I’m coming to the horrifying realization that my main problem all along has been chronic fatigue. I have all 8 of the core symptoms and 5 of the 12 supporting symptoms. It’s over. My life is truly over. No matter how much I use the CPAP, all it’s going to do is keep me from feeling winded and keep the scary suffocation spells away. It’s never going to restore my energy. I’m always going to be forced to exist but never allowed to live. A fatal cancer diagnosis would have been preferable to this!

Four times, as I was first falling asleep with my mouth taped, air got caught in my mouth and woke me up. So I ripped off the tape and put a nose strip on intending to remove the mask as soon as the mouth farts got to be too much but amazingly, I slept the night through and got an AHI score of just 3. However, due to the chronic fatigue, I’m still tired. I now know damn well I have that. I just know it. :-(