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My cpap does not run if I'm not wearing it. My breathing triggers it to run and if I take it off it will stop. The information it is keeping track of includes your breathing pattern. That said, I haven't been wearing mine. /sigh I had a sleep study done 2 years ago and was diagnosed with mild apnea. Nothing like what I've heard other had. I wore it pretty religiously for quite a while but then got a bad head cold and couldn't wear it. And I never put it back on. :thumbup: I like to sleep all curled up in my pillows at times and I could not do it with that hose coming out of my face. Now I'm starting this journey and I have this expensive paperweight sitting at the side of my bed and they are going to ask me about my sleep habits and sleep studies and I'm going to have to admit I'm non-compliant.

You SHOULD be tooting your own horn! You have a lot to be proud of. You are really an inspiration to those of us looking at starting this journey. Keep up the good work!:cool:

Wow, I was just at my first info session on the 12th and that is exactly the "info" I was getting. These doctors are very experienced in all these procedures, are part of all the bariatric surgery boards, run hospital departments that are centers for excellence. I went in very confident about using them, but they VERY much seemed to downplay the band and push bypass. They called the bypass the "gold standard" of wls in the USA. I asked about statistics and such from Europe and Australia as I know they have been banding a lot longer. Banding is considered the "gold standard" there. The doctors told us it "was" the standard and that more and more people are getting bypass done there. I don't want to have to travel for my surgery, these doctors are at one of my local hospitals. Then again, I'm not sure just how much support they will be if they would prefer to do the more invasive surgeries. LinKo where are you at? Wouldn't that be crazy if we were at the same session? You can pm me also.

Hello All, I'm Gayla from Neenah. I'm just starting this journey. I've been to a seminar at Midwest Bariatrics in Neenah with Dr Georgen and Dr Wasco. I have an appointment with my PCP in two weeks to get started on the pre-approval diet thing. Has anyone here had surgery at with this group?