Went to second sleep study Wednesday night, this time I wore positive pressure air mask. 
Thursday Midnight: 1st mask + sleeping on back = fail.
2AM: 2nd mask + sleeping on side = success!
Slept until 8:30, awoke exhausted but was WIDE awake in about 10 minutes.
Astonishing sense of jetlag being that awake in the morning.  Not normal protocol for me.
2 hours later, intense vertigo.  Couldn't walk or move.  Went to sleep.  As I fell asleep I experienced loud screeching in left ear for split second.  Fruitless search for bed parrots.  Fell asleep for 1 hour.
Awoke with vertigo, called sleep center.  They said "Never heard of such a thing."  Escalate to more senior doctor, still "Can't be related to mask.  Go to doctor/ER."
6PM, Sue takes me to walk-in clinic.  They have no idea, prescribe Dramamine for vertigo.
I take Dramamine, sleep for unknown amount of time, move to living room and sleep there for unknown reason.  Lots of nightmares. 
Friday AM: Awaken with tingling face and hands, see colorful patterns.  Too exhausted for work/driving.
Told employer "Going for full-body wax, big job, overnight stay required on Thursday, need vacation day for recovery."  Will need to use sick day - exhaustion, disorientation, mild vertigo, memory loss.  Patterns and tingling (hypoxia) subside.
Now writing like Rorschach from Watchmen.
Hope to find better sleep clinic that is familiar with vertigo side-effect, another study with mask.
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