Hey! Does VSG ''cure'' sleep apnea?

Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. My doc fully expects that I'll be able to abandon my machine, but my last sleep study says that I haven't improved a ton yet. Of course, I had pneumonia last year and I developed asthma as a result. The doc and I are both waiting anxiously to see if further weight loss improves this issue.

My sleep apnea is gone ... Yay!

I'm a Registered sleep tech, So I do sleep studies on people for a living. I can tell you, of the repeat patients I have seen who went through WLS, Probably 70% are able to completely go off of CPAP when they reach their goal weight, and the other 30% get significant reductions to their pressure settings, making it much easier to tolerate. It's definatly a good thing!

I have not gone back in and had the sleep study again, but my family complains that they can no longer tell if I'm asleep or not because I rarely snore and if I do it is light. I also no longer gasp for air 10 times a minute. Mine was SEVERE!

I cannot believe I was living like that! I was so sleep deprived that I should have been dead.

I'm a Registered sleep tech, So I do sleep studies on people for a living. I can tell you, of the repeat patients I have seen who went through WLS, Probably 70% are able to completely go off of CPAP when they reach their goal weight, and the other 30% get significant reductions to their pressure settings, making it much easier to tolerate. It's definatly a good thing!

I was never able to tolerate the BIPAP. The sleep study was so tortuous to me that I'm afraid to get it done again -- that maybe my family is putting me on and they will try to put that mask on me again. Intellectually I know it won't happen, but I think I've developed a phobia.

My sleep apnea went away after I had a tonsillectomy.

I just found out that I have a mild case of sleep apnea this week. I'm not very happy, so I hope that it goes away. The Pulmonoligist seems to think that it will.

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