Hi Dana: The doc didn't guarantee success. He told me the same thing every other doc has. 40%-60%. Good odds? well, not really....could be better. But it's better than a mask that ends up on the floor next to my bed 100% of the time.
I had my preregistration today and the nurse doing the registration said that she thinks it should be successful (and yes, i'm taking it with a grain of salt). she said that a lot of times the apneas are caused by people who are significantly overweight (i could stand to lose 20 lbs or so...but i wouldn't consider myself morbidly obese). The success % of 40-60% is skewed down a bit by having those people in the result set. I'm not going in with rose-colored glasses. I'm hopeful...but not necessarily optimistic. Well, let's call it cautionsly optimistic. Surviving would be the minimal I'd hope for :) I know that any surgery has inherent risks...but relatively speaking, this is a fairly straightforward procedure that should be done in an hour. It'll be painful for a week to a week and a half. I'm willing to risk that if it means that I can sleep on my own. They're doing a Septoplasty, Turbinate Reduction and a UPPP. Hopefully between the 3, things will be fixed. At the very least, maybe they'll just be "better". I appreciate the concern as well as the advice you've provided in the past. I'll let you know how things go (pain factor, and after a follow up sleep study in the not-too-distant future...whether or not it was met with any degree of success). On 3/31/06, Dana Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm. I seem to be in this really wierd state where I am catching up on all > the REM sleep I haven't had in who knows how many years. Lots of really vivid > dreams about RIP and static routing and stuff. Not anxious dreams, just very > busy. Meanwhile, my damn nose hurts all the time, my sleep doc considers that > a primary care problem, and the primary care doctor doesn't think it's > important. ::sigh:: > > Charlie, out there on the support lists they are recommending that people > considering surgery ask their doctors to define "success" when it comes to > outcome. Apparently a lot of the time it's "the patient survived." I am not > sure I would want to go through major surgery for that. As with all internet > medical stuff, I would take this as something to ask questions about, not > gospel, bu tthe guy saying this runs AWAKE... > > > > >I'd like to do that but I'm not exactly sure where it was before. These > >guys here said that my settings were 14/8 (for a bipap) and they lowered > >them to 11/7. But I seem to remember the top number going to 16 sometimes. > >Anyway, I might just go ahead and make these changes myself. I need to find > >out how on the internet. > > > >- Matt > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Charlie Griefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "CF-Community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> > >Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:47 AM > >Subject: Re: More on sleep apnea > > > > > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:202446 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
