03-02-2017, 05:05 AM
I used to wear a full nose/mouth mask with a CPAP that was not Auto and I would rip it off in the middle of the night. I felt like I couldn't exhale and would wake up and rip the mask off and go back to sleep. That was my first experience and I stopped using it after about two months. I finally went back after a year of continuous suffering from tiredness and headaches. The second test was with a take home machine. It was an auto CPAP machine. I didn't feel like I was drowning when I used it. I had changed insurance providers before the take home test. the sleep therapist and ear nose and throat specialist went over my MRI or X-rays and physically looking at my throat and nasal cavity. The sleep therapist went over the machine options and masks. They figured out that I needed only a nose "mask" and not full mask.