tape, minus the medicine that took off the corns. When I got home, I wedged the brass fittings into the corn tape holes. Then I jammed the slender ends of the brass fittings into the nasal pillow openings to hold them steady. It was crude, to say the least, but it accomplished the goal. It gave me something that could deliver CPAP pressure to my nose. Next, I cleaned off my nose and applied the corn patches over my nostrils, sealing them off completely. Standing in front of the mirror with practically nothing on my head, I was surprised, to say the least. It weighed more than it needed to, but by no fault of my own. Yet, I knew right away it could be considerably lighter. But most important…it was staying on. The true test came in the bed. I connected the short tube from the nasal pillow mask to the main CPAP tube, turned on the blower and waited. In less than a second or two, air ramped up and filled the mask and my nose with 10.5 centimeters of pressure. More surprising than the view of my handiwork in the mirror was the fact it didn’t leak. I climbed under the covers, brain racing with pure joy. Not the same joy as watching a child born, but something akin to it. An idea brought to life. It took two hours for me to get to sleep with it. Not because it was hard to breathe, but because it felt like…not wearing anything. I equate it to sleeping commando for the first time. Feels weird, right, that freedom from constraint? Same here. Quite different in fact from straps tugging at my skin. Gone was the constant pull against my cheeks. The same tug which burned the tip of my nose, because the straps dislodged in my sleep, was now nonexistent. Everything about it offered the feeling of going CPAP Commando. It was a disconnection with my face. By that I mean it felt different having something pull away from my nose instead of pulling into it. As a longtime CPAP user, it caught me off guard. BUT in a good way. You know what I mean. That binding effect of your head encased in mummy’s rags…yeah, that feeling. It had all but disappeared. It was liberating, yet still strange and unfamiliar. CPAP Commando fits. I won’t say I missed the tightness and binding nature of plastic and velcro. I didn’t. The biggest challenge was shutting off my brain. My mind raced a hundred miles an hour thinking of next steps. Lawyer, Engineer, Provisional Patent Filing…I wanted to be selling it next week. Anyway, I did drift off finally. And it was a great night of sleep on the first try with NO LEAK and NO HEADGEAR. Bleep – DreamPort 1.0 took it’s first steps and had enough legs about it to not fall down. All this is to say, it feels completely different than your mask. That’s not a bad thing; we want to be honest with everyone. So, is it right for you? I don’t know. What I do know is we answer the top ten needs that patients want to see change with their masks. But are we for everyone? No, we are not. Not one single mask manufacturer in the world has a mask that works for everyone. Do you like to sleep with the thermostat at 85* and sweat your sheets into a puddle? We can’t help you. You need to be cool and so does your room to help with sweat. Do you wear your makeup to bed? We can’t help you. You have to clean your skin before you apply it. Do you have an incredible sensitivity to adhesive? This might not be for you. 3M makes our hypoallergenic surgical foam tape and it’s great, but for some people, it won’t matter. You might break out. Ask us for a small sample to apply on your skin and see if you have a reaction. Do you love your current mask? Then you’re one of the lucky 1 in 5 people who likely won’t change. Good for you. You found something that works! If you are a FullFace CPAP mask user, we can’t help you. You are welcome to try it though. Lots of CPAP users end up on FullFace masks because some technicians use them as their go-to mask. That’s a whole other Blog I’ll write about. I’ll close with this, other mask manufacturers are going to say bad things about us. They just are. They’ll have sales reps making outrageous claims like, “Yeah, well, we invented the question mark and put the first CPAP on the moon…and I wouldn’t put that Bleep – DreamPort thing on a donkey, but that’s just me.” Guess what? We wouldn’t either. And Dr. Evil’s father actually invented the question mark. Check it out here. True story. However, the big dogs have to eat…er, I mean compete. Protect their own interests, if you will. How do they do that, you say? They start by bashing a superior product in hopes of knocking it down a peg. What else do big corporations do to level out the playing field, am I right? It’s part and parcel to the business. Our management team has been in the business for many years and has seen it occur time and time again. But don’t let someone else dictate what you do. I want to be clear, change is hard to administer in our own lives. We’re all great at telling other people what’s wrong, how to fix something and what to stay away from. It’s not always true or in your best interest to trust what’s out there. Make an informed decision on your own. You can do this by supporting our crowdfunding campaign and trial the product yourself at a significant cost reduction. See if you like it for yourself. Honestly, we think you’ll love it, but if you don’t, someone else will, because it might not be right for you. And that’s okay. If you or someone you know is on CPAP and unhappy with their mask, share this blog with them and checkout out our website. You might save a life. Remember We Give a Bleep About Sleep…and so can you.
Learn moreCongratulations! You Have Sleep Apnea!
Sharing is caring. I talked about this in my last BLOG post for a brief moment. I made the statement CPAP patients aren’t stoked to share the fact they’re on therapy. It’s true. And it always has been. CPAP users, with typical silence, bury the inconvenient truth of treatment in the closet. I can’t say for sure why this is, but I can guess. Most of my guesses would involve embarrassment over wearing a mask to sleep. As if anybody other than your bed partner ever sees you sporting one. I get it. It feels funny talking about it, but embarrassed is the wrong way to think about your therapy. CPAP saves lives. Sure, it’s not for everyone, but for a lot us it’s the answer to feeling good and keeping us healthy. If you were a cancer survivor you wouldn’t tell a person diagnosed with cancer, “I wouldn’t sweat that…let it ride another year.” You’d jump all over directing them to the provider that saved your life. Remember the doc who had the brains to diagnosis your cancer, based on that blood work? I bet you do. You probably send them a card every year. The same one who ordered your treatment and saw you through therapy. All the way to “You’re cancer free.” Hearing those magical words is a fountain of goodness. “You suffer from sleep apnea,” is not as hard to swallow as “You have cancer.” I get it. But did you know sleep apnea has definitive links to cancer? Most sleep apnea patients don’t realize this. I’ll give you the brief rundown. If you have sleep apnea, you hold your breath at night. The worse you are, the longer you don’t breathe. When your breathing stops, oxygen doesn’t come into your lungs. It’s partly why some sleep apnea patients are notorious for having headaches. Problem is most patients never learn the byproduct of not getting oxygen is the fact you don’t expire CO2. What’s that you say? Expire CO2? Yes, CO2. It’s called exchanging gases. It’s what your body is good at when you’re awake. But when you’re asleep and suffer from sleep apnea, you’re a terrible conduit for exchanging gases. What does all this mean? I’ll tell you. Sleep apnea is the process of holding your breath. When holding your breath, your heart and lungs keep functioning. By functioning, I mean push vital blood throughout your system. Without blood flow, you’d be, well…uh, dead. Here’s where the science kicks in. With normal breathing, you take oxygen in. Your body burns it up and the byproduct CO2, in all its glory, expires into the world, bad breath and all. But with apnea, no oxygen in means no CO2 out. Your heart and your lungs recycle the CO2, and it builds up in your bloodstream, binding to things like…your brain. Thus the headaches. Headaches associated with sleep apnea, in most cases, are your brain’s way of saying we are choking to death, “Wake the hell up!” Oh, the joy of sleep apnea, right? Here’s the kicker though. Having all that CO2 in your system is harmful. It keeps building up throughout the night, stressing your body out. BUT it also changes your blood chemistry while you sleep. And the magic of chemistry tells us that CO2 loaded environments lead to acidosis. Acidosis, you say? Yeah, because your body’s chemistry should be neutral. We are healthier creatures when we are neutral. What does all this mean in the big scheme of things? I’ll tell you. Cancer cells thrive in high PaCO2 environments. The University of Wisconsin did a study on cancer and sleep apnea several years ago. They proved the association between these two things: sleep apnea and death from cancer are like peas and carrots…they just love to hangout together. Go Badgers! All this is to say, having sleep apnea is not embarrassing. Embrace it. Somebody helped you figure it out beyond a reasonable doubt that you suffered from apnea. You talking about it with others could help a friend or family member. Plenty of examples of paying it forward have helped out. One patient, I ran a sleep study on, posted his hookup on Facebook on the night of his sleep study. Wires and everything, he loved the whole process. He was getting answers. And boy was he bad. SPLIT Night bad. I put CPAP on him in the same evening. Later, he shared something with me on a followup visit. His Facebook post elicited an old college roommate to ask about what a sleep study was. He explained it to the friend, and that friend thought he suffered from the same symptoms. It inspired the guy to get his sleep study. It turned out, according to his doctor, he suffered from the worst case of sleep apnea he had ever seen. My patient saved a life. I don’t want to sound like Casey Kasem with a “Long Distant Dedication,” but I challenge you to do the same thing. Hit the share button on this Blog with your friends or repost it on a social media page. You never know who’s paying attention. And trust me, there are plenty of people I have talked to about Bleep – DreamPort Sleep Solution that did not know what CPAP was, not to mention sleep apnea. Market research indicates everyone on CPAP is likely to have a friend, family member or acquaintance on therapy…or, perhaps, failed out on it. So, talk it up. You may save a life. Learn more about Bleep – DreamPort Sleep Solution by visiting our website and support our crowdfund initiative here (link to Bleep). And if you know someone on CPAP that’s struggling with therapy or recently gave up, tell them about us. We may be able to assist. Remember, We Give a Bleep About Sleep.
Learn moreForget New, It’s Better We Need.
New CPAP masks sell. Everyone in the industry screams that mantra from the rooftops. That’s why so many new ones come out every year. Manufacturers know people are looking for ways to solve pain points in their lives. Have poor cell phone reception, what do you do? Change service providers. Cable bill blew up? Cut the strings with the cable company and buy an antenna. That’s what consumers do. They switch to things making life easier and more enjoyable. After all, we are creatures of comfort. Make us more comfortable, and we curl up in a ball and languish in it. We’re like cats that way. CPAP patients are no different from any other consumer, except they have a lot more pain points in any given discussion. Several essential takeaways in Bleep’s market research shocked us. I’m going to discuss a few here. For starters, CPAP patients posted a terrible net promoter score of 19.6%. Net Promoter Score, in a nutshell, means the likelihood a consumer will recommend a product they use to another consumer. This message is critical when talking about brand marketing. More on Net Promoter Score can found at Medallia. A score of 19.6% means patients using CPAP masks are not very fond of them, as less than 1 in 5 would recommend their interface to another user. To be honest, they are often dissatisfied and don’t tell others about what they use. Well, you say, that’s not shocking at all! Have you ever seen a CPAP mask, Mr. Blogger Pants? My answer to that is: Does Darth Vader sleep in your room? You betcha. And I’m a 20-year user, and they suck. But the problem doesn’t stop here. Dig a little deeper for context, and you find a revealing answer. Merely stating someone doesn’t like something is too easy. I mean if you don’t care for something, you stop using it or give it away, right? Think of fruitcake. I hate fruitcake. It should be called fruit-brick. But my health doesn’t depend on fruit-brick getting me through the day without dying. At least the last time I checked it doesn’t. ( By the way, fruit-brick is good for one thing. A doorstop. We used one for a whole year. Beyond that, they belong in the trash). Seriously, though, while a fruitcake has no future impact on my health, my PAP therapy does, and that’s why a mask solution is vital to me and all other sufferers of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Is it safe to say very little fondness exists for CPAP masks? Research shows patients hardly ever suggest a mask they wear to another consumer. That neighbor, the one across the street they know use CPAP…they’re out of luck. It’s not like they run around telling their friends they wear CPAP anyway. In one way, CPAP patients belong in the same category as those with ED, meaning no one talks about sleep apnea…or ED. Except for Cialis…and those two people holding hands in the dumb bathtubs. Really, who’s got two tubs on a beach? Facts are facts…people hate their CPAP masks. And plenty of reasons exist why they dislike them: Not finding something that seals on the face disappointed the most. In fact, seal ruled the roost in our marketing. It was the number one opportunity for satisfaction of CPAP among men and women. Comfort was the number 2 opportunity for satisfaction among all users. People want a comfortable mask. It’s a simple request. Mask leaks freaking annoy everyone in the bed. As a 20 year user of CPAP, it’s the worst thing to deal with as a patient and a bed partner. It was the number five opportunity for satisfaction among men and women using CPAP. Who doesn’t like sleeping next to a wind tunnel all night long? My wife. That’s who. Marks on your face in the morning? Oh, JOY! Who doesn’t like looking as if a three-year-old drew on your mug with a permanent red marker until 12 pm? Drum roll please, it’s the number three value driver among women. That’s right, stepping out of the house and NOT looking like the creature from IT seemed to be pretty significant. Ladies, you know what I mean. (Insert GIF link of IT Creature) via GIPHY Straps and all the joy they bring to PAP therapy…that’s a BIG NOT. Such a BIG NOT that it was 4th among opportunities for satisfaction among all CPAP users. They didn’t want anything causing sores, chapped skin, redness, etc. Nasal Bridge Breakdown or Pressure Ulcers. Doesn’t sound pretty, right? It’s not. Imagine the skin stretching across the bridge of your nose or cheeks splits open. Painful, right? Usually, it’s caused by a tight mask, cleaning or allergic reactions to the silicone.Breathe.ersjournals.comdiscusses the topic in more detail. It’s been my personal experience as a technician that it’s most associated with wearing a mask too tight. The force needed to create an airtight seal should not cause discomfort. That was number 8 among value drivers for all CPAP patients. As you can see, there are tons of pain points among CPAP users. What’s cool about Bleep is we address every problem you read about above. That’s not a typo either. In fact, DreamPort Sleep Solution answers the top 10 needs CPAP patients say need to be changed. Do you want to improve your experience with CPAP? Check out our website and crowdfund video for answers on how We Give a Bleep About Sleep. NO HEADGEAR. NO STRAPS, NO LEAK, NOTHING TO HURT THE NOSE, NO MARKS ON YOUR FACE, MORE COMFORT, BETTER SEAL, LESS NOISE, BETTER SLEEP. These are what patients want in a CPAP interface. The market research supports it in spades. Isn’t it time you got a better night of sleep with Bleep? Let us show you how.
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