learntosleepwell

I agree. Mouth taping by itself will not prevent sleep apnoea. But after you have learned to reduce the volume of air you breathe by only breathing through your nose mouth taping is an effective tool to maintain during sleep the reduced volume of air breathed nasally. Also sleeping on either side ( never on your back) and in an elevated position is highly recommended. I discuss my experience over the past decade on my website www.learntosleepwell.com

In my experience what you are experiencing may not be strange at all. The true test of the quality of your sleep is whether you wake refreshed and whether you have energy to carry out your normal daily activities. Being drowsy during the day is a sure sign that your body is not oxygenated. I learned how to control my severe OSA by completely changing how I breathed. The Buteyko method taught me to change from mouth breathing to nasal breathing. I also changed from a chest breathing to breathing with my diaphragm. If you change how you breathe through the day then it is likely to carry over to how you breathe at night. The problem with CPAP is that it provides symptomatic relief as no treatment of your breathing occurs during the day. I also learned to breathe less and this helped my blood oxygen saturation. I underwent 2 sleep studies before and after I learned Buteyko Breathing. It is all detailed in my book Breathless Sleep... no more. I have trained as a breathing re-Educator as I do not want others to suffer as I did. I have been free from OSA for almost 10 years now.