I've never had any luck with the cpap. I don't know if I didn't give it a long enough time to work or whatever. Recently I have considered the Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) surgery. On Facebook I received this reply from Andrew about his experiences with the surgery and the CPAP. Now I not so sure about the surgery.
"there is something to be said for the CPAP. I was in my late 20's when I tried it and failed. I chose the surgery and had about three weeks of torture with my throat. When that healed I went from a loud snore to a wheeze and that irritated my wife even more....needless to say the surgery did not work. What I was not told was your tissue in your throat that they remove will scar up and build back scare tissue restricting your air way just like pre surgery. 13 years later I am worse with scare tissue and having to force myself to use the CPAP with varying results. I do not have a good answer but would say avoid the surgery, the mouthpieces that dentist make do not treat the apnea problem only help silence part of the snoring. The best thing I have found is CPAP and many people swear by it...but I am still getting attached to it. Andrew"
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Proceed very deliberately before making a decison for surgery. It is often not effective and in every case leaves undesirable permanent side effects. Like Andrew, many others ended up needing CPAP anyway. Now they have experienced the pain and difficult recovery of the surgery and have the permanent side effects and still use CPAP.
A good place to spend a lot of time reading and maybe starting a thread is in the excellent forum cpaptalk dot com.
Good luck,
CPAPer from NC
is there any link between menieres and sleep apnae?
Not that I know of
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