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A multi-layered strategy of vaccines, masks, safe indoor air, testing and treatment will help us navigate this COVID wave.


No one cared who I was until I put on the mask

--person trying to reduce the number of people dying

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[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I need to come up with a new system, my occipital and trigeminal neuralgia is becoming debilitating. I used to survive a full 10 hour work day in a mask, now a 15 minute doctor appointment leaves me in agony for 2 days.

I've been using masking tape to attach a mask to my face, seems to reduce the pressure on my nerves. I'm going to have to swap to contact lenses because I can't tolerate my glasses either (do they make contacts for astigmatism?)

But my skin isn't loving the constant taping (I was using micropore/tape designed for skin, but I haven't found one that doesn't cause a rash.

Maybe eyelash glue?

Anyone else with facial pain or migraines found a good way to wear a mask without triggering anything?

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

What kind of masks are you weraring. It seems like a better mask could at least help a lot.

[-] Kayel@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the very other end of paper masks is military CRBM gas masks with a particulate filter. These have very little pressure differential and you can go for a jog without noticing the difference (except the added frontal weight on your head). But there's lots of options in between. Painters masks are great too.

[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just plain N95 surgical masks, I have a packet of duck bills that I'll rotate to to change the sensation, the KF94s are the most comfortable but recently I haven't been able to find any with decent nose wire, so they are hard to wear with my glasses, tape helps.

A friend made me some fabric masks but they are much heavier than the surgical masks so I rarely wear them, I mostly just have the shoved in my purse and pockets for emergencies, like if my disposable mask gets soiled and I don't have a spare.

Surgically masks and KF94s I can wear for about an hour as long as I have my hair tied up in a high pony, and I use an elastic clip to hold the ear straps to my pony tail. If I don't fix it to my hair I start getting pain in after just 10 minutes.

I was supposed to wear P2s for work, which is how I got into the habit of taping a mask to my face, because I couldn't get a good "seal" without instantly triggering a neuralgia attack using just the ear straps. I left that job so I don't need P2s, but sometimes a client will say they have covid after I'm already sitting next to them, and I wish I had a P2 to protect myself.

[-] guillem@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

They do them and it's a very mature technology. Ask for toric contact lenses.

[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! The optometrist I saw said they don't exist but I thought I'd heard about them, now I know specifically what to ask about when calling around for a new eye doc

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