My husband says I gasp for air during the night. I don t wake up, but sometimes do it more than a few times during a night, he says. I m on my back when it happens, so then he says I just turn over to my side and it doesn t happen then. He has tried to listen to me breathing and thinks I ve stopped breathing, thus causing me to gasp , as he calls it, for air. I saw my Dr. in Tucson some years ago about this. He prescribed wearing a pulse oximeter on my finger for several nights, which I did. The results concluded that I DID NOT have sleep apnea. Yet, my husband and I still both wonder what is causing my gasping for air during the night.