I had that friggin mask and eventually lost the ability to differentiate smells.
Life insurance rates went through the roof because of that test and diagnosis.
I stopped wearing it when I lost weight.
My wife says I don’t snore or wake her up when I would gasp for air anymore.
I tell anyone who is thinking about taking that test, DON’T. Could you lose weight and see if that helps?
Learn to use the CPAP machine. It’s not that hard.
Any sort of surgery is getting more and more risky, between woke medical schools, untreatable infections...etc.
After years of resisting it, I now try using the CPAP Mask.
I say try, because I will go to bed wearing it, but around three or four hours later, I usually find myself awakening with the Mask off and at times, still clutched in my guilty hand.
Usually, though, by that time, my mouth is very dry anyway, so I leave it off for the rest of the night.
The Mask serves as a good way for me to drift off to sleep in first part of the night.
Surgeries like this scare me to death. If there’s an adverse outcome, you can’t tell the doc “Put it back the way it was.” It’s a one-way street, like “gender affirming” mutilations.
Hurts just thinking about it.
I got the surgery. Took me 3 weeks before I could tollerate anything more than tepid water in small swallows. Lost 25 lbs.
Still cant handle anything spicy. Taco Bell mild sauce is all I can candle now.
Dont snore though and get a full nights rest. Still have high Blood pressure though.
I had sleep apnea surgery in 1999. Tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy and removed some tissue from the back of the soft palate.
I had allergies so my sinus doctor said I wasn’t a good candidate for the CPAP plus he said I didn’t want to be cleaning that machine every day for the rest of my life.
The one downside of the surgery is that if I cough while eating it goes up into my sinuses, Pork Rinds can really get me because they crunch into a powder and if I’m not careful and that goes up in my sinuses, I’ll be coughing and sneezing for 15 mminutes.
I’ve had several doctors trying to get me to do surgery.
I tell them that the reason surgery will not work for me is simple.
My jawbone is too small for my face.
It pushes my tongue back into my throat.
The only thing that they can do is shatter my jawbone and wire it back up larger than it is.
Then, pierce my tongue and attach it to the jaw, and hope it stretches out.
Needless to say, the odds of this succeeding are zero.
I use CPAP every night, I can’t sleep without it.
50% of CPAP is effective. I studied how they made the anti- snore mouthpiece, bought a mouth protector at Walmart for $15, and shaped it with a Dremel tool.