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Re: New here - What is the next step?

Posted by gr8_mstree on January 27, 2004 at 07:56:04:

In Reply to: Re: New here - What is the next step? posted by UKmum on January 26, 2004 at 14:56:53:

Hi mum,
I am no doctor, so take this with a grain of salt... I understand that the jerking can be spontaneous arousals that may not be as obvious as a full "stop breathing" episodes. People are usually not even aware of these, but the sleep quality is horrible. I had around 200 of those a night prior to surgeries / dental appliance. The snoring is another sign sometimes...
It is common to have surgery just for snoring - usually the removal of the uvula and maybe some of the soft pallet. However, it's not 100%. I had both removed plus my toncils, and still snored until I started wearing my dental appliance. Very frustrating.
If you are willing to go that route, I would go ahead and invest in a sleep study because it's probably 1/5 the cost of surgery and will let you know if you need more done while they're "in there cutting"...
You don't quite fit the "profile" either... very young. Most of the people I see in the sleep studies are older and greatly overweight. Let's here it for us young ones!

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