Used to scare my wife because I’d stop breathing, especially after drinking. Haven’t drank in 12 years but still use mine. Was missing a part to my cpap machine a month ago & woke up the next day miserable so I drove to a pharmacy to get the part. It makes that big of a difference & I never travel without it, even for one night.
I wen5 on a machine for a couple of months ths, and felt no difference at all- which is another reason I suspect I didn’t have apnea- went for the sleep study and the tech said “yep, you have it bad. A cpap will make up feel amazing”- only it never did. I thunk my sleep recordings pretty much confirmed my suspicion too. My dad on the other hand will fall asleep in a chair, and he will snore and stop breathing quite often- he definitely has it, and needs his cpap.