Re: Apnea associated with tongue (mainly)

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Re: Apnea associated with tongue (mainly)

Posted by Stewart on October 05, 2001 at 10:24:26:
In Reply to: Re: Apnea associated with tongue (mainly) posted by Zappa on October 04, 2001 at 21:27:55:
My Doctor called it a "Base of Tounge Reduction", but I think it was more like a partial midline glossectomy. Basically he cut a v-shaped groove down the center of my tounge base.
It was extremely painful. Swallowing was really difficult for about 12 days and when combined with the UPPP it was even worse.
I had a UPPP last year.
This time he did a "touch-up" on my UPPP with a GA, HS and tounge reduction. The first UPPP was nowhere near as painful as the surgery in August.
He told me that most of the pain was from the Tounge portion of the surgery and that the pain from the GA and HS procedures were minor by comparison.
Before the surgery in August, he told me that my tounge was the main source of obstruction and that he might not be able to take enough of it off at one time.
Apparently, because the tounge is a big muscle, if he excised too much tissue some weird scar tissue might form and make the problem worse than before the procedure.
If I decide to have a second tounge reduction done, it would mean 3-4 days in the hospital (with at least 1 in ICU) and a recovery time of 2-3 weeks.
I was hoping that he could do a series of Somnoplasty procedures on the base of the tounge but he says it there is way too much tissue to do this.
I would really like to get a second oppinion on the somno though.
HTH,
Stewart

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Re: Apnea associated with tongue (mainly) Zappa 20:54 10/05/01 (1)

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