Does Mouth Taping Work?

Regina Rodríguez-Martin
5 min readMar 24, 2024

I’m actually getting good results.

I’ve spent the past 30 nights taping my mouth shut when I go to sleep. Why the heck would someone risk suffocating in the night? Actually, if your body truly began to suffocate while you were asleep, you’d wake up. That’s what sleep apnea is all about. If the body really can’t get oxygen, it yanks you back to consciousness. People with sleep apnea don’t remember waking up repeatedly all…

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Regina Rodríguez-Martin

Mexican American. Chicagoan. Generation X. Relishes questions of human behavior. Nobody’s mother and nobody’s wife. Blog: https://www.reginachicana.com.