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Re: 6 month Post MMA/GA update

Posted by sleepy-in-seattle on June 09, 2006 at 08:32:29:

In Reply to: Re: 6 month Post MMA/GA update posted by Questforsleep on June 09, 2006 at 01:26:47:

Yes, I had a UPPP, tonsillectomy and turbinate reduction in 2000.

Turbinate reduction helped me breathe well through my nose for the first time in decades. This had an indirect, but large, positive effect on CPAP effectiveness and exercise motivation.

Tonsillectomy - hard to say. I had very large tonsils, so it took out one possible vector for overcrowding.

UPPP - seemed to open up the throat and helped my OSA for a year and then things began to revert. By two years post-surgery, I was back at severe OSA.

None of these surgeries helped my BP or weight in a long-term fashion, other than possibly retarding their inexorable climb.

The only one I would *definitely* do again is the turbinates.

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