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Something strapped to my face, and I sleep on my side
This cluster is about the shape of pillows and nothing else. Every situation in it involves prescribed medical equipment, and none of what follows is advice about that equipment, your therapy, your pressure settings, your mask fit or your diagnosis. Those belong to the clinician who prescribed it. What a pillow index can honestly tell you is where the hard parts are and what a surface has to do to get out of their way.
I side-sleep in a CPAP mask
A mask frame sits proud of the face and does not compress. On a surface that has already bottomed out, the frame is le…I use a nasal-pillow or nasal-cradle mask
A smaller frame than a full-face mask, so it needs less clearance — but it sits directly under the nose, where a pillo…
What a pillow can be asked to do here
| loft in measured range | Pillow loft within the range your own measurement implies. This is first for every constraint in this cluster, because no surface is soft enough to rescue a pillow your head has already flattened. |
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| conforming top layer | A surface able to displace further than the object protrudes — typically a dual-density build with a soft top over a supportive base. |
| position tolerant support | Support that does not depend on hitting one exact spot, so rolling over does not mean re-finding a position in the dark. |
| contact removal preferred | An opening or cut-out that removes contact outright, rather than spreading the load. The right answer when the object cannot compress and the tissue under it is the problem — a healing piercing, or a mask frame that has nowhere else to go. |