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Posted by mark123 on July 02, 2008 at 16:26:54:

Hi folks~
I've been reading these blogs for some time and really appreciate all of your responses. What I'm wondering is, if CPAP doesn't seem to be helping the symptoms and a dental appliance didn't reduce my RDI significantly, will surgery help? I'm fairly sure, based on 3 sleep studies, that all I have going on is OSA, but I haven't had any relief in 5 months (since the symptoms of daytime fatigue started). My doc keeps telling me to use CPAP and I am now on my 3rd go with trying it again, new mask and new pressure, but I'm still not feeling any relief in the EDS.

I'm 38, was very active before this, not overweight and the apnea is mild unless I'm in REM, then it's borderline severe (RDI 30).

I'm wondering if any of you were successful in USING CPAP, but felt no benefit, so moved to surgery and felt better?

BTW, I'm near Stanford and will go there or Kasey Li's other clinic to do any work.

Thanks for any thoughts here!
Mark

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