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Gastic Bypass / Lap Band Surgery?

Posted by Thunder Bay on June 05, 2006 at 20:24:28:

Anyone ever have this and find that their apnea, or at least their fatigue / sleepiness diminished? I know two people who had terrible apnea, they were huge, weighed 400 pounds, had the surgery, lost 150 pounds or so, the apnea went away and it changed their lives in terms of the sleepiness / fatigue

I'm not huge, I'm "only" 260, which means i would prob have the lap banding and not the more serious bypass surgery. So the coimplications would be much less severe

I am considering it cos my excessive fatigue / sleepiness began after I gained a bunch of weight. Initially, I went from 175 to 200, then gradually have kept gaining, and the fatigue gets worse and worse

Over five years, I have been on five different c pap machines, saw five different docs, have had many many titrations, tried many deifferent pressurve levels, have never experienced any benefit at all

it strikes me that maybe this might be a good alternative to the surgeries mentioned on the other side, and maybe more effective, since those surgeries have such low success rates

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