As evidence I was doing fine, for 5 nights, I was in a camp cabin with others. Someone who had not met me previously commented on how quietly I slept.
In the past ~3 days, things started falling apart. While trying to fall asleep, I'll have intermittent, brief mouth leaks. These are occasional bursts of air that come through my closed lips, or I'll do a growl-ish sound caused by my tongue vibrating against the top of the mouth while air flows through it. Sometimes I'll blow spit bubbles.
Before ~3 days ago, all problems were correctible. Now, I find myself incapable of stopping this new problem. While I go to bed with the CPAP on, I have to rip it off within 15-30 minutes, when it's abundantly clear that I cannot correct these problems.
My mouth and tongue did not change! Here's all the recent changes that might correlate but don't seem to be causitive:
- I washed the hoses and headgear.
- Bedsheets were changed.
- I adjusted my hose to wrap around the headband on my headgear. Previously, it would loosely hang--causing the nasal pillow assembly to push down on my incisors--or I'd wrap it up and around a second pillow behind me.
- Cedar allergy season may have started. This does not change my body shape or functioning, and I treat with second-generation antihistamines, so effects are minimal. While I started daily antihistamines about two days ago, there were 1-2 brief periods during my ~2 week "this works great" phase where I also took the same antihistamine, so I doubt the medication is the issue.
- I use nasal pillows included with my Philips Healthcare Respironics Nuance Pro Headgear. (This model cannot be selected on this site's profile.) They are sealing fine.
- CPAP set to 7 from day 1, per findings from my at-the-facility sleep study.
- Humidity at 1. If I go to 2, it starts dripping water in my nose or face.
