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Re: Snoring without apnea?


Posted by sean on November 14, 1999 at 21:04:51:

In Reply to: Re: Snoring without apnea? posted by Cyril on November 14, 1999 at 20:10:07:

I would have to agree. The snoring sound is usually created when the soft palate vibrates, usually due to a narrowing of the airway space around the retropalatal area (i.e. behind the
palate) often combined with a lack of tone of the tissues in that area. It kinda implies that the air that you breath is having difficulty getting through that pathway...
If it were me, I'd try to get a sleep study done. If the apnea turned out to be VERY mild (and its the snoring that's the main problem),
I might consider somnoplasty of the palate. This might help solve both the very mild apnea and also the snoring. But that's me. And once again that's only if the apnea is VERY mild and it's mostly about eliminating the snoring. But if the apnea is mild-to-severe, I'd first get on the CPAP machine. (You can always keep your options open as to what to do in the future, but first you need "first aid" (i.e. CPAP)...

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